My facebook quilting group Desi Quilters started a virtual bee in July this year! For the first two months, I requested some fellow quilters to make my blocks while I was visiting my son in the USA.
For September, the ever-gracious Vidya was the queen bee and she decided to wait for me! She had a long wait, as I did not have white poplin and she wanted a lot of negative space in her block! And a lot of squares…Her block has finally been sent on Monday , as have the blocks for the next 3 months!
This is Vidya’s block . I played around with the squares till I found an arrangement I liked for her modern block. It was the first time I ironed the seams flat and I found it difficult to match the seams – with so many squares to take care of!
The queen bee for October was the gorgeous, artistic Brinda. Brinda’s block(s) gave me much heart ache and I am not very happy with what I came up with finally 🙁 I have only small floral print fabric in my stash and she wanted polaroid picture blocks! Anyways, this is what I made for her…
November Queen Bee was the gentle Nirmala. She wanted sail boats for her block party. That was a quick make! I only read later that she wanted only solids for it 🙁 But since she was okay with it when I showed it to her, I mailed it to her anyways!
The last block was for the Star of our group,Elvira! Elvira has a wonderful eye for colour and sews oh, so neatly! And this was the block that gave me the maximum trouble. First I cut it wrong, then I sewed it wrong. I ran out of black thread, and the thread that I found was really linty. Nevertheless, I managed to finish it and post it – for the first time, in time! This is Elvira’s Double Star Block. The colours are slightly darker than what they appear here. I just hope she does not look at it from the back 😉
So that was about the bees and the blocks! What about the honey? I shall post about that later today…
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love all of em
Thank you, Tina! It is only because you cant see the wrong side:-)
I always admire your neat work..all your bee blocks are wonderful and I love my one..can’t wait to receive it ^_^.
I do hope You will not be sorely disappointed, Elvira! I have made quite a mess of it, like I wrote here plus the fabric is fraying like crazy 🙁
love all of them and loved ur description of the dq’s even more 🙂
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How I love being called “ever gracious” twice in one week !!! Even if I know I’m not to take it seriously..its a good feeling 🙂 I LOVE my block as I do the others too and I love the way you’ve described all the Queens.
Because it describes you so perfectly, Vidya! A soothing influence on easily inflamed tempers !