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Bee Happier

My guild quilting bee has made to its second year! Happy Anniversary to Bee Happy!

Bee Happy Round 2 – Alison’s blocks for Kelly, a photo by Ms.Alleycat on Flickr.

This is a close-up of some embroidered flowers for Kelly‘s window block for the month of June.

For this first month of Bee Happy, [...]

Life gets in the way of quilting….

…some good – work, travel, renovations; some bad – long hours, illnesses, renovations.

I have managed to work on a few blocks for my fellow Bee Happy members.

In August, Melissa sent us a variety of modern red & aqua prints, and asked for one block with circles and one of our own design.   I thought [...]

My summer blog vacation is over!

Ok, ready to get back to work…err, blogging….quilting….and actual job work too.
Little bits of sewing have led to this:

Wonky Star block for me!

I have almost all my May ‘Liberated Wedding Ring’ blocks back from my fellow bees,

showing off the blocks made by my fellow Bee Happy members

finished my June blocks for Blossom,

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I love early birthday presents!

Who doesn’t? My birthday is next month (June 22nd, the summer solstice!), so I requested the month of May as my month for Bee Happy. Our bee started mid-month, so this way, I got my obligations of making decisions,  clarifying instructions, and sending out fabric way out of the way before any birthday planning filled [...]

Bee Blocking Along

So May is my month for Bee Happy, my quilting bee with other members of the LA MQG.  I specifically requested this month so that I would get my blocks back  in June, my birthday month, and would be able to make myself a quilt for my birthday! And this one is going on my [...]

ORANGE you glad.....

….I managed to squeeze two blocks out of these fabrics:

April fabrics for Bee Happy

Leslie  asked for  2 log-cabin blocks in a square-within-a-square style, between 12 and 14 inches . The examples she gave us showed a lot of white or solids.  She gave out a variety of orange and grey prints, and dark grey, light [...]