Bee Positive 2 Quilt

I have finished up the Bee Positive 2 quilt for Father Cooper!  The binding was the last thing.  

I had much help with applying this!

 Her eyes matched the quilt!

This, though, was truly obnoxious!  I had to move her with the quilt!

Here it is in all it's glory!
I am completely smitten with this.

I can't wait to do a quilt along with this block!
Don't forget to stop back in January for a Bee Positive Quilt Along.
I hope you all are as excited as I am for this!!!

I know you may not think you can do it but trust me you totally can!
They are very addicting to make though so watch out.
You will begin and then get lost in the process.
I found it difficult to stop once I began.

I made a few improv pieced crosses for the back and I love how they came out too.
They were pretty time consuming to make but I love the finished look.

I put them next to the blocks that were signed by everyone in the parish.
Yes, it is a pretty small church.

You can see the lay out of the entire back in this photo.

I did embroider a label that I sewed into the back.
As I may have already stated, I really don't like making labels so this is my new way.
Embroider the label and put it into the back.
No label to sew on when the quilt is finished!

Just in case you have not noticed the spectacular quilting(done by my friend Liz) here is a close up.

My plan is to give this to Father Cooper's mom on Sunday so he will have it soon.

I am going to link up to Finish It Up Friday over at Crazy Mom Quilts.

Have a wonderful weekend and

GO STATE!!

~XOP~

Bee Positive Quilt Along Anyone??

I have a friend that is making a quilt for another one of her friends that has cancer. 

 She called me to tell me that she is copying off of me (LOL) and making a + quilt for her friend. 

 I offered to make a few blocks and send to her as they are fun to make and go together quickly. 

 Her color scheme is purple, pink and orange. 

 Interesting, but as it turns out really pretty when finished.  

Here are the 8 blocks I made for her.  

I posted these on Instagram and there were several people that thought this was great and wanted to know how to make them. 

 I thought about it for a bit and it seems like there is some interest in learning the technique to make the blocks and to learn how to put it all together.

  

I have decided that I will run a Bee Positive Quilt Along. 

I will begin in January and we will talk about fabric selection then.  

Next up will be me showing you how I build the blocks and then you are off to do this.  

After that we will go on to talk about assembling the rows and finally about putting the rows together.  Sound like fun?  

These blocks would be a great way to use up scraps.  

You could go totally scrappy or use just a few colors.  Make it bed sized or lap sized.  

These quilts really lend themselves to charity quilts too.

So after I was done making blocks I decided that extra pie crust needed to be used up. 

 I cut out some circles, and put them in the muffin cups. 

 I opened a can of peach pie filling and used the left over dough to cut into strips for the top. 

 I brushed the tops with egg and sprinkled raw sugar over the top. 

 Popped them into the oven for 20 minutes at 375 and VIOLA Individual peach pies!!

Cats be like,"Hey what do you think that crazy woman is doing in the kitchen?" 

Pardon the dog food bag, I use this for paper recycling!

So please let me know if anyone is even remotely interested in learning this technique and how to make a great + quilt and we will make that happen in January.

~XOP~