Bee Blocks Round Up

Today was the first day of my sewing and blogging week so I caught up on my Bee Blocks for Fresh Modern Bee 2 finally.

For May Lisa who blogs at Shiners View sent fabrics and inspired by her trip to Amsterdam asked for blocks based on whirlys or pinwheels.

I made 2 blocks one whirly and one pinwheel by stripping together some of the darker fabrics, pairing them with a neutral solid and then framing them in a pale yellow.

June is  Lil's month and she sent mostly neutral fabrics and a few colours and requested blocks in a liberated log cabin style.

I didn't feel like my first block was particularly liberated and preferred the next one:

Bee Blocks

I have been taking a break from blogging over the last 2 weeks and to be honest I haven't got much sewing done either.  Work has been really busy as I have been preparing for an office move, 2 weeks away from the office and some appeal cases in the Crown Court.  I do however have quite a few things I haven't blogged about starting with my Bee Blocks from December/January.

In Bee Quilted I made this block called Stir Crazy for Nursey Girl.

It's not my usual colour palette but I really like the way the coloured strips stand out against the dark green and it came together really easily.  I also did partial seams for the first time and was pleased with how they turned out.

January in Fresh Modern Bee 2 was all about circles reqeusted by Krista.  She sent us some linen and fabric in a colourway and asked for any size blocks.  The linen proved a real challenge for me and I stuck to a fairly simply snowball block for both of my blocks.  I love how the snowball block shows off the fabric and see a quilt of these in my future .. . . . .

Last week's sewing

I finished all the blocks for my sampler class last week - these are the last few - Birds in the Air

Sailboat

Card Trick

Double Pyramid

Churn Dash

I also made a couple of gifts for my Flickr May swaps but can't show them until I know they have been received.

Last week's sewing

For those of you were fooled with my prolific blogging the week before last this is the real me.  Work which thankfully I love (and not just because it pays my mortgage!) does get in the way of other things.  And for me if its a choice my spare time will always be spent sewing rather than blogging about sewing.

But this is what I have been sewing last week:

More blocks for my sampler quilt class (check out the new bathroom floor tiles underneath!!!)

Part of my mini quilt for the Modify Tradition Swap

I also had a trip to London for work which meant I could sew some more of these:

It wasn't all work no play last week though - I did manage a trip to the Quilt exhibition at the American Museum in Bath but that deserves a post all of its own . . .

Sunday's Sewing

More blocks for my Sampler Quilt Class:

This is my favourite so far - I think it is called T or Tin Soldier but I'm not sure.

This is a variation on Windmill

I love this one too - Drunkard's Path

I also tried out a sample block for the Baby Boy Quilt I am making.  The points aren't perfect but I am quite pleased how it turned out.  Half the blocks will have the red pinwheels and the other half will be the same design but orange pinwheels.

New Quilting Class Blocks

I started a new Quilting Class at Millie Moon Shop a week or so ago but haven't gotten around to posting about it yet.  Its a sampler block class with 12 blocks in total.  This one is North Wind.

This one is Attic Window.  I really wanted to do this class as I wanted to try different quilt blocks to see what I like, to stretch myself and to hopefully get inspiration for new quilts (although I must have about 25 quilt plans in my head at the moment!)

This one is called spools. I was also trying not to use pink (or too much of it anyway in this quilt).  I love pink but don't want to fall into a colour rutt so soon.

And lastly for now Pinwheels - my favourite so far!  I am away for the class this week so am going to try to get a couple done at home.

I am also going to see if I can blog every day this week.  I have the whole week off work which is the first time I have had a week off since March last year (excluding Christmas which frankly made work look like a doddle at times!).  I can't wait although I am not sure how much sewing I will do as we are having a bathroom refurbishment and a couple of days away.