Monday, March 24, 2014

March Bee Blocks

My bee blocks this month were fun, fun, fun! Michelle Willkie over at Factotum of Arts has a brilliant plan for the March Stash Bee Hive #3 blocks, which she calls Through the Looking Glass. Her inspiration came from the idea of looking through a magnifying glass. Then, she further evolved the concept by choosing improv blocks to represent the affect of the glass being shattered.


Her clever idea gave me "wishing I had thought of that" design envy. Perhaps that's why I was sorely tempted to keep ahold of her blocks when I finished making them.


She requested blocks in green, blue, or a combination of red, orange, and yellow. Can you tell I had trouble deciding? I was so immersed in making these blocks that my husband popped into the sewing room to remind me to have lunch, and I'm not the kind of gal to go without food for long. Or it gets ugly. Come to think of it, I suppose that may have motivated my husband's courteous reminder. When making these blocks, you have to be careful to maintain a consistent 1/4" seam and press, rather than iron, or the tiny 1/4" white strips can get wavy.

Michelle's tutorial is available if you'd like to make some of these for yourself. They're a great stash buster!

You can also see the other Bee member's blocks on Flickr.

Christine chose wonky pinwheels in scrappy green and blue with a light gray background. We used the tutorial on the Greenleaf Goods website. It worked well to press the seams open. It didn't work so well to mark the lines with a Frixion pen. Mark-Sew-Press-Disapper-Regret-Mark Again. I also had to make sure that the squares were rotated correctly, with two points and two wider sides in each center.


Feel free to head on over and check out the Flickr group too.

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13 comments:

  1. visiting you from stitch by stitch. Love your friends block and what you are making

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  2. Great blocks!!! Love it... and thanks for linking up at MOP Monday!!

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  3. Those all turned out great! I love the first ones, her quilt is going to be so fun!

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  4. The blocks you made are lovely. I completely understand wanting to keep them yourself.

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  5. your blocks look great! I love them all!

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  6. Love the wonky pinwheels. Thanks for the share!

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  7. Thank you for sharing these great blocks and the links to some tutorials. I've just recently joined an online bee myself and am wracking my brain to figure out what my months block will be. You may have given me some ideas. :)

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  8. Your quilt blocks are great! I love the blue one - blue is my favorite color.

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  9. Love the spider in your blue block, Afton!

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  10. All your blocks are very pretty. But I really am having some design envy too after seeing your perfectly pieced Looking Glass blocks. You certainly did an awesome job!

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  11. Your Bee block are wonderful. Nice choices by your hive mates and well done. I'm always having the design envy feeling too.

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  12. Awesome project, looks like it was fun to piece.

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