Summer Sewing

Anyone interested in a little outdoor hand-stitching?  

I propose a Central Park meet up this Saturday, July 7 at Strawberry Fields starting at our usual Saturday morning time of 10 AM.  Hopefully it won't be too hot that early, especially in shady Strawberry Fields.  Comment or email (radianthoneyquilts (at) gmail (dot) com) if you are interested and we'll make a firm plan.  

Hope you are getting lots of air-conditioned sewing in this summer and have a great 4th!

Lucky 13 Bee Blocks May & June

Kati's block, I chose a wonky churn dash, my first attempt at this design. I really like the colors against the background we got.

Laura's block: I don't do alot of paper-piecing so it takes me awhile to get started, but after the first square was done, I was on a roll!

Hope you like your blocks, they are in the mail!

Finally got the pieces together going the right way! Lots of fun, and I learned a lot. Hope it ended up the right size! Thanks.

Sewing Advice from Singer

Just read this on Karen's Sew Many Ways blog and couldn't resist passing it on to you all.   Karen says it's from a 1949 Singer Sewing Manual.  Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.  

July Mod Bee 2

Hi Lucky 13 Bee Members ...


During the month of July I would like you to make 2 rows of eight 3.5" HST blocks for a top 

that I have just started.

My goal is to make a simple quilt with a light summery feel.  I have mailed directions and
white fabric squares.  Happy Sewing!  Many Thanks!  


Margaret

July's Modern Bee Block

July’s Modern Bee Block

 

Hi all you busy bees!  I have chosen Victoria’s Triangle Galore Block for my Bee.  

Your packages went out in the mail yestersday.

I have enclosed the pattern, you will need to make 8 copies to complete the paper pieced star.  This block took me about an hour to complete.  I have given you purple triangles for the corners, please use these there.  There is plenty of fabric to complete this block, and you may keep the leftovers for your stash if you would like.  You may add your own fabric too if you wish, just keep them bright and colorful, no solids or black and whites. 

Please make sure you keep a quarter inch seam allowance and shorten your stitch length so you can remove the paper easily.  No need to trim them, I will do that when they arrive.

Here is the link to Victoria’s tutorial:

http://www.15minutesplay.com/2012/01/while-back-i-made-camo-block-using.html

Have fun and thanks so much for helping me make this quilt! 

Lisa

Pezzy Arkansas

I hope you like it, Laura! This has two scraps that came from the swap table at guild meetings, my way of increasing my scrap stash!

June Bee Blocks for Kim

June blocks for Kim.  What a terrific way to learn something new - thanks for the opportunity to work on them!

June Bee Block for Kim

Don't know why I haven't done more paper piecing.  This block was fun to do.  I learned some useful tricks and will definitely do more.  Hope you like this, Kimberly.

NYC MOD Exhibit

Hi All!  Here's the quilts that hung at the NQA show.

"Cutting Edge Conglomerate" MOD GROUP QUILT

"1/4" Circles" MOD Group Quilt

Mary B's quilt

David S's quilt

Victoria's Quilt

Margaret C's Quilt

Amy D's Quilt

Rayna G's Quilt

Helen B's Quilt

Jackie K's Quilt

Andrea H.M's quilt

Chris S's Quilt

Jody also submitted her MOD quilt to the show.

Everything looked great!  Well Done,  MOD's!

NYC Mod Bee for June - Kimberly's New York Beauty Blocks

Here are Kimberly's NYB blocks. Hope you like them. I like paper piecing and this was a fun project! 

Cherrywood quilt

Cherrywood FabricsVictoria Findlay Wolfe

18 hours ago near Baxter, MN 

From Cherrywoods:

THANK you for sending us this wonderful quilt that uses ALL of our 8-step gradations. It filled one whole end of the booth! And here is PROOF that your mother came in to introduce herself. How sweet!

Thanks Mom for getting over to see it!  ;-)

Event, Quilting with Machines

Join us for our 6^th year of offering machine quilting classes in a beautiful relaxing setting.

We have teachers who are some of the best in the business.  Quilting with Machines is not just about longarm quilting.  Along with longarm classes, we offer classes for midarm and domestic machine quilting with wonderful national teachers as well.  We also offer several beautiful piecing classes for those of you who are not quite ready to make the jump to machine quilting.

Our venue also offers a quilt show that is just for machine quilters and a vendor mall with lots of tools, patterns, and gadgets for quilting as well as some very interesting fabrics.

Class registration is open and the small hands on classes fill quickly, early registration is encouraged.

Quilting with Machines website is www.quiltingwithmachines.com

June Blocks

I realized I didn't give you my address if you're planning to send in your block from June's challenge (the dark/light one).... send to : Jody Sullivan 74 West Lane, Pound Ridge, NY 10576
Thanks

Long Overdue Star for Suzanne

A Centennial Star for Suzanne, with a twist, a lot late. Really love these colors, and that grey especially has such great texture. Can't wait to see how you put all these different stars together, it should be a really dynamic quilt!

Starry Eyed!

Here is the Bee block for E, the Star of Bethlehem. That this resembles anything remotely like a star is nothing short of its own Christmas miracle! Although it is far from perfect, I am happy to report I am no longer terrified of mitered joints.

NYC Mod Bee for June - Kimberly's NYB Blocks

Here's my 2 NYB blocks for Kimberly, our June Queen Bee - I've made Blocks 0 and 7.

