A finished Quilt!

                     Signatures are on the 3 squares that surround the center white square.

You Ladies are Awesome!!!!!  Love, Love, LOVE it!  My quilt will be living in my family room, to be snuggled under and gazed at over and over again.   Thanks so much :)

Stephanie's Blocks... Finally!

I've been so all over the place (mentally and literally!) that I completely forgot about Stephanie's blocks till last week. I'm REALLY sorry Stephanie!!!

I finished them last night! Yaaay! I kind of wanna keep them...

The first block was a breeze, and I'm glad I started with it.

The second block took a bit of math to figure out but it was definitely fun to work on. And I promise you that it's square... I don't know why it photographed all wonky like that!

And since the sig block had little bubble prints, I decided to sign within the bubbles lol I hope you don't mind that, Steph!

Anyway they'll be in the post today! Phew!

Bee-Hind.

These are my last blocks for Bee Beautiful. Some of them have been finished for months and just sitting on the end of my ironing board, I started hoarding them like the rest of my fabrics! oops.

This was a great bee! You are all lovely ladies with endless creativity,

inspiring lives and projects.

Thank you for including me, I couldn't be happier with all of the great techniques I've learned and friends that I have made....

Keep your eyes peeled for my quilt as you go quilt that you all graciously contributed to... My plans for a queen sized quilt have faded (along with my QAYG stamina) and I hope to have a generous lap quilt for my couch in the next couple of months. How the heck did you do it Penny? You are a QAYG rockstar!

Vicki, Michelle, Amy and Stephanie- I hope you like your blocks! They were all fun to put together, gorgeous fabrics all around. I will be sending them out tomorrow morning, Monday at the latest. Thank you for your patience...

Thanks again everyone!

~erica

Half of the way there...

I've received about half of my blocks so far, and I'm just so thrilled with all of these awesome squares!!! This is going to be one happy quilt, and I can't believe it will be mine! Thanks everyone :)

My Bee Blocks

 I am so happy with my Bee Blocks! Here's what I've got so far.

 I will be sashing them with a lot more white, but here you can at least get a general idea of what's going on.

You all rock.

Happiest Days!

h a p p i e s t   d a y s

With warm thoughts, hugs and misses, 

from my house to yours

And many great wishes

for a

sparkling

New Year

Natalie Barnes

b e y o n d   t h e   r e e f

Holidays - a time to catch up

The holidays.

...a time for catching up.

With friends, with family...

With quilting bees?????

 You betcha.

 What better way to say you care?

 After all, the bobbins have been wound, the machine has been oiled...

 You're working on finishing all of your hand made gifts, right?

 So - thank you, all of you in beebeautiful

for a wonderful year of new techniques, new fabrics and new friends.

Happiest Holidays

and

Happiest Days.

Natalie Barnes.

Late but Alive?

Or perhaps I'm better off not admittting I'm still alive as I'm three months behind on the bee blocks and haven't visited my friends for ages!  I wonder how many posts my Google Reader can hold before exploding.  Sorry!

But I'm loving making the dresden - and that yellow/green fabric on the bottom right is fabulous.  I just wish life would cooperate and understand that a non-crafting Angela is a very grumpy Angela. 

December's Block: It's Hip to be Square

It's December! I can't believe we've come to the last month of the bee, crazy huh?! Well, the time sure does fly when you're having fun! :)

Ok, onto the blocks...

I saw this quilt a while back (Jan 2010) on Rebekah's blog, it is made by the empty bobbin (don't know her actual name). I just fell in love with this!

Inspiration Quilt

So here's what I'm thinking...

I would love,

2 blocks measuring 12" square unfinished.

One block a very simple Log Cabin square, with one square surrounded by another square, surrounded by another and so on.

Example...

For the second I'd love it if you got a bit more creative and make a 12" block with multiple squares, as many squares as you'd like, or not very many, that's up to you.

Some Examples....

I prefer straight and simple compared to wonky.

The fabrics I chose are a few of my favorites with some coordinating yellow, blues, light gray and greens thrown in, and for some contrast Kona Charcoal and Kona white crush.

2 blocks I made

A little helpful tip... if you don't like math like me, I just made the first basic 12" square (mine is actually a tad larger then 12" and needs to be trimmed) then used that as a guideline for laying out my small squares. It was nice to be able to eyeball it, instead of doing the math to end up with a 12 inch square.

A few common questions:

1. SCRAPS:: Please send the scraps back, I plan to use them in the quilt, plus I had no idea how much fabric would be enough so I think I sent a lot.

2. SIGGY BLOCK:: I sent everyone a separate strip of fabric to sign your name on. I will use those strips to make one large square for the back.

3. ADDING FABRIC FROM YOUR STASH:: I'm trying to stay with the colors I sent you. You may add fabric from your stash that is modern and is a lemon yellow, pale gray, medium blue or lime green.

Any questions??????????????? There's a lot going on lately, so my brain is mush, I'm sure I've missed something :)

I'll be shipping your fabric out tomorrow! Happy Sewing :)

Log Cabin's for Amy

Love the red fabrics, thanks for letting me play with them :)

Hope you like them Amy!

catching up little by little

I'm still behind... but little by little I'm catch up on some bee blocks.

Vicki's block in progress

and a blurry photo of it done

Here is Vicki's block w/ the siggy block and sashing strips.

Michelle's block in progress

almost done... time for the hand sewing.

Amy's block #1

playing with fabrics to make a 2nd block for her

the result of block #2

Amy's blocks done.

Better Late Than Never... ?

I owe a couple of people apologies! I'm super tardy on my September and October blocks because life has a way of bulldozing your safe, happy routine. So Vicki and Michelle, I'm really, really sorry!!! I hope you like your blocks :)

Vicki's block... so fun to do! And LOTS of points to match! I just loved all the saturated colours.

Michelle's block... I'd never made a dresden plate before (though I've wanted to for the longest time!) and this was both scary and fun to make. I ended up machine stitching it, and I'm really not great at curved sewing, so Michelle, please don't look at it too closely. Thanks, I appreciate it.

While we're at it, Vicki, don't look at yours too closely either :P

Amy's large block... I have a special place in my heart for the improv log cabin, so this was right up my alley :) I tried to keep them simple and clean while injecting some wonk here and there. I signed this one after I was done with the pics.

The smaller block... I went heavy on the MoMo with this block! It ended up being not so much smaller (like 11" unfinished) because I got carried away and didn't stop to check the sizing!

All the blocks will be on their way shortly!

- Audrie