Even though I haven't been doing a lot of sewing lately, I have managed to keep up with my bee blocks, and this month's were considerably easier than last month's and I was able to whip them up pretty quickly, which was a nice change.
First up is for "Mad Maddy" in the Bee Connected group. She requested these lovely paper pieced sailboat blocks for a baby quilt she is making for a friend. These blocks were rather easy (thank goodness I have done paper piecing before!) She requested two, and the only real rule, was to use the cloud fabric as the sky, and that the clouds go in the right direction (a.k.a. not vertically) and even though that sounds simple enough, amazingly it was quite challenging. I felt the first two blocks I made for her weren't wonderful, so I added some of my own fabric and made her a third block just for good measure. I hope she likes them, it certainly will be an adorable quilt.
First up is for "Mad Maddy" in the Bee Connected group. She requested these lovely paper pieced sailboat blocks for a baby quilt she is making for a friend. These blocks were rather easy (thank goodness I have done paper piecing before!) She requested two, and the only real rule, was to use the cloud fabric as the sky, and that the clouds go in the right direction (a.k.a. not vertically) and even though that sounds simple enough, amazingly it was quite challenging. I felt the first two blocks I made for her weren't wonderful, so I added some of my own fabric and made her a third block just for good measure. I hope she likes them, it certainly will be an adorable quilt.
The next set are for "bluebirdluxe" in the Quilting newBEES group. She used the Taffy Go Round pattern from A Crafty Fox, tutorial HERE. These blocks were really easy to put together, and feature a raw edge circle in the middle, which was also really easy to do. These are stunning blocks, and are going to make a lovely Christmas quilt.
This last set isn't for September, but rather October, and it is really nice to get them done super early! Erin "toerintx" sent her fabric off early, and since I was on a roll, I went ahead and got these done too! These blocks are part of the Always Bee Learning group, and Erin wanted everyone to try triangulations. If you haven't heard of that before, go look it up, because neither had I, and honestly I don't want to try to explain, but basically it is another neat way of making a lot of half square triangles. I really like this method and feel like these blocks are the most accurate hst I have ever made. Erin only had one real rule, and that was to use one brown print and one cream/white print in each block, but we got to decide on the layout of both blocks. Since I was feeling rather brain dead the day I put these together, I decided on a super simple layout for both, and hope my other bee members go a little more adventurous than me! If not, it will still be a stunning quilt!
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