Bee Blocks for Darci

I'm having a great time in my first virtual quilting bee - Bee Tweet.

For June Darci asked for wonky stars. I've made an entire wonky star quilt before and I really love doing these blocks. They are a lot of fun! I had a hard time not making more than I did.

Sewing stuff

Not much quilting has been going on around here. Lots and lots of cutting, but not much sewing. I think I have started cutting out 5 quilts in the last month. Strange. Do you ever get on a cutting kick? I hope to show you those projects soon.

But in the meantime, I have been sewing a few little things.

Like these bibs for my sister-in-law's new baby. I love those little foxes! I used this tutorial but I didn't follow the instructions so I used a binding to fix it.

And these ties for my sister's upcoming wedding. All my boys will have a tie and I'm making more for cousins. There will be 12 when I'm all done. Thanks to Erin for her little boy tie tutorial roundup. I used this one and this one. And they were both great!

What are you working on today?

pin cushion swap

Our Modern Quilt Guild had a pin cushion swap last month. It was a lot of fun! And all the pincushions were really cute.

I made this as one long rainbow originally, but then I thought it was too long. So I cut it in half. I liked it so much I made one (2) for myself too.

I invited a friend to come to our meeting and since she didn't have time to make a pincushion - I offered to make one for her to bring. It's from Heather Bailey's turtle pattern.

Here is the one I got to keep! (LOVE IT)

And here are all of them in the group.

I have been doing something

Even though I haven't been blogging about it.

I made a quilt for my son's Kindergarten teacher. She put up with a lot this year (from my son and others in the class) so I thought I'd let her know how much I appreciate all she does!

Most of the squares are Amy Butler - Midwest Modern. They are 2 inches finished and so is the sashing. The quilting was done by me on my home machine. It is a lap quilt (around 60x60) - which I have never made before. I love how it turned out and am planning to make a bigger version for me.

Sew, Mama, Sew Giveaway Winner!

Wow! Thanks for all the comments everyone! It was fun reading about your favorite color combinations. There are so many good ones! I should tell you that my favorite standby is blue and orange (periwinkle and a creamy orange). I also love a good rainbow quilt and I think I'm going to have to do a grey and orange quilt soon. In the comments I think the two most common color combos were red/aqua and yellow/grey.

I wish I had a piece of this cute fabric for everyone. But all I have is this one fat quarter. And the winner of that one fat quarter is . . . . .

Amy - who said...

Either gray and yellow or turquoise an red. Thanks for the chance.


Congratulations Amy! I'll be emailing you to get your address.

Thanks again everyone else for entering!

Sew, Mama, Sew Giveaway Day!

GIVEAWAY NOW CLOSED

Welcome to all the readers coming over from Sew, Mama, Sew! Hope you're having fun with all the great giveaways.

I'm giving away a fat quarter (18" x 22") of Heather Ross's pink VW buses from the Lightning Bugs line!



To enter just leave a comment on this post telling what your favorite color combination is right now. This giveaway is open until midnight (MST), May 25 and I will ship anywhere!

Good luck!

Erin's Bee Block

I have recently joined my first online quilting bee! (I was part of the [3x6] sampler quilt mini bee for a bit, but that's not really the same kind of bee.)

It's called Bee Tweet and there are some seriously great quilters in there! I'm so excited to meet new quilty friends and make blocks that I've never made.

Erin's up for the first month - May. She wanted a scrappy block like Aneela's. Here's mine.