Haven't done paper piecing before and admit to being slightly nervous, but didn't need to be - I got together with Maren and we did a trial run with muslin first and once you get the hang of it, it's actually surprisingly easy.  Also hadn't worked with batiks before and the colours are just so vibrant that you can't do anything but love them.  I took photos and notes as I went along which are available on my blog.

I'll send them on their way to you tomorrow Kimberly and can't wait to see your finished quilt :)

Laura's Pezzy Block

This block was such fun to make!

Fun to search for summery prints to go with the pezzies

and

fun to try a new block.

 Based on the blocks already posted,

I think you will have a beautiful quilt! 

June Block Challenge

Hi all.... many of you brought or sent in your June challenge blocks.... If you still have one to offer, please send to me sooner than later, so I can start to sew them all together.  I don't want to leave out anyone who's got a block.... and is it possible to comment here to let me know if I already have your block (most didn't have names attached and Victoria would like to include them in the label).  Thanks
Jody

Block4Laura

Together and in the post today! Love your "Pez" fabric choice Laura.


mandy.munroe.wordpress.com

Laura's block

Here's the block for Laura our Lucky 13 Bee queen.  Thanks, Laura, for all the supplies and instructions.  The block was fun and is so bright and cheerful....can't wait to see all of yours together.

Hope you like it.

NYC Mod Bee - May and June Blocks!

I just finished the NYC Mod Bee blocks for May and June, and I wanted to share them with you!

May:  Cross and Crown / Golgotha block for E's bible quilt.  This was fun to make and an interesting puzzle to piece together (no instructions given on the website).  I look forward to seeing the finished quilt!

June: New York Beauty block for Kimberly's quilt.  I had never made a New York Beauty block before, and it was a definite paper piecing challenge!  We used the patterns from the Quiltalong that is going around online.  Kimberly gave us beautiful batiks to use...love them!




I also made two other Bee blocks for the South Florida Modern Quilt Guild and wanted to share them.  Great possibilities for future NYC Mod Bee projects!

You can find the free pattern HERE.

You can find the free pattern HERE.

Opposites Block and Children of Israel Block

Hi everyone, I'm new to the Guild so I'm only now getting round to posting my May Bee Block and June Challenge Block photos.

 

This is my June Challenge 'Opposites' Block made using Dear Stella Paisley Doodle in Grey and Dear Stella Solids Blue.

And here's my May Bee block for E, called 'Children of Israel'.

After creating this block I appliqued and free machine sewed the basket in the bulrushes to represent the story of Moses. 




 Looking forward to finally meeting you all in October :)

P.S. I have news

P.S. 

Pop over to my blog and site to see what I forgot to tell you Saturday!

http://www.15minutesplay.com/

http://bumblebeansinc.blogspot.com/

Cherrywood quilt

It's done and waiting to be washed, before I send it on ...  thanks Kim for binding it!

oops, better make a label too!

Well done MODS!

Block for Kati

mandymunroe.wordpress.com

Have a great trip!

June 2 Meeting Recap!

So much to inspire!

Was great to have a visitor all the way from India . . . and she brought some beautiful vibrant fabrics which some lucky winners went home with!  Thank you Vidya!

Huge thanks to Victoria for her 30+ hours quilting this gorgeous Cherrywood group quilt!

Lisa brought a very special beauty made by her friends!

Just in time for the queen's jubilee, Jackie brought in this handsome stunner!

Helen's first "try" at pieced letters . . .

Brian's 4th grandchild is getting this beauty . . .

Congratulations to Karen who is expecting twins!!!  They will certainly love this bright and cheerful quilt!

Jacqui showed us a beautiful crazy quilt made by her great-grandmother, pieced on newspaper!

This is the first quilt Sue ever made . . .

and for contrast, these are the blocks she is entering in the QuiltCon challenge!

This quilt is going to one of Carol's grandchildren, lucky for them!

Congratulations to Kendall on her Northern Star Quilt Show Art Quilt Winner!

Jenny's giving this one away today to a very lucky baby!

Jody's made this one for a lucky couple marrying in the fall . . .

Hayden and her ironing husband designed this one for her mother-in-law!

Andrea's brought in this flowery beauty!

Judy's sampler made us all ooh and aah!

Sally's leaf and vine was a beauty!

Maria's son had a big hand in helping her choose these fabrics for his quilt, gorgeous!

Yolanda awed us with her paper piecing . . . 

Pamela's modern landscape "painting" inspired by some Canadian artists . ..

We all decided we needed one of Debbie's useful padded mats!

Teri's whole cloth mini quilt was exquisite!

David was so proud to have actually finished this log cabinesque wonder, even the binding!

Cassandra is experimenting with some gorgeous hand-dyed cottons and silks on this top.

Naomi's lovely sea scape scrap quilt . . .

Andrea's tiny itty bitty triangles made us squint!

Victoria's fussy cut "triangle's galore" was beautiful!

Ivete's showed us her 1st original design made with soft organic cottons . . .

Sally's "oriental carpet" inspired by her trips to the Met!

Chris' Queen Plus sized strip quilt . . .

And last but not least, Bernadette's vortex quilt, which is the first quilt she's made just for herself . . . brought in for her SOS quilt interview done by David . . . great job David, and lots of fun to listen to!