Bring on the strippers!

Possibly the worst kept Top Secret Bee in the history of Top Secret Bees, but March sees the start of 'Stitch Tease - an international Quilt Bee'; there have been rather a lot of clues.

You may have spotted this button around...





Or seen my inspiration mosaic on flickr...

So now it's time for the grand reveal.

8 International Ladies of Mystery, myself included, have teamed up, under the command of our great leader Di, to form a modern Round Robin, without the round, and quite possibly without the robin too, to make blocks, yes there are a few squares in this Bee ;) or in my case strips, wa-hey!  These will be made for each other and will all be collected and made into a quilt top before being sent back to their owner.

We will only have sneak peaks allowed online, although emails will be flying, filling in the others with how the quilts are progressing, but none of us will know exactly how our own quilt will look until about a years time when it lands on the doormat!

Now, although it appears my fellow Bees were expecting me to come up with some wild and  complicated request, as if, I think I have the least complex idea of the lot.  I am a lady of simple pleasures don't you know.

I am asking for 10" x 60" strips of square and rectangular (non-wonky) blocks, and included within the strip, 5 or 6 white squares.

So here is my starter block, photographed as the sun was setting...

It was a little trickier to put together than it may appear at first glance, as all the blocks are different sizes and need to fit together jigsaw-puzzle-like.

Many of the fabrics are favourites, many are treasured scraps, and all are different.  I have asked for predominately turquoisey-orangey-greeny colours, although there are touches of grey, pink and red in there to spice things up too.

We have also chosen a fabric to include in all the blocks we make; mine is the Cloud 9 Herons.  My village has a heron as its symbol, so I thought this was very apt...

I am hoping that my quilt will have such a wonderful range of prints in it, so that it will be a total fabric-loving joy to own.   I am really looking forward to testing myself on the other's blocks now, which will include lots of stars, paper-piecing and other fun and games!

Bring it on!