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Sunday, February 2, 2014

Scrappy Nine Patches for Kim

Kim is this month's QB and handed out her packages yesterday at the meeting! Sewed mine up today...

I love how this block came out! Only one problem though... Kim's instructions said the block should finish at 12 1/2", but mine came out 12 1/8". I used my 1/4" foot but I was switching from another foot when I started this block, and I'm thinking maybe my needle position wasn't exactly where it needs to be. I measured my seams and many of them appear to be just a HAIR over 1/4". I guess with this many seams in the block, a hair could make that much of a difference.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!! Kim, I can re-do it if you send more of the red... and maybe you can throw this one on the back? ;) Unless you had planned to trim all after receiving :/ Doubt it.

I will email you now.

Thursday, December 5, 2013

Caught Up.....for now

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

Story of You for Maria

LIVE for Rossanna

Sunday, November 3, 2013

Mod Bee 3 October Block for Maria - "Story of You"

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?!?!?".

Anyway, my initial fear quickly diminished after I read (and re-read) QB's clear instructions and visited the resources she provided. She even made fancy templates for us!

Maria asked that we use fabrics that represent us in some way. I love black & white and can't resist a nice graphic b&w print. But I also love color and the way a hint of color looks when you introduce it to an overwhelmingly b&w scheme. Also pink. And pandas. Who can resist pandas?

Will mail this week. Hope you like it Maria!

Friday, October 4, 2013

Mod Bee 3 July & Sep Blocks

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!

Sunday, June 23, 2013

Mod Bee 3 June Block for Kimberly - Dutch Rose

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

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.