Here we are in May! How did we get here so quickly? May also means that my month for being the queen bee for our Gridster bee is NEXT month. That means I need to get my act together and make a choice as to what I want my fellow bee mates to stitch for me.
I have so enjoyed each of the blocks that have been chosen this year. We've had pigs, bees and pineapples in the mix. Such fun! I've been playing around with a couple of blocks that I thought might interest me. I admired the kaleidoscope block from Crazy Mom Quilts and made a few to test them out.
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| Crazy Mom Quilts Kaleidoscope free block in her Craftsy shop. |
Next up I tried a Confetti Star block that was a choice in our bee from last year. I loved it when we did it and found all of the completed stars stunning together.
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| Confetti Star free block by Amy Friend, duringquiettime.com |
I finally tried a totally scrappy strip block, but it did not do much for me. I think it would be a fun strippy block pattern, but not for my bee choice. In the end I decided that I will use the Confetti Star block. It will be fun to get different stars from fabrics not in my stash.
One more month of geese is completed for my Temperature Quilt 2017. As you can see, there were no blues in this month - definitely a warmer month. May is also looking good so far with the oranges in there, but today is cooler and drizzly. ;-(
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| Temperature Quilt 2017 |
I managed to finally get my En Provence top quilted this week. The binding is stitched down and I will now spend some quiet time hand stitching it down. This was such a pretty Bonnie Hunter QAL this year.
May is always such a busy month in our household with seven birthdays, Mother's Day and our anniversary. There will also be five graduations as well as a Confirmation and First Communion. It will be endless celebrating here.
