12 Squared Quilting Bee

Choices choices!

Alissa — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 19:34:11 +0000

I’m gonna keep on waiting for more blocks but I’m LOVING them all together!! Thank you to everyone who’s gotten me blocks!!

April blocks for Alissa

knittinginpink — Mon, 31 May 2010 00:07:29 +0000

I guess I never posted the blocks I made for Alissa back in April. I hope she got them and that she liked them!

I really enjoyed making these. Being limited in the colors we had made it more challenging but at the same time made it easier to make appealing blocks. I hope this makes sense in some way. I can’t wait to see how they all look together!

Blocks for Alissa

lindamade — Sun, 30 May 2010 23:58:06 +0000

In case anyone’s still reading… I finally got my act together today and sewed up some blocks for Alissa. I have no excuse and am sorry that it took me so long to sew these–I will mail them out on Tuesday. I did really enjoy sewing them, as I have hardly sewn anything in the past few months, so thank you for the opportunity.

I added a teeny tiny liberty scrap because I couldn’t help myself, I hope that’s ok!

And, if anyone still has my fabric and doesn’t think they’re ever going to get around to making blocks, feel free to send it on back to me.

Blocks for Alissa

cauchy09 — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:43:44 +0000

Here you go, Alissa! I was able to get three blocks out of the fabric supply with just a tiny bit of leftovers.

This will be a gorgeous quilt! I love the colors and the design idea.

Our final month!

Alissa — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 04:13:45 +0000

Hey All!

So I’ll be sending out the fabric for our last month this week. I’m sending some solids!

I’d like for you to all make me two 7.5″ (small!) quarter log cabins.

Like this! Or these!

I think that I gave you enough fabric, but I’m not sending tons, so if not, don’t worry about it – just make me one block!

Thanks!
Alissa

On their way

knittinginpink — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:17:40 +0000

I finally got around to sewing Linda’s blocks last week and had so much fun I just had to sew an extra one. They’ve been ready to go since Tuesday but I only just got around to mailing them this morning. They should be arriving in a few days!

I really loved the gray, gold and pink combo of fabrics, and somehow, unconsciously my last fabric order had the same colors. Isn’t that funny? Thanks Linda for the inspiration!

Anyways, here are the blocks that will be making their way over to you:

I hope they fit in with the rest!

Now I’m all set to work on April’s blocks, bring it on!

Slowly catching up

knittinginpink — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:05:50 +0000

My sewing space is finally usable and I couldn’t be happier. On top of that I have energy again! Woohoo!

I finally got around to sewing Chawne’s blocks this week and they’re now out on their way to her. I’m not used to sewing all these little squares together so I hope the corners meet cleanly enough! I was certainly challenged and I like that a lot.

I just realized that there are 2 blue squares quite close to each other, oops!

Next up, Linda’s blocks, and I couldn’t be more excited to start working on them. I have high hopes to try paper-piecing parts of the blocks. I printed a bunch of templates the other day and look forward to try them out.

Now I just have to re-read the instructions to make sure I do it like she asked!

Blocks so far

lindamade — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:41:03 +0000

Thanks so much to everyone who has sent along their blocks. I’m especially fond of the ones with the triangles. I appreciate your taking the time to be creative with these. I also think it’s neat that 2 of you ladies used the bird fabric in a very similar block style (I like!). I originally imagined this with big fields of color between some of the blocks but I love how they look edge to edge, too!

These are all of the blocks I have received to date and I’ve emailed each one of you to thank you. If you have sent yours and haven’t heard from me, give me a heads up. Generally I don’t have problems with the mail but I just want to double check since it’s been a couple of weeks since some of you posted your finished blocks.

Blocks for Linda

madforknit — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:47:55 +0000

After nearly a month of not being able to sew, I’ve been slowly catching up on my blocks. Maybe I’m just not as quick as some of you or I need your sewing machines [ ]but my blocks definitely take more than an hour from planning, cutting, sewing and pressing. Thank you to everyone for their patience. I really enjoyed working on these Bauhaus blocks. I think I may draw on this idea in the future! I hope you like these Linda!

72 Squares

madforknit — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:55:57 +0000

I finished these up yesterday and just needed this morning to press them. I’m sure there was an easier way but I sewed all the squares up individually into rows and then blocks. I wanted to make sure all the squares were where I placed them! I did one mistake square with a notched corner and another one with 3 different pieces. I had to look twice to find them and I even sewed them!