Quilt Bee

 

Back at the beginning of the year I posted about the EB 2012 Quilt Bee . EB is short for Essential Baby, an online parenting forum that I no longer frequent, but a group of us that "met" on there in a quilting forum still "talk" on FaceBook. So we decided to have a Quilt Bee. Of course, just as it started, I broke my leg, slowing down the process a tad! I also lost my sewing mojo for a little while, so some of them had to wait longer than was polite for me to get off my backside and produce the goods! The good news is I am up to date, and just waiting for the last package to arrive from Helen at Patchy Work of Mini Grey. So here is my catch up post on the 2012 EB Quilt Bee.

It kicked off over at AJ's Antics. She had us do some wonky stars for her.

I also did a blue one for her, but I can't find any pictures!

 

Next up was The Humming Cat who had us making granny squares.

Next up was Bec (I think! This is where I ended up with 4 months worth of blocks to catch up on !) who had us make log cabin variations for her. I ended up doing a couple of wonky log cabins

 

Next came Ninny and Maude with this gorgeous cross block. I love the gray in these.

 

 

At this stage I was doing a massive sew session in order to catch up! Next in the languishing line was Stitchin' Skilly who had us do this wonderfully bright and funky block.

As you can see, I miscalculated my cutting and ended up with a big of selvage in the top block. It should sew into the seam line! Great apologies were made.

Tin Whistle came up with a terrifying design that looks way scarier than it actually is.

 

There was lots of breath holding as I prayed the lines would all meet up!

Lastly the was Mand's Nest with these lovely blocks

As for my turn, I asked people to make coin stacks with batiks.

They have started to come back and I'm looking forward to turning them into a quilt top.

Despite my mojo going missing for awhile, I have really enjoyed this quilt bee. I'm hoping we do another one next year as I would like to do another in a small group who are fairly forgiving before I venture into the wider world of quilt bees!

OMG! She sewed!!

Yes, yes, I know, don't fall off your chair. Today I actually managed to put fabric to sewing machine and sew!! Not for as long as I would have liked to, I will admit, but things kept getting in the way - like washing and cooking and Facebook... bloody facebook!

I had two things I wanted to get done today - at least one of the blocks for AJ  for the EB Sewing Bee. The other was to join and sash the blocks I did for a walling hanging at my Creative Club the other day. While I didn't get either done to the extent I wanted, I did get a start!

So first, AJ's block. I needed to sew 5 x 4.5in scrappy blue blocks. After a few false starts, I got it!

Then I had an attack of worries and got concerned this wasn't what she was after, so posted on FB see how it keeps sucking me in?? to confirm I had it right. Apparently I do so next time I can go forth!

As for my wall hanging, I got the blocks joined, but not the sashing done. This time the culprit was picking the kids up from school - or more to the point, off the ferry as a friend bought them home today. Anyway, this is where I am with it now.

From here I need to put sashing on, back it and quilt it - stitch in the ditch. I'll leave the binding until the next Creative Club (first Thursday in March) as it's done a special way and I obviously did not get to it last week! Margaret at Bayside Stitchcraft said it will only take half an hour to finish.

Before I packed up I decided to take a photo of my work area today.

The island bench in our kitchen is perfect. It's higher than a normal bench meaning no sore back and has perfect spot for the ironing board at the end. The laptop was so I could follow AJ's tutorial as well as the occasional check of FB...With temps of 32 and humidity around 71% today, the water was an absolute necessity!
 

2012 Quilting Bee

Hmmm, well this blog has been a little neglected hasn't it? Over twelve months since I have posted. Truthfully it's been over 12 months since I sewed anything! so in an attempt to get my sewing mojo back I have joined an online quilting bee.

The idea is (I think!) each person is assigned a month (mine is September). Before your assigned month, you need to decide on a block and send each member of the quilting bee pattern, fabric and any other resources you think they will need or will help. Each member of the quilting bee will then sew the block and then send it back to you and before you know it, you have enough blocks for a quilt! What an excellent idea! So with any luck, this will help revive my quilting and sewing blog mojo. The other bee participants and their months are:

February - AJ

March - Bec
April - Adds
May - Denni J

June - Joy

July - Milly
August - Mands 
September - me
October - Helen

 

Let the sewing begin!