September Bee Blocks

It has certainly been a long time since I posted anything here! It has been a very busy few weeks for our family. We spent some time in Canada with my family and when we got back my little man started pre-school! Now that we are getting into a good routine I am getting back into my quilting. I have tons of projects that I need to complete and I need to finish my blocks for Amy's Simple Sampler Quilt Along.

Tonight I finished my blocks for Carrie who has this month in the Bee Splendid virtual quilting bee. She sent some really great fabrics in turquoise, orange and lime. She sent us strings and gave us the opportunity to be creative and make any type of string block we wanted. She also send a turquoise square that we had to incorporate in the block however we wanted. I love this idea and can't wait to see this quilt when it is complete!

Here are by blocks for Carrie, I hope she likes them!

Quilt Along and Bee Blocks

I finally finished my quilt along blocks! It is Week 7 of Amy's Simple Sampler Quilt Along and there is only 1 week left! Here are the 2 blocks for this week:













The HSTs gave me a hard time but I like the way the block turned out. I'll take a picture of all the blocks next week!

This week I also worked on Mary's blocks for the Bee Splendid virtual quilting bee. Mary asked us to make Denyse Schmidt's Drunk Love inspired blocks and sent everyone beautiful fabric selections to complete the blocks. I LOVED making these! So much fun and so relaxing since there are no set rules to making them. Here are my 3 blocks:






If you are interested in making some similar blocks, check out this tutorial to get started!

Happy Quilting!
Sue

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Lovely Little Handmades Giveaway!

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Quilt Along and Chubby Stars!

It's week 6 of Amy's Simple Sampler Quilt Along so we are up to 12 blocks! This weeks blocks were fun and I learned something new on each of them. Here they are:



And here are all the blocks together:










After I finished these blocks this evening I decided to try Traceyjay's Chubby Star Tutorial that she posted today. These blocks are super cute! I definitely want to make a whole quilt with these blocks but for now I just did one block using some scrap fabric. The tutorial is great and my block turned out pretty good, but don't look to close since a couple of my points didn't line up exactly! Here is it:













I had just enough of the fabric in the center that I could fussy cut to get it centered perfectly. If you are interested in making this block go on over to Traceyjay's blog to check out the tutorial. She has some cute examples for you to see with some great fabric choices.

Also this week I took a machine quilting class! It was a really fun class held at The Quilting Squares Quilt Shop in Franklin, TN. We practiced free motion quilting with and without stencils. I am hoping that this will help me get over my fear of quilting so that I may actually finish a quilt very soon! Maybe by the end of the week. I will post it if I do!

Happy quilting, everyone!

Sue

Simple Sampler Quilt Along Week 5

It's week 5 of Amy's Simple Sampler Quilt Along. The blocks this week are so cute! And they weren't too difficult to make. The first is a 6-grid chain. If mine looks a little wonky that's because it is :)



The second block is a 4 patch variation with hour glass blocks. It might be a little wonky too.



And here are all of the blocks together.



I can't wait to finish the blocks and put this quilt together! Now that I am finished I am going to have fun looking at everyone else's blocks. I am sure they all turned out great!

Happy Quilting!

Sue

My Cool Moves

So I was sewing together a quilt top today when my 3 1/2 year old, Nathan, came downstairs from his nap. Usually I don't sew when the kids are up since they love to touch everything to figure out how it works, probably not a good idea with a sewing machine! But he was quite curious as to what I was doing so he watched me for a little while and wanted to know what I was going to do next, pin, sew or press. When I was almost done he said "Mom, you've got some cool moves with that quilting machine!" I have no idea where he picked up the phrase "cool moves" but I took it as a compliment and gave him a big hug. Such a sweet little guy! He made my day!

So I put my cool moves to good use and finally finished the main part of my daughter's quilt top. I don't know why this has taken me so long to complete but I am happy to be done with this top! Well, almost done, I still need to add a border and decide if I am going to add ric rac like the pattern suggests. But since I am so happy with my progress I had to blog it! Here it is:



The fabric is Summer Song by Riley Blake that I adore! It is so bright and cheery. We are going to redecorate Kaitlyn's room around this quilt and fabric. The solid is white from Kona. It makes the pinwheels look really crisp.

I used the Wild Thing pattern by Camille Roskelly of Thimble Blossoms. I really love her style and choice of fabrics. You probably already know she designs fabric for Moda (wow!) and that her latest line is Bliss which is absolutely beautiful! I would love to be creative enough to do what she does! I think I am going to try her Picnic Rollup quilt next using Bliss.

I hope you all have made some progress on your quilts this weekend but if you haven't maybe you have been doing something else fun and exciting!

Happy Quilting!

Sue