Yikes and more Yikes

 
Yikes, I went to turn off my laptop at 12:45 a.m. and realized I forgot to do my Monday post. More on why in a minute.

I decided to load another small quilt onto the quilt frame.  This was made in February 2023. 

Simple grid lines that took no time to quilt on the frame.

Then I chased a squirrel and made another March themed wall hanging.

Loaded on the frame and testing thread colors.

The shamrock is a free tutorial pattern from Lake Girl Quilts. I made it with a fat quarter ombre green I found when I was searching for fabric for another project. 

The colors are little dark in the picture. This was an easy, quick, fun project. 

A new Project Quilting challenge was released on Sunday. This is where the second "yikes" comes in. The challenge was Follow Your Arrow.  

Okay, after thinking about it for a bit I had an idea. Sunday, I found a pattern, pulled the fabric and cut everything out. Yesterday I started sewing. After a few interruptions during the day, I had enough blocks made to start laying it out on my design wall.

Ewwww. Neither the red and blue blocks or the design looked good with the animal print. I tried at least six other prints and a couple of different layouts and didn't like any of them. I stopped at 12:44 a.m. - see first "yikes" above.

This morning I decided that everything was going into the scrap bins and something would be made with them another day. Now I need to decide if I'm going to skip this week's challenge or make something else. I'll do that tomorrow.