Look what ended up in my mailbox!

These little ladies turned up in my mailbox yesterday. They will join the other blocks in my Christmas quilt from the KC Scrappy Bee.



I'm pretty excited to see how this quilt turns out.  I'm loving all the blocks I've received so far. :)

I have some loot!

Last month I mentioned in this post how it was my month to hand out the project for the KC Scrappy Bee.  Well, I'm happy to report that I collected a whole bunch of really fun blocks at last week's KC Modern Quilt Guild meeting.  I thought I'd share with you what I collected.



I'm in love with the colors I ended up with.  I think this will turn out to be a really fun Christmas quilt. 

On another note, I know I've been a little bit sparse in my postings lately.  I've been working on a lot of projects and am not sure I can share all of them with you.  I sent out a quilt about a week and a half ago and have done 3 more since.  I've been up to Omaha twice in the last few weeks to quilt 6 different projects.  The last three I did are due on January 20th.  I just have the binding left to hand-stitch down.  Hopefully once I get through this bunch of projects, things will slow down enough for me to jump back into the blogosphere. 

It's my month for the KC Scrappy Bee!

Hi!  I thought I'd share with you what I have planned for the KC Scrappy Bee in the month of December. 

Idea

I don’t think you guys have any idea how much I love Christmas. I really, really, really LOVE Christmas. A LOT! I love the season, the shopping, and the traditions. I have wanted to make a fun Christmas quilt for myself for a very long time, but just haven’t gotten to it. I thought this would be the perfect project to have my bee help me with.

Fabric

I’d like all the blocks have a white background to make the colors really pop.  I’m giving each of my fellow bee members two fabrics: one red and one tealy-turquoise colored.







The color scheme I have in mind is kind of a fresh & cheery Christmas. I was envisioning these kinds of colors, but my bee members should feel free to add anything that fits the fresh & cheery description.



Size

My size request is a little bit odd… I’d like to lay this quilt out on a 4x4 grid. Each block just needs to fit into that grid. That means blocks that finish at 4x4, 4x8, 8x8, and 12x16 all work!

Design

Anything Christmas works for me! It could make a gingerbread house, gingerbread man, elf, candy cane, Santa, reindeer, present, mistletoe, Christmas tree, stockings, or anything else they can think of.

Links

These are some links I provided them with:
They could adapt this pattern:
http://www.quiltsoup.com/Hip_Holidays_free_pattern.pdf

I’m in love with this little elf; not so much the mushroom.
http://artisania.wordpress.com/2008/08/01/sewing-more-complex-paper-pieced-patterns/

I’ve saved some cute Christmasy things in my favorites on flickr. Here is the link:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sewbotslaboratory/favorites/

I’ve also made a mosaic of some of the blocks and quilts I found online I liked.


1. Santa Block, 2. Windblown snowman mini quilt, 3. Aurora's Xmas quilt from Frolic charm pack, 4. Caroll's Block, 5. Small Santa Quilt, 6. Sept Block, 7. The quilt is done!, 8. one more block to go., 9. { a very merry! }, 10. Santa's Elf, 11. Lil' St. Nick, 12. WIP 7 - SewConnected 2 Quilt, 13. Mrs. Claus, 14. for Beth, 15. Tree and gnome, 16. building a neighborhood

The links below the mosaic are to the original photos.  You can click on the links to see them. 

I can't wait to see what they each come up with!