NYC Metro Mod Quilt Guild Bee!

About a year ago I started looking around for an NYC based quilt guild and found the NYC Metro Mod Quilt Guild. I've been having a lot of fun at the meetings, there is so much talent and inspiration!

In the new year I signed up for a bee, my first, that came to be known as the Lucky 13 Bee because instead of the usual 12 members we (obviously) ended up with 13. I'm the last person to send fabric (I think in November), and while I have a pretty good idea what I'm going to be my block I've been enjoying making blocks for other people too. There's been a huge amount of diversity in the fabric, directions given and techniques. Here are my blocks so far....

November 2011 - Christmas trees or ornaments.
I based this on a tutorial here but tweaked the dimensions to  12.5" square.

December 2011 - Green, a curve, a smidge of black, and add your own hot colour
I think I hit all those marks... I'd never sewn a curve before so I really  didn't know what I was doing. I took the instructions from the waverunner quilt, sewed the strips together and ironed the bejeebus out of them, then squared up. It worked but I wouldn't recommend it for something more large scale with this much of a curve. After that I went pretty traditional with the construction, piecing together strips to make a log-cabin-ish block.

 

January 2012 - Rocky Road to Kansas

My first paper pieced block! We were provided with the green background, instructions and a template. I broke out my light box for this to line up all the layers of fabric under the template.

 

February- Naked trees against a cool background.

 I'm very meh about this one, I dislike all of the fabrics I chose.

 

March- A star block

Using the week 11 star block from Crazy Mom Quilts star quilt-along.

 

April- A liberated block.
Using the provided grey essex linen, and orange and purple from our own scraps.

 

June- Arkansas Travell Block using Pezzy Prints
Arkansas Traveler Block (Tutorial) for my June block. We were given the Pezzy prints, the white and paper templates and asked to add our own scraps.

 

July- A strip of HSTs
We were asked to pair the provided white fabric with "on white" summery prints from our own stash.

 

August- Fall leaves
We were sent a small piece of hand-dyed fabric with leaf resists and asked to produce a leaf/Fall inspired block. I was stumped for a while before I took to pinterest and got inspired. I took inspiration from here, and an outline from here, paper pieced and then attempted my first machine applique. Not perfect but interesting none the less.

 

I had so much fabric left over I made another this time employing lightweight fusible interfacing for the appliqé because duh, that's what it's there for.

 

I'm looking forward to what the last few months bring! (And yes, there's a month missing, not sure what happened with the queen bee for that month...)