And here we are in
May already! Here’s what I worked on in April.
For Stash Bee, T (@t.schireson) asked us for
stars on a deep blue background. This is the St Louis Star I made for her.
Frankly I’m very proud of the way it turned out, although this is not the first
time I’ve made them. A few years ago in my pre-blog days I made a quilt for my
Mum with these stars so that gave me plenty of practice! T begged to see it so
you can get a look at it over here on Instagram if you’re curious. The tutorial for the block and the quilt
can be found at Lily’s Quilts, with guest blogger Jess from Elven Garden Quilts.
I went to my home
town of Adelaide in South Australia over Easter to catch up with family and I
decided to take a hand sewing project with me. It’s been a long time since I
did needle turn applique and I am seriously rusty. I had actually planned to
make circles but they were an absolute disgrace and any shape BUT circular so I
decided to simplify things and make them octagons instead. I’m enjoying it and
made good progress while I was away, but I’m currently suffering from ‘social
media neck’ and that progress has come to a stop while I wait for it to
recover. I blame too many hours looking at Pinterest while I was on holidays.
Actually I think too many hours on Pinterest can be blamed for many things…
My latest project is
for the Pantone Quilt Challenge and involves making a lot of green HSTs. Are
any of you entering? This year it’s being hosted by Sarah at {no} hats in the house and
Rebecca from Bryan House Quilts.
You’ve got until the end of May - plenty of time! More details here
or here.
This month’s Bee
Inspired queen, Velda from GRANNYcanQUILT has sworn us to secrecy so that we can have a “guess the
maker” line-up once she’s received all the blocks. That means there’s nothing
to show for now. I do, however, have a couple more blocks to show you from my
month as queen. These, from Janice at Color, Creating and Quilting and Jennifer at the Inquiring Quilter,
came in after the last block round up post.
