A Quilt Bee Backlog

The last time I blogged about my quilt Bee was back in September, and there has quite predictably been a bit more sewing since then!

October was my month, and I asked people to improv-piece two words - a favourite nice and naughty word  to call a person. I got 10 out of 12 blocks back which was slightly disheartening, it's not the first time my block instructions have been sent out into the ether never to return, but! The blocks I did get were awesome! And the lack of a few contributors meant I got to flex my vocabulary a little bit more. I haven't started to work on a final layout for the quilt, but I did buy a few more yards of each color solid so when I get to feeling like it I'll have all the supplies on hand.

In November I paper pieced some teeny Amish blocks for Judy....

Then we were asked to improvisationally piece around a trapezoid shape for Jody, with instructions to use some of the green batik she included and to add a warm colour. I went with tiny HSTs and a court house steps construction.

My timeline gets a little blurry at this point - multiple packets arrived late or early and all at the same time, so in order of completion:

6.5" x 12.5" strip pieced blocks for Mandy...

A divided fat quarter for Emily. I had the hardest time envisioning what this was supposed to look like! The tiny pictures in the instructions just didn't compute with the large piece of fabric and wide strips in front of me so I did my best and well, my best looks like the 80s.

Margaret asked for blocks to be made from upholstery fabric samples in a modified flying goose. This fabric was horrible to work with but I tried my best! The finished quilt will be sent to France for the International Festival of Extra Ordinary Textiles in Clermont-Ferrand, and then will be auctioned off to raise money for Doctors Without Borders.

And finally, not really Bee blocks but close enough, I sewed polka dot nine patches for a quilt block lotto at my last guild meeting. Every block got you a raffle ticket and in the end two piles of blocks were handed out to two lucky winner. I didn't win, but it was fun to take part. I was surprised how few polka dots (or even loose definitions) I had in my scrap and fat quarter stash and could only squeak out two blocks.

I think this means I all caught up as far as bee sewing goes. I'm looking forward to the next packet in the mail!