Little 4 Inch Blocks for Jessica

Little 4 inch blocks for jessica, originally uploaded by nkiblueeyes.

So I've had a hard time with this month's assignment. I SO wanted to make some fabulousness for Jessica, after all, she totally hooked me up when it was my month. She paper pieced this awesome block for me that must've taken a LONG time. It was perfect, I tell you...

But... Most of what Jessica loves according to her inspiration mosaic is paper pieced. This is not my forte.

I tried a couple other ideas. One flopped completely. It involved yo-yos... Didn't turn out so cute... So I threw it out.

I have one other block going for her. It's embroidery, which isn't my strongest suit, either, but I think I can pull this one off... That block isn't finished yet, so I can't show you a picture...

But here are 7 little 4 inch blocks. Some are wonky log cabins... some half square triangles and a fussy cut square in a square.

We shall see if time permits me to play upstairs a little bit more this week. I have some fun reindeer fabric that would be great to use...

Merry Christmas, Jessica!

Bee Blocks and Angela's blocks

Whitney and I worked on our blocks together, I think that they turned out super cute.

January is my month and I am already to go! Normally I wait until the last minute but since I accidentally thought that last month was my month, I have been ready for quite awhile.


For my blocks, I would like to do something very similar to what Hannah did her month. I would like the basic square in a square. Since I am not a huge fan of scrappy quilts, I have included all the fabric. Please use only the fabric I have provided (you can keep any scraps left over) I would like the gray fabric used at least once and no wonkiness please.

For the size: I would like a 12'' finished square OR four 6" finished squares OR two 6" X 12" finished squares. I hope that makes sense.

I am probably going to be a little distracted at the meeting so if you see me, please come up and ask me for your block.


This is my first bee so I am so excited to see the awesome blocks that you are going to make me.

Thanks so much!!!!

Angela

Blocks for Jessica

 Jessica, I decided on angels to add to your Christmas themed quilt.  Hope you like them!

                 

 One's a red head.  Tee hee hee!

Happy New Year, Carla

An Idea

Hey, friends. :)

I have an idea I'm thinking of doing...

Instead of a boring backing for the quilt that I'm making from our bee, I'm thinking about making 12 blocks and asking each of you to sign one of them...  Then I can piece a backing with them in it and have a reversible quilt.  What do you guys think?

Playing "Catch-Up"

Blocks for Paula (enjoyed using the scraps on the 'crazy' one!)

for Jaime (fun w/ Texture!)

for Hannah (variety, and 2 'starters')

Around our house ... We got son #2 married off ...

& building immunities for the flu season, so to speak....

Life in general ... making time to catch up, find my camera, get settled in my (new to me) STUDIO ...
(Before vs AFTER, more current photos coming soon) ...

~ Looking forward to 2011!

Robot Quilt - Block #3

So, rather than procrastinate to the very last minute again this month, I was able to sneak in Hannah's blocks the day before they were due.  I even had a chance to sneak in a little time to make a robot block for my husband's quilt.  He was so excited when he came home and saw I had made one for his quilt.  I think he thought I forgot about it.  :)



I am planning to go back and make up the last few robot blocks at some point; probably after Christmas.

The Month of December

Hi!  I'm guessing my fellow bee members won't see this until after the guild meeting tonight, but that's okay.  :)  For those of you who aren't in our bee, here's what I have planned for the KC Scrappy Bee in the month of December. 

Idea

I don’t think you guys have any idea how much I love Christmas. I really, really, really LOVE Christmas. A LOT! I love the season, the shopping, and the traditions. I have wanted to make a fun Christmas quilt for myself for a very long time, but just haven’t gotten to it. I thought this would be the perfect project to have everyone help me with.

Fabric

I’d like all the blocks have a white background to make the colors really pop.  I’m giving each of you two fabrics: one red and one tealy-turquoise colored.







The color scheme I have in mind is kind of a fresh & cheery Christmas. I was envisioning these kinds of colors, but feel free to add anything that fits the fresh & cheery description.



Size

My size request is a little bit odd… I’d like to lay this quilt out on a 4x4 grid. You can make a block that fits that grid anyway you like. That means blocks that finish at 4x4, 4x8, 8x8, and 12x16 all work!

