My turn!!!

Me, me, me ... it's all about me !!!



Every other month there are two members of our virtual quilting bee that are the assigned recipients of their chosen quilt block. The alternating month there is just one person. June is MY month!!! And June is almost here.

I chose June because other people will be sewing for me and I just sit back and wait for the packets of amazing-ness to start arriving in my mailbox. Planned so since I will be in Seattle for the latter part of the month. Then that little stinker decides to arrive six weeks early and test his grandma's patience to the Nth degree! I don't want to wait until the last minute to put my packets together, so here they are, all done except for writing up and printing out 17 copies of what I'd like done with them.

June 2009 is going to be one of the most awesome months of my life!

Doll quilt swap WIP Peek #2

Okay, so I had a burst of energy at like 10:00 last night and decided to go ahead and fuse the flower parts I had traced out onto some fabric (was it a burst of energy or just the fact that the iron was hot because I'd just finished Dianah's block ?!?) Anyway, here it is. I think I'm going to blanket stitch around each piece in thread to match the fabric. And I think I'm going to add a border the whole way around ... just haven't decided if I want it to be white or a color. This is mostly how I roll, especially on small projects, it's never fully thought out in my mind; or if it is, it is certainly "subject to change" !! Man, how'd it get to be Monday so fast?

First block finished for bee inspired

Rachel Griffith,
your block is done!
I stayed up late last night
to finish it. Once I got going,
I didn't want to stop!

I'm pleased with it,
I hope you like it.
My husband critiqued it very closely,
noticed that the fabric didn't quite
reach the 12 1/2 inch mark in a couple
of places, and I explained to him that those
places would be in the seam allowance
and thus not of consequence.
(Okay, I would have preferred it to be perfect,
but I'm not going to beat myself up!)

Bee Inspired ... WIP

So tonight after work I decided to tackle the first of the bee inspired virtual quilting bee blocks (whew, say that fast three times!). I can't show you the actual block just yet because I don't know if the recipient wants to see it in advance of receiving it in the mail, or if she wants to be surprised. If it's the latter, I'll need to wait until she gives me the green light to unveil it. I had fun making it and I hope she likes it.