February Bee Block Recap

February was a great month for bee blocks!  I have been wanting a design wall for a long time now, and I finally dusted off my hammer, found some tacks, and made it myself.  Seeing my bee blocks up there brought a smile to my face!

I ended up making the chevron block twice due to reader error on my part (the request was for solids, duh!).  So I took lots of photos the second time to write a tutorial for the block which hopefully I will post soon.

And I got some improv practice with the blocks for Make It Modern and Stash Bee. 

Notting Hill fabric was appropriate in the Pippi Longstocking block since its recipient lives in a town called Nottinghamshire in England!

I can’t wait to see what March brings!

Winner x2

The winner of the 1 Choice 4 Quilting Easy As Pie quilt kit is

Catskill Quilter who said, "I really like sew-alongs with a quilt to make, and it is much more fun if people post their progress in a flickr group.  It always inspires me to watch others work along on the same quilt!" Congratulations, Elizabeth!  Nicole has sent you an email.

The quilt along starts Monday, and there are still a few quilt kits left and plenty of time to have it delivered by the weekend.  All of the fabric for the top, back, and binding is just $67.99!!!  And shipping is free!  Check it out here.

Have your own layer cake and want to participate?  We’d love to have you join our Flickr group!  All you need to make this top is a layer cake, 27 inches of border and binding fabric, 52 inches of solid, and 4 yards coordinating backing.  And one winner who completes the quilt top by February 25th will get a free quilt kit for March’s quilt along!  It can’t get any sweeter than that!

I also recently hosted a giveaway in conjunction with the Dare to Dresden blog hop.  The winner of the Riley Blake chevron charm pack is

ga447 who said “I am a follower.”

Thanks to all my followers and thank you for taking the time to comment on my blog!

Baby Elephant Dance Complete!

This quilt measures about 39” square. 

The fussy cut fabric is called Kharma Baby, most of the log cabin fabric is DS Quilts and Metro Circles, and the sashing is Kona ash. I used warm and white batting and the backing is a wonderful fabric from Connecting Threads from their Quilter’s Candy collection. It is light gray with little stars all over it.

I used a zig-zag stitch to machine bind this quilt and you can see it’s getting more and more accurate on the back as I’m sewing from the front.  It’s just taken a lot of practice.  This is probably my tenth quilt I’ve completely machine bound.

Here is a peek of the next project I’m working on.  The fabrics in this one are from the Maya collection. 

Linking up to WIP Wednesday!