Bee Inspired's September Queen Jen gave us all a lesson in the color wheel when she asked for LeMoyne Star blocks in tertiary colors. I had to go shopping for this one. This was my first LeMoyne Star and I am completely in love!
September Queen Debbie from Stash Bee asked for tulip blocks. Debbie has been super generous to everyone in our hive, so I wanted to make her two blocks.
In October, it happens that Janice was Queen in both bees! So I could chain piece her blocks. She picked a scrappy block and asked for high contrast between the two fabrics. If you look closely, you'll see that one of the blocks for Queen Janice has the same 2 fabrics as Queen Jen's LeMoyne Star from September.
Stash Bee has 9 hives, and one of the queens from another hive asked for bookshelf blocks to make into a quilt for her 80-year-old uncle. He's a voracious reader and especially loves westerns, so she wanted cowboy/western themed blocks. This was a perfect storm for me: I'm a librarian, I'm making my own bookshelf quilt (including blocks from last year's Stash Bee), I love novelty fabrics, and my mom is a big fan of cowboys/western things so she's given me several fabrics that would work. So I crashed that hive and made a cowboy bookshelf for Queen Kim.
I love my online bees and the variety I get to make for people! If you are interested in joining a Bee, Stash Bee sign-ups for 2018 open on November 1st.
Lovely blocks! I repeated the fabrics from month to month as well! That cowboy bookshelf will be a fantastic quilt!
ReplyDeleteAll of these blocks turned out beautiful! And I love reading about a good bee hive crashing :)
ReplyDeleteSo much joy and color in your studio!!! Love all your blocks but the book with the young cowboy just stole my heart.
ReplyDeleteVery fun stash bee blocks. The western books library block turned out beautifully.
ReplyDeleteOh, that cowboy book block is too cute!!!!
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