Bee Blocks

Gearing up to Strip

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Have I mentioned before that I’m a stripper. Yes, I said Stripper!  And not only that but I joined a group of strippers too!

I got to give my row in person to my fellow stripper Jovanna a couple of weeks ago when I met her and the lovely Shanna in person!  I love meeting my online friends in person. Anne fell instantly in love with the both of them and we had a lovely afternoon together. I also received Shanna’s amazing row in person that day, check it out below!

Holy Buckets Batman, isn’t it just STUNNING!!! Do you see the lovely curved block smack in the middle?  Remember it for later.

The first order of business was to select fabrics. I had to head to my favorite LQS, Ruby Street Quiltworks to pick up a couple of browns, but the rest I had on hand.

Next order of business, test blocks. Shanna’s only requirements are that each block contain a triangle and be between 12″ and 14′ finished.

I started making test blocks using the new Hex N More Ruler by Jaybird Quilts (look for a review to come soon) and I also made one using my wonderful 60 degree diamond ruler.

My favorite test block so far is the one that I designed using the Quick Curve Ruler (look for a tutorial some day soon!)

So here’s my progress so far as a stripper. What do you think?

In other news, my appointment on Monday was thoroughly depressing and I will be having 4 more subsequent follow up appointments over the course of the next 3 weeks.  Wish me luck!

Don’t forget to enter the giveaway from Fat Quarter Shop, it ends tomorrow night!

 

 

October do.Good Stitches Blocks

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As I’m sure you all probably know after a year of me posting…I’m part of the Trust Circle of do.Good Stitches. This month we are doing a girl quilt. We were requested to make Wonky Stars following the tutorial from The Silly BooDilly.  Pink background with white stars. Here are the blocks I created.

Next month I am the quilter for my Circle and I need to figure out what I am doing. I think I would like to do a boy quilt because, well let’s face it, I make an awful lot of girl stuff!

Getting My Curve On

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Have you all seen the Quick Curve Ruler by Jenny Pedigo of Sew Kind of Wonderful?  This ruler is amazing and the tutorials that Jenny has made to go with it are amazing. The ruler allows you to sew curved blocks and to sew them easily. I bought my Quick Curve Ruler back in March at the Sew Expo in Puyallup, WA, but I have to say the idea of sewing curves continued to intimidate the hell out of me. I finally decided to give it a shot in August and I started with a Jenny’s Urban 9 Patch block. I liked my results so much that I decided to make the same block for my 3×6 Bee Hive.

I actually made one more of the teal and purple blocks – I traded blocks with a couple of extra friends who really loved the block.

I won’t be participating in the 4th quarter of 3×6 this year, hopefully just taking this one quarter off so I can work on Christmas sewing and what not.

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

Happy Birthday Mom

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Wednesday was my mom’s birthday. I have said many times before that my mom is my inspiration. I grew up watching her make quilts and sew clothes and I never really had any interest until my niece was born 11 years ago.  This year I had a goal to make my mom a very special quilt. I joined 2 different Bees, 3×6 and 4×5 on Flickr and began collecting blocks from my bee mates and from myself. On her birthday I sent her the following text message:

“Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday dear Mom, Happy Birthday to you!” (with this picture attached)

(no, my logo wasn’t on the text message! LOL)

My original plan had been to sash each block in either white or gray, but there are several different shades of gray and I didn’t want the white blocks to be extra white, so I decided to eliminate sashing altogether.  So my question to you all is…I have 4 extra blocks, I could make one more and add a 6th row. Here are the blocks below at the bottom.

What do you all think? I’m just not sure. My next move will be to add borders, I plan to do a black border around it, mainly to draw in all the different shades of white and gray. Then I will do a medium gray border and then do a solid purple border.

And in case anyone is wondering…my mom loved it!

Sew Bee Blissful September Blocks

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This has been the month of bee blocks for me. I made a total of 16 bee blocks – that is A LOT for me – well for anyone really.  I will share my 3×6 Bee Blocks with you next month, today I thought I would share two blocks with you that I really love, my Sew Bee Blissful blocks for Lyanna from Purple Panda Quilts. She sent us purple and green fabrics with a solid white background fabric and requested that each of us make 2 different star blocks. We each wrote into the flickr group which star we were intending to make so that there would be no duplicates. Here are the two blocks I came up with:

This block is called the Scrap Jar Star and I followed the tutorial by A Little Bit Biased.

I don’t know the name of this star, I saw it in the Tri Recs Ruler pamphlet and used the ruler to recreate it. I love how it turned out.

What have you all been up to?

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