It is always fun to receive bee blocks! I try to do the 4×5 Modern Bee quarterly, which is nice because it has instant gratification as far as bees go. You send your blocks and receive your blocks at the same time. This spring I was in hive 3, and was fortunate to receive the following blocks to add to my Real World Red & White Sampler:
1. Dawn, 2. Christina (illy23), 3. Brandy (Jade Rose), 4. Sarah (Coincidentally Quilting), 5. Cinda (Sewbusy64), 6. My Double Pinwheel
I am also part of the Stash Bee, which is a more traditional monthly bee where you send away a block each month, and then have to wait until your month to get all your blocks in return. When it’s your month though – it’s magical! Everyday going to the mailbox felt like my birthday.
Hive 12 did an amazing job on my blocks. I requested that they do my Square Dance block using my paper piecing tutorial in gray and shades of aqua. As you can see below, they did beautiful work.
Thank you to the ladies of Hive 12: Heather (Quilts in the Queue), Cheryl (Texas Quilting Gal), Jennifer (Taken Patiently), Michele, Kristel (Work in Progress Girl), Laura (Sew Frou Frou Quilter), Toni (Gypsygirl Wanderlust), Genevieve, Francis (Quilts n Stuff), and Willa.
-Heather
Linking up to:
Anything Goes Monday, Fabric Tuesday @ Quilt Story, Let’s Bee Social Wednesday @ SewFreshQuilts, Needle and Thread Thursday @ My Quilt Infatuation, Whoop Whoop Fridays @ Confessions of a Quilt Addict, Fabric Frenzy Friday @ Ft. Worth Fabric, and Sewjo Saturday at My Go-Go Life.
Wow! Beautiful blocks! The gray and aqua blocks look extra fabulous together. 🙂
I LOVE your aqua blocks! I have an aqua bundle that I have been contemplating using with your square dance pattern! Ideas are till percolating and I have a couple of quilts that need to get finished first but your blocks make me want to get started now! 🙂
You are so lucky, your bee mates made some wonderful blocks for you. Thanks for the tute.
Glad to hear your red and white quilt is still a work in progress. Lovely new additional blocks you received! And so are those Square Dance blocks! Thanks so much for sharing!
Gorgeous! I love the looks of your Red and White quilt. I didn’t know you could get different blocks from a bee. So cool. But your square dance blocks…holy cow. stunning. I love the colors you picked!