Well, they are completed and in the package to be sent away.
We used the Christmas Starry Night tutorial from Fresh Lemon Quilts for this block.
These two blocks were so much fun, I am not used to doing things with such vivid colors.
Paperpiecing blocks are so much work, but they turn out so nice.
My finger tips are sore and I have paper cuts, but boy of boy do I love these two blocks.
I it going to be so hard to mail these off to their new home, even if they aren’t my colors.
Before I sew these together I wanted a picture of them put together each way.
It’s almost hard to say they are the same sets of pieces. I don’t know which way I like better.
These are so NOT my usual color palette
– my eyes almost hurt from looking at these colors this long.
But I can’t wait to see what the blocks look like when they are completed!
I am actually excited that it’s a gloomy, rainy day today – it’s bright and shinny in my sewing room!
We had the most beautiful 3-4 days last week, we even hit 80 degrees. Considering the weekend before we had 8″ of snow on the ground, it was awesome.
We’ll were right back in it – parts of Minnesota (SE) got up to 12+ inches last night, it’s cold and wet here. The weekend is going to be cool and cloudy – so, it’s a good weekend to do my Bee sewing and get it out early again.
I have 3 blocks that I will be doing this month:
Floating Hearts – Grey, Black & Red
Star Block – http://www.freshlemonsquilts.com/?p=1456
Sampler Block – Citrus Colors
I love the blocks and colors this month, well, I usually do but maybe these bright colors will help brighten the gloominess of our weather.
I love doing spur of the minute projects – although it helps when I actually follow the instructions, but then it just wouldn’t be one of my projects if I didn’t switch something…
This weekend I joined a flicker group that steps in where other BUZZZZZZZZZy BEEEEEEEEEs have not fulfilled their commitment. I love these type of things because it’s a quick request and I don’t have too much time to think about it and procrastinate!!! My worst trait is procrastination, and best gift – I do some of my best work under pressure.
The block is a 6″ Paintbox Quilt Block – instructions can be found here: http://www.ohfransson.com/oh_fransson/2010/01/paintbox-quilt-along-how-to-make-classic-blocks.html
So in my grand tradition I messed them up.
First I cut the solid strips the wrong width, but this could have been fixed so easily if only I would have done the math correctly. So the solid strips started out too big and ended up too small. Good Grief. Only the ones on the far right are correct.
I guess I’ll have to find some more fabric and redo the other ones.
Well, the calendar says April and we just got 3″ of snow today.
Something is very wrong somewhere.
April is so busy for us that I did my Bee projects right away this month, so I didn’t have to rush later on.
These two blocks, were difficult, but I really like how they turned out. Although, the directions called for the seams to be pressed open, and I really didn’t care for that finishing look.
These blocks were quick and somewhat easy to do, I spent more time on finding the center fabrics than I did putting them all together.
So I’m off to play in the snow for awhile…
My 3 favorite hosting options (in no specific order):
My latest BEE project, that’s what!!!!!
I started making 1 set with black bars and a red/white pattern.
Then I thought, what would this look like with 2 patterns – let’s see.
The Asterisk worked out great with 2 colors, but the # sign, didn’t look right. Then I said to myself, self, what about 3 colors after all, the # sign has 9 spaces.
Then, I said to myself – “Hey, what about reversey” Is that a word? I can’t wait to get all these blocks from the BEE and put them together.
How can something so small weigh so much…?
I hate short months, I almost ran out of time with my “Bee” blocks this month.
I was hoping to get them into the mail today, but missed it by “this much” – it came a hour ago.
So I’m off to the post office.
My blocks this month are: Granny Squares x2, Wonky House Block x2
Paper Piecing is NOT one of my favorite things to do, but I’ll try, again and again and again.
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What a great Valentines gift idea!
