the lost Tuesday - Building Blocks Tuesday

There must be something wrong with me (well, other than the obvious things).  I just can't seem to remember Tuesday.  I have Monday under control, but then I'm lost.  Tuesday just feels like all the other weekdays.  Perhaps it is because I haven't been making very many blocks to show off lately.  I seem to do my bee blocks in spurts, usually at the beginning of the month, and then I just work on whatever is highest on my priority list.

I clearly need to remember that Tuesday is a day to celebrate!  This Tuesday, I want to share one of the Bee Hive blocks I made for Janet.  She requested Alison Glass fabrics for the X of this Tic Tac Toe block, and wanted low volume text prints for the corners.  I am shamefully low on text prints at the moment, so luckily she fancied this little measuring tape fabric.





I think it turned out pretty striking, don't you?

Hopefully, next week Tuesday will not be lost in the far corners of my mind.

What blocks have you working on this week?  I would love to see.  Link up your fabulous blocks.  You put a lot of hard work into them - show them off!  This free linky will stay open until the first Monday of next month, but I will repost it every Tuesday until a new month starts.

Rules:

1) Please link up only to the page in your blog showing your wonderful blocks, not just the blog homepage.  Flickr and Instagram pictures are also OK.
2) Make sure to put your blog name as the description so people know where they are going or the name of your block!
3) Please grab my button and post it in your blog post or sidebar.
4) Visit other linky participants!

Thanks for reading,

Jen

An InLinkz Link-up

Beauty of Freedom - Blogger's Quilt Festival entry 2

Welcome viewers from the Blogger's Quilt Festival at Amy's Creative Side.  If you are new here, feel free to look around!

Thank you for considering my "Beauty of Freedom" for your vote in the Large Quilt Category.

This quilt was a UFO forever!  Shortly after learning to paper piece, I couldn't wait to try out a New York Beauty pattern.  I cut out all my fabric and got about half the blocks done before moving on to something new and shiny.  It was only with the encouragement from the ladies in my Lazy Bum group (a group dedicated to motivating you to finish UFOs) that I dug out this project and finished it.  I'm so happy I did.

A dear friend of mine, Debra Claypool, helped me with the quilting.  My tendency to want to quilt the daylights out of everything I make, has really delayed a lot of my projects.  Without Debra's help, this quilt would still be in my UFO pile.  Instead, it was recently auctioned off for charity.



I submitted it to be auctioned off last month at the Blue Jay Quilt Walk in Blue Jay, CA.  All of the proceeds from the auction benefit nearby Camp Paivika, a camp for moderate to severely handicap people (not just kids).  It really felt great to not only have this quilt finished, but to see it go to such a worthy cause.


Quilt Stats:

Size: approximately 72" x 72"
Quilt Pattern: from an old issue of American Patchwork and Quilting (I am not sure which one as I recycled it)
Fabric: miscellaneous
Pieced by: Me
Quilted by: Debra Claypool


Thank you again for consideration for your vote!

And thanks for reading today,

Jen

Aprons on the Line - Blogger's Quilt Festival entry 1

Welcome Blogger's Quilt Festival viewers.  If you are new here, feel free to have a look around.

Thank you for considering my "Aprons on the Line" mini for this year's festival at Amy's Creative Side.  It was a lot of fun to make for my partner in the Spring Fling Mini Swap on Instagram.

My partner was a big fan of Lori Holt at Bee in my Bonnet, and I happened to have some of her fabric on hand.  Finding a pattern that would go with the vintage feel wasn't too hard either.  I had one of Eleanor Burns' books, Quilts from El's Kitchen (Quilt in a Day) (affiliate link).  It has some really cute blocks and projects in it.

In case you are wondering, YES, those are tiny hexies!

I can't imagine making a whole quilt from these size hexies, but some people do!

Thank you again for considering my quilt for the mini category.

Quilt Stats:

Quilt Size: approximately 17" x 19"
Quilt Pattern: by Eleanor Burns
Fabric: various Lori Holt
Pieced by: Me
Quilted by: Me

Thanks for reading today,


Jen