June Sewing

Catching up on showing you some pictures from bee meetings and also my personal quilting for June.

Here are my June blocks for the 

do. Good Stitches Charity Bee's

Cheer circle

The blue background for both blocks are the same and in real life are closer to the blue in the churn dash block. I did some editing on the top block to bring out the lime green.  It made the mustard yellow look orange, though.  Oops!

I've got to watch that.

Here is my May block for the 

American Made Brand

Mystery Block of the Month

This is my version of a sunset!  The sun is Light Gold, a great true egg yolk yellow.

This was my first curved piecing.  All I can say is third time's a charm!

Yaya's Bee

Kris is our new bee mama.  We all pitched in fabric and she made TWO baby quilts for a baby basket we're putting together.  It will be raffled off at the West Houston Quilt Guild's 2017 Quilt Show in March.

I love the ric-rac on both of them!

Which one of these would you rather get if you purchase a raffle ticket for our basket?

Thimblelina's Bee

Quite a few finishes for these ladies...

Marion's quilt: an original design!

Maria's quilt 

Marion's One Block Wonder

Quilted by Lillie 

I completed a top!  It's ombre pink.  This will be for the guild challenge at the West Houston Quilter's Guild's 2017 Quilt Show.  Our challenge was to take one color and explore it's hues.  We could add either white or black but not both.

This is a pattern by Jaybird Designs called Delight.

#QuiltsforPulse

The Orlando Modern Quilt Guild has organized a quilt drive to support the victim's families.

Details here:

http://theorlandomodernquiltguild.blogspot.com/2016/06/donation-quilts-for-pride-orlando.html

and here:

http://theorlandomodernquiltguild.blogspot.com/2016/06/details-for-quilts-for-pulse-donations.html

These are the blocks I've made so far:

These are so easy and quick!

It's also fun to pick out and work with all the bright colors.

Can you tell I have a lot of geometric fabric in my stash?

I like flowery fabric, but I don't really buy much flowery fabric.  I have this thing in my mind that I won't know what to do with it, yet when I do work with it, I enjoy it.  What a dichotomy!

Are you helping out with this quilt drive?

Linking up with

Let's Bee Social #130

over at

Sew Fresh Quilts!

do. Good Stitches Cheer Circle + CiL + Westering Women BOM blocks

I am now part of the Cheer circle of the do. Good Stitches bee!

I am excited to be joining this awesome group of ladies to create blocks which go into quilts that are donated to Project Linus.
My followers know I love a good charity that can use a good quilt or ten!

The May block for the Cheer circle was a fun economy block:

I love a block where you can showcase some fun and cute fabric!


Covered in Love

June's block for Covered in Love is getting us ready for the summer!

Sun, sky and sand

I have made enough scrappy blocks that I'm cutting into fat quarters and yardage more.
It feels good!
Westering Women BOM

June's block is the Platte River:

I have a great wavy blue print for the river in the middle.  Then there is a "sandy" print and a "stripy" print for the shoreline.  I'm a geologist, but I have a passing familiarity with soils, so I wanted to do a sandy bank then a bluff and some more land at the top!  It's a veritable transgressive-regressive sequence!
(A little geology-speak for us geo-geeks!)
Then in the corners, I have two sort-of flowery/plant/tree-like prints.  I picked them primarily because they picked up the blue from the river.  (I am not a biologist, obviously!)

Helga is Back!
I finally have my Pfaff Quilt Expression 4.0, fondly known as "Helga", back from her yearly checkup at the local sewing machine shop.  I can now start on the new BOM from American Made Brand!
Block 1 is a sunset or sunrise, depending on your mood, and I have the perfect solids (after a bit of purchasing at Over the Rainbow, who have a plethora of AMB colors to choose from, and finishing a few bolts of AMB solids at my LQS)!
So stay tuned for this beauty to be posted, and also coming up, I'll have pictures from both May and June's bee meetings.

Discussion:
Are you doing any blocks of the month or quilt alongs?
Would three blocks of the month be too many?  I saw Melissa Corry's post today about her Summer Solstice Quilt Along, and I love how there's just a little bit of curved piecing.  It's something I want to try, and what a great way to get started with it! (Plus I have the solids to use in it!)