NYC Metro Modern Quilters Guild: Sun bonnet Sue

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Saturday, July 6, 2013

Sunbonnet Who?

Hi all,
I'm playing catch-up with blocks for my mod bee queens.....!

For May, E asked us to do a modern day Sunbonnet Sue or Sam. She gave us each a background fabric and a few pieces in a yellow, gray, and white palette. As soon as I saw it, I thought of this Jay McCarroll brick print in my scrap drawer and making a "graffiti sue." She may not be the most upstanding citizen, but quite the artist in her own right, don't you think?

I also added a little embroidery for the spray! Hope you like her, E!

And for June, Kimberly sent us vintage sheet scraps for this pretty block:

I agree with Chrissie D - this is a fun and pretty easy block to sew, but even when you chain piece, you are back and forth to the iron like a madwoman....and I had my iron right next to me! haha!

Anyway, with the vintage sheets, this should turn out to be an incredibly soft and sweet quilt.....can't wait to see it all together!

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Mod Bee May - Modern Sunbonnet Sue

I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one that struggled a bit for inspiration on this one. I found this image on a google search and just liked it. She's cute, but she's got some attitude.

Sunday, May 26, 2013

Mod Bee 3 - May Block for E

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!

I came across The Sun Sets on Sunbonnet Sue while browsing around for inspiration (randomly found it here in a book called Feminist messages: coding in women's folk culture). I was really tickled by the whole thing and showed the excerpt & subversive quilt to my boyfriend. We started bouncing ideas around for what my block should be. He said that Sue looked like Kenny from South Park in that quilt. Then he mentioned Darth Vader and I ran with it.

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Loving bein the Queen Bee for May

So my challenge was an up-to-date sun bonnet Sue or Sam. And you have already seen the one by Kimberly... The girl is on fire with that one.

I just got another from Maria G. This one rocks complete with the beats headphones... Soo looking forward to the others...

Friday, May 17, 2013

Girl on Fire

This block was quite a challenge for me. I really struggled with finding inspiration. I looked through Google images, Pinterest, and Etsy only to find thousands of images of traditional Sunbonnet Sue. I wanted to make something original yet recognizable My inspiration was Katniss from The Hunger Games. I hope my translation works and that E likes it. I used a blanket stitch around all the raw edges and thread-painted the bow and arrow.

Here's my sketch/pattern (in reverse):

May 2013 Bee Block for E - A Modern Sunbonnet Sue

My take on a modern Sunbonnet Sue for E.

I've written more about how I made the block (a simple sort of tute) over at my blog made by ChrissieD if you want to take a look :)