Rainbow Scrap Challenge and some Knitting

Blue is the colour of the month for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge for January.  I have been participating in this challenge for a few years now and I have still not run out of scraps to use each month.  I would like to make three projects this year.  The first one will be these nine patches with 8 blocks made each month.  I have 2 more to make.  You can see that I am making them so that they form a checkerboard when they are sewn together.  These are my light blue blocks and I would like to make some mid-blue blocks as well.  I will get started on those this week.  

My second project will be 10.5" blocks made with HST's.  I don't have enough variety in my light blue scraps to make these with no repeats but that's fine with me. 

The Oxford Quilter's Guild is doing a colour challenge this year--here are my blocks for each month since September.  September - light/lime green; October - orange; November - turquoise and aqua; December - red; and January - purple and magenta.  There will be sashing between the blocks and a border on this quilt to make it baby sized. 

I found a ball of yarn in my sewing room and decided to make a hat this week.  I will be adding a pompom next week when I borrow my friend's pompom maker. 

My daughter is working on the third row of her book blanket.  

I had a couple of friends over to stitch and chat this afternoon.  We were so busy with our projects that I forgot to take pictures.  Carol worked on a crochet blanket and Christine had a cross stitch sampler with her.  I finished off my had and added a few stitches to my cross stitch chicken--not enough to warrant a picture though. 

While out on a walk at the park this week, we came across these squirrels enjoying a feast of seeds that someone had left out on a log for them and the birds. 

Finn is happy to be home again, back in his role as supervisor when my daughter works from home. 

 I will link up with Kathy and Frederique as well as the RSC folks.