Buckle Your Seatbelts…

quiting bee blocks 004, originally uploaded by Indie House.

I’ve decided to try paper piecing. I’ve been simultaneously captivated by and afraid of this block since I first saw it on another blog. I never would have tried it accept I’m slightly more afraid of piecing circles
This month’s task for Bee Modern was to [...]

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Kiss!

Kisses Bee Modern December, originally uploaded by Indie House.

This block and I don’t quite get along… It definitely needs some more ironing but I’m calling it a day. The task for December was to make a kiss block and a hug block. I love the saturated reds and purples, although I would never have the [...]

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Back for real this time :)

jons wedding 141, originally uploaded by Indie House.
So I moved, disappeared from blogging, fell behind on my quilting bees, didn’t get birthday presents done on time and the list goes on and on. And why pray tell did this happen? Because when it comes to moving and then unpacking I’m a little (okay a lot) [...]

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Playing Catch Up

Bee Modern August, originally uploaded by Indie House.

I’ve been a slacker… well not exactly. I’ve been feeling really overwhelmed by the idea of moving and having to pack everything up and move it ourselves to a new and much smaller apartment. On top of that I’ve been traveling more for work and feeling much less [...]

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Stripped Out

canonjuly09 254, originally uploaded by Indie House.

I spent about ten hours this weekend working on my Bee Modern quilt and I still have so much to do! Saturday I squared up and trimmed down all the blocks and Sunday I spent 8 hours drawing, cutting and attaching four 12.5 in by 2 in strips to [...]

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Bee Modern Quilt Block Layout

canonjuly09 240, originally uploaded by Indie House.

One of the perks of starting a quilting bee is getting to have your blocks created first. The downside is that you are then expected to turn around and turn them into a quilt first.

Here are almost all of the blocks laid out (I’m still missing one) and I [...]

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Designing Your Own Quilt Block with Freezer Paper

canonjuly09 207, originally uploaded by Indie House.

August is Zoonah’s month for Snip, Sew, Send and she asked us to create 7.5 in by 7.5 in blocks featuring circles and curves. I’ve made a quilt using circles before but it was much too simple to repeat for the bee. Instead I decided to try using freezer [...]

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Bee Modern July

canonjune09 124, originally uploaded by Shear Delight.

July is Sugard Limes’ month in Bee Modern and due to an impending move she had to ship her fabric early so I wasn’t really planning on working on it any time soon. But as more and more of my fellow bees started finishing their blocks I started to [...]

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Snip Sew Send

For Hermione, originally uploaded by Shear Delight.

I think somewhere I mentioned that in addition to Bee Modern, I’m also participating in Snip Sew Send. The first month was June and I actually completed this block the same day the fabric arrived! Hermione asked us to create something in the Denyse Shmidt “Hop, Skip, Jump” vein [...]

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Bee Modern

The first of my quilting bee fabrics, originally uploaded by Shear Delight.

I’ve been following a couple virtual quilting bees on flickr and now their is a photo group for all the quilting bee blocks- talk about eye candy! The thing is I didn’t just want to watch others, I wanted to participate but how? It [...]

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