I just couldn’t resist

I saw Sherie of A Quilting Life speaking about the July block for her block of the month and I decided to make it up for my Stash bee quilt. I decided to use all of my chosen colours - red, orange and yellow. There are some oldies in the mix including the grid fabric which I bought in Boston in 2019, the red is by Aneela Hoey and the orange is by Elizabeth Hartman.

I now have three blocks made despite it not yet being my month to be the bee mama.

Long term WIP

 

This foundation pieced skull quilt designed by Helen Creasey has been completed for a few years. It is now out of the drawer and ready to be Graffiti Quilted. My plan is to multiple different pink threads for the background and quilt a different motif in each section. Energy is what I lack to get projects finished, so I plan to quilt two matching sections each day and hope to see some good progress over the next few months.

August #Stash bee blocks

I thought I was the bee mama for July but it turns out my turn is August. I am ready for my turn. I am asking for star blocks in reds, orange and yellows on a low volume background. I plan to make the blocks into an autumnal ladder quilt.

The first sample block that I made was the May Block of the Month pattern from A Quilting Life. The background is by Sally Kelly.

My second block is a simple Ohio Star on an OG Alison Glass text print background, and the centre square is an old Carolyn Friedlander print.

I am looking forward to receiving blocks in August.

Honey of a Tiny Town Framed

 

I picked up Honey of a Tiny Town from the framers on Monday, and I'm really pleased with how it has turned out. I didn't want to pick out the brown or the mustard yellow, so we chose a white painted frame with a blue mount.

Moon bunny by Sew Quirky

 

Number 11 was selected as our group UFO challenge number for June and for me that was Moon Bunny by Sew Quirky. A small project but with a lot of details. It was made more difficult by not being able to find my Teflon foot so instead I stuck washi tape to the bottom of my open toed applique foot. I mentioned it in passing to Lizzie when we did sewed together over Facebook messenger a few days ago and lo and behold, she has two! At least I hadn't purchased a replacement.

I used hot fix rhinestones in three places on this piece - one replaced a French knot for the eye on the stork scissors, two for the inner of the eyes and many gold rhinestones to cover the mess that I made of the stars.

Then it was time to put it all together which according to the instructions included a lot of glue and being patient whilst it dried. I didn't gather the zipper tape and I didn't glue it down either. It's not perfect but it's finished ready for our July UFO which I hope is something simpler.

Stash bee July blocks

 

We received our instructions for the July block early, so instead of finishing the project with a deadline, I decided to have a play with this block. We were do use cool fabrics on one side and warm fabrics on the other side. I raided my bags of predominantly orange and turquoise scraps and pieced the scraps together as I went. I love the pear print which I think was from a Sew Hot scrap pack in a retreat goody bag.

I now need to work on my deadline project!

Primrose Cottage winter quaker

Having finished A Honey of a Tiny Town, it was time to release another WIP from the box. I grabbed this project which was a Freebie Friday chart. I have made a decent start but not a big start so I will work on it during June and July. I should probably chose some ric rac to finish it or purchase some if necessary, so that I'm ready to go.