November 

Rossanna's instructions to make a liberated 9-patch was easy enough.  Adding the recycled candy wrapper flowers and embellishment kind of threw me a bit.  In the end, I like the result.

September 
Liberated log cabin for Andrea - I love the way this type of block looks in a quilt.  It harkens back to string quilts and using what you have.















July 
Small paper-pieced fans for Judith.  The straight lines of these really show how easy paper-piecing can be.

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

Here's a labor-intensive bee quilt I finished today.  I probably should have taken pictures as I went along putting this together.  It is made from 24 blocks - all from two Modern Blocks bees on Flickr based on the book Modern Blocks.  In the book, the block is called 'Stone Cathedral.'  I supplied the solid gray background and each member sewing in their choice of pink 'windows' and gave me small squares to use when putting the blocks together.  What surprised me about this quilt was it's weight.  All that folded fabric adds up.  All it needs is a label.

I tried to get some better photos of my New York Beauty quilt since I finished the binding and label.  I have it hanging in my living room.  I love looking at it.
 The quilting was done in yellow thread.

I'm not the biggest fan of hand-sewing, so I kind of cheat by catching two sides of the label when I sew on the binding.