Design

Anything Christmas works for me! You could make a gingerbread house, gingerbread man, elf, candy cane, Santa, reindeer, present, mistletoe, Christmas tree, stockings, or anything else you can think of.

Links

If you need a little help coming up with something, you could adapt this pattern: http://www.quiltsoup.com/Hip_Holidays_free_pattern.pdf

I’m in love with this little elf; not so much the mushroom.
http://artisania.wordpress.com/2008/08/01/sewing-more-complex-paper-pieced-patterns/

I’ve saved some cute Christmasy things in my favorites on flickr. Here is the link:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sewbotslaboratory/favorites/

I’ve also made a mosaic of some of the blocks and quilts I found online I liked.


1. Santa Block, 2. Windblown snowman mini quilt, 3. Aurora's Xmas quilt from Frolic charm pack, 4. Caroll's Block, 5. Small Santa Quilt, 6. Sept Block, 7. The quilt is done!, 8. one more block to go., 9. { a very merry! }, 10. Santa's Elf, 11. Lil' St. Nick, 12. WIP 7 - SewConnected 2 Quilt, 13. Mrs. Claus, 14. for Beth, 15. Tree and gnome, 16. building a neighborhood


The links below the mosaic are to the original photos.  You can click on the links to see them. 

Have fun with this and don’t over think it; I’m sure to love whatever you make for me.

If you run into trouble and need some help, feel free to send me an email at jessica (at) sewbotslab (dot) com.

Happy quilting & I hope you guys have a great Christmas!
-Jessica

For Hannah, From Jessica

I made 2 blocks for Hannah this month.  They went together quick and easy.  I think they turned out pretty cute. 




I even did them before the last minute and had time to do a robot block this month, too. 

KCMQG Time!

I hope you all will be able to join me tomorrow night at KCMQG.  We'll be giving Hannah her fun blocks...

And Jessica will let us know what's in store for us for the month of December.  Last time I asked her, she was thinking of some Christmasy type stuff...  Stay tuned...

See you guys tomorrow!
-Nikki

Bee Blocks for Hannah

 I had fun searching though my stash, gathering fabrics for Hannah's November Bee Blocks yesterday.

 I love the greyish-beige snowflake fabric that Hannah included with the instructions. This block turned out off center. Hopefully, that is not considered "wonky", otherwise maybe the block could be used on the back or something.

 I enjoyed cutting into my new Moda "I's a Hoot" fabric to make this block using some Kona coal.

Hope you like these, Hannah.  They were a fun way for me to finish up my day yesterday!
Happy Thanksgiving,
Carla

Hannah's blocks

I'll let you trim these, Hannah. I made you 3 of them. I hope they'll work!

For Hannah

For Hannah, originally uploaded by nkiblueeyes.

Love the blocks but am not a fan of pressing open seams. If I had to do this all the time, i'd quit quilting.  For real.

:)

So Much Going On...

So this little bit of Paris came along and I knew it would be a good week! I have some plans for Parisville, at least this little stash. We will see how it comes out

This is a bowl rug I made for my niece. She asked me if I had some scraps that I could make her a little matt to go under the bowl on her table!!! I told her I had a scrap or two lying around.

It is a busy time of year. Lots of sewing to be done and not near enough time to do it. So many new fabrics coming into the market and Of course I still love lots of the old ones! I should have been posting all along but that machine got the better of me.

This is the mug rug I received as a gift in our swap at the KCMQG November meeting. Carla Timberlake made it and I just think it is great. Right now I am using it as my rug for my hand sewing things as I try to finish up all those bindings before the holidays. This is the first Innocent Crush that I have and it is very pretty. Thank you Carla.

Always more to do.

Have a joyful Thanksgiving everyone!

Hannah's Blocks

These are a couple of bonus blocks I made today for Hannah. Have not made the blocks with Hannah's fabric yet but everything is cut and waiting for me. I used a few solids and had some great gray/yellow/white fabrics I had in the stash that I think will work well. Hope she likes them.

For Jaime from Jessica

I used the six minute circle method.  So easy and fun to do!



Hope you like them, Jaime!