Monday, September 29, 2014

Bee Blocks - September

I present to you, September's episode of "Bee Blocks".

Leading the charge is Samantha Linehan, September Queen of the Stash Bee


She challenged her hive to create a 13" - 15" Flying Geese block incorporating olive green, red, gold, and/or chocolate brown with a cream background. I enlarged the free Circle of Geese pattern on Craftsy to 14". It came together without incident, and looks nice. I'd love to try another with different value placement to highlight the star in the center (currently the background color).


You can check out the other Stash Bee blocks on Flickr.

Bonnie Hunters' free Scrappy Trip Around the World pattern was used for this month's Hope Circle of Do. Good Stitches block. Kimberly Swink of Swink Girl Quilts requested prints in orange, yellow-orange and orange-red with one strip of dark blue running diagonally through the center of each block. I discovered that it was possible to have the blue running from corner to corner, while still sewing the strips together in an incorrect order. Ooops! I'm glad I got that straightened out. Don't you love the bravado of these colors?




As for the New Quilt Blogger Bee, Deb Harrison asked for Churn Dash blocks following the tutorial at A Quilting Life. 
Plum and June

She desired a medium color range that wasn't too light or primary, and a background that read as a solid. Here are her blocks, which she considered a little tame.


My blocks are not so tame. I'm hoping they play nicely with their more mellow counterparts.



Do you participate in online bees? If so, which one(s)?

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10 comments:

  1. I love vibrant churn dash blocks - bet they will look great in the quilt!

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    1. Thank you, Ruth. I'm all about vibrant. For October, one of the bee blocks is supposed to be pastel. That's going to be a bit of an adjustment for me.

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  2. What a colorfull beautiful blocks! I love them all, Love to see them in a quilt! I will come back.
    Love from Amsterdam

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    1. Thank you for the visit from Amsterdam. I'll have to make a practice of sharing the completed quilts. The queen bees do an awesome job pulling all the blocks together.

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  3. I would like to do the flying geese circle for a bee but don't know the abilities of the members, so I stick to simple. Yours are gorgeous

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    1. I was impressed with the pattern, which wasn't as complex as I expected. It helped that the four quadrants were the same, and the seam-allowance bulk is distributed nicely. Your group would need to be able to paper-piece though, which can be intimidating to beginners.

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  4. Love all the orange in your bee blocks this time. Especially like that orange and pink churn dash! Excellent blocks!

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    1. It was actually completely coincidental. I suppose my love of brights is coming through. Thanks for visiting.

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  5. Love the bright churn dash. I've never done an on-line bee. I think I have a hard enough time finding time for my own quilting that I'd worry about getting something for someone else done on time.

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    1. I've enjoyed participating in the online bees. While I'm habitual about collecting UFOs, it holds me accountable for getting things done in a specified time frame. It is also nice to try out different techniques without creating orphan blocks, or having to commit to completing an entire quilt.

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