Rossanna assigned each of us a word that we had to include in our block - mine was "Wisdom".
There is mistyfuse carnage all over my sewing table! I used this as a basis for the applique shapes.

Will bring it to you at tomorrow's meeting, Rossanna! Hope you like it :)

Every month, it's so fun to see what each queen has chosen for the bee members to make.  A lot of times, it's blocks that I have never seen before, and I imagine how fantastic they will look with all the other blocks in the finished quilt.

I spent some of Thanksgiving break pressing HSTs and got blocks on the design wall from the Dutch Rose block made from vintage sheets.  Now, I'm going to make the most of this icy, snowy weather by working out sashing and borders on my bee quilt.

Fractured Triangle for Andrea

I was terrified when I got Maria's package in the mail. I've never sewn curves, and never planned to. When I saw her at Quilters Take Manhattan I was like "I got your envelope... you want me to sew WHAT?!?!?".

I will be bringing Deirdre's July block (Klimpt) and Andrea's September block (Fractured Triangles) tomorrow. Mailed Emily's circles block from August... no photo though. See you all there!

I am relieved to see I was not the only one who struggled with this block. I almost had to ask for replacement fabric from the QB too, and since they're vintage sheets I didn't even know if it was possible! Luckily my cutting errors were salvageable... at first I cut the wrong print for the center, but then luckily it turned out that I had to cut that fabric to the same size as the center piece anyway. BIG "phew" moment there.
Then as I was squaring up a green 5" piece to cut 2 1/2" squares from (to make the HSTs), I accidentally cut one side to 4 3/4"... d'oh!! I was able to fudge the 4 less-than-perfect HSTs in the block, and hopefully Kim will be able to fudge the 4 corresponding mini ones for her sawtooth border. ;)

I couldn't find a good spot in my apartment to photograph this but liked how it looked in the window!

Here's a "normal" picture of it...

Leftover mini-HSTs for sawtooth border as requested

Here is my May block for E. She requested a modern Sunbonnet Sue. Never appliqued before so was a little apprehensive... but after watching a couple tutorials on youtube things fell into place. Good excuse to break out the MistyFuse I scored at Quilters Take Manhattan last year!