3×6 Bee

Got Mail?

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It is entirely possible that I might need to go to the post office either today or tomorrow…

What you are seeing starting on the left is a batch of my dad’s favorite cookies – I would explain why but I am super emotional about it and I don’t want to cry as I write.

Then you see the quilt I blogged about yesterday for my new Modern Quilt Guild Chapter and the quilt I made for my mom…which I don’t think I ever showed finished pictures of (note to self, photograph it and do that!). On top of the quilts are 6 bee blocks that need to be packaged up.

Next to that is a pile of already packaged stuff. Another 6 bee blocks, a thank you note to an amazing friend who is just so supportive, wonderful and thoughtful, a swap package from a monthly fat quarter swap group (if you are interested leave me a comment with your flickr name and I will invite you to the group) and some charms from a swap that I need to send because I can’t resist a good charm swap. LOL

So yeah…I think I need to go to the post office, what do you think?

Happy Thursday!

 

3 x 6 Bee – Star Hive Blocks

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Hi Everyone! Sorry I haven’t been around much this week! I’ve been working on my Season By Hand project and that has consumed my time. That and the fact that summer showed up this week and Anne and I have been busy enjoying the sun.  Oh yeah, and she decided to grow up when I wasn’t looking, I registered her for pre-school on Tuesday. She was excited, I was ready to cry! LOL

Last month I finished my star hive blocks for the 3×6 Bee. I really need to get both sets of my blocks off in the mail, but that hasn’t happened yet. Luckily I have until July 15th to get them mailed.  For the star hive I decided to do the hexie star that I did a tutorial for back in November 2012. I love how they turned out.

A quick apology, I am terribly behind on email again, I will catch up over the weekend! I promise!

What have you all been up to? Don’t forget you have until Friday to link up your goal for A Lovely Year of Finishes!

Let’s Get Acquainted Link Up

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Plum and June

I’m so excited to be hosting the Let’s Get Acquainted Monday Link Up Party this week! Thank you so much Beth for asking me to host! If you haven’t been to Plum and June before, you need to visit! Beth is incredibly talented and she was the mind behind last year’s incredibly fun and successful Let’s Get Acquainted Blog Hop.

I wasn’t quite sure what to write about when I sat down to write this post. I found Beth’s hop along when it was about a month into it last year, I quickly joined and had so much fun visiting all of the other newbie bloggers out there. I’ve now been blogging for just over 2 years and designing for about the same amount of time. One of the things I have been focused on this year is FINISHES! Last year I was talking to my friend Shanna from Fiber of All Sorts and we both realized that we were always talking about Works in Progress but never about Finishes, we decided to change that! This year Shanna and I have been hosting A Lovely Year of Finishes and I can proudly say I have had one finish for each month this year!

Since I blogged about my big finish for May yesterday, I thought I would show what I have been working on all week, bee blocks for my sampler hive in the 3×6 hive. The block design is an original and there will be a tutorial for it later this week. If you like it, I hope you will come back!

I love doing bees as it forces me to work with color combo’s I would have never previously considered and I generally fall in love with the new combinations. Are you the same way?

Now it is your turn! Show us what you have been working on this week!

1. Link up any recent sewing/quilting post.
2. In your post or on your blog, please include either a text link or a button letting people know about this link up and link it back to this post.
3. Visit at least the two bloggers who link up before you and everyone who visits you from this post.
4. When the link tool asks for your name, enter your favorite color to use in a quilt. I lean towards blues.

 



3×6 Sampler Hive Test Block

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I don’t know what drove me to do it…but I signed up for the 3×6 bee again. On top of that I signed up for 2 different hives! LOL  I guess I just felt like I didn’t have enough going on.

When I do these bees I like to do a nice mix of my own original designs for blocks and then classic designs. For the Sampler Hive that I am in, I opted to design my own block. Here is the mock up:

And here is my test block.

I’m pretty happy with it, I like how it gives me the opportunity to show case 5 different prints and frames them beautifully.  I’m think of doing this up as a tutorial…would anyone be interested?  There will be 6 more of these made in the future.

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