Tuesday, August 02, 2011
July Bee Block
In between frantically packing for our move, I fit in a bit of sewing time yesterday to finish up a few projects and make my July bee block. For the Love circle for the do.good stitches bee, this month Rachel asked us to make a single large block rather than two regular-sized ones, inspired by the polka dot block in the new Block Party book. The color scheme was meant to evoke and ocean, with shades of saturated blue, green and then greys as well - it was actually pretty similar to a lot of the fabrics I used in my Kaleidoscope quilt top so I had kept those fabrics out and used a number of the same ones. Like Rachel, I made mine using fusible web to secure the circles to the background fabric, and then zig-zagging around the edges of each to secure them. While I really like the overlapping circles that many folks in our bee have done with this block, when I was laying out mine I was just more drawn to a design where they were all separate.
Since I am going to be largely MIA this month, Elizabeth from Don't Call Me Betsy was kind enough to agree to sub for me and make my bee blocks this month! Thanks so much Elizabeth :)
I have a few more finished projects to show you - hopefully I can take another break from packing soon and find time to write a post or two.
Labels:
bee blocks,
charity,
quilting,
sewing
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Cool, I dig those circles! (And I'm so glad you didn't ask me to sub last month!) Good luck with the moving stuff this month :)
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