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Friday 2 March 2012

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...



Stitch Tease


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!

21 comments:

  1. Ah, I'm sorry I couldn't participate in this little adventure ! Your strip looks lovely, and a tad of a challenge in itself!! I love the Cloud Nine Herons fabric! What a great idea!!

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  2. I'm really looking forward to seeing what you get back next year!! Such a good idea!

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  3. Very fun idea! I love the strip you've started on. Should be fun to see them come together!

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  4. Wow! talk about quick off the mark! You put the rest of us to shame!!

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  5. AWESOME! I can't wait to watch this grow.

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  6. exciting idea, it'll be brill it see this expand...and I'm so glad the bunnies made it into the line-up :) x

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  7. Oh my goodness, you`re done already! I love your strip and now wondering if I should change to strips. Yikes. I need to get my design sorted. Love the heron symbolism.

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  8. What no brown! Hee heee,looks like fun, I can't wait to see what it will look like in the end.

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  9. Looks fabulous. I'm going to use all the fuglies I won from Fiona when it's my turn! HeeHee! Would I dare!?

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  10. Geez, get the teacher's pet that's done already ;o) Love your strip though, great collection of fabrics. Now where did I put that brown batik...?

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  11. Thanks for making me smile. But then you usually do! Great fabrics in your block. Makes me wonder what others will come up with. Looking forward to it.

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  12. Wow so gorgeous. I love looking at peoples make and seeing the fabrics I have in different colours =D

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  13. More inspiration for my stained down under blocks - thank you! (it's lovely!!, and will be fab when it's returned!

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  14. I was amazed at how much you accomplished on the (totally selfish) sewing front in February and then you announce this. Wow - do you sleep at night?
    I love your colors and the way it went together. Happy thoughts on the outcome.

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  15. It sounds like you are going to have a great time with this bee, I was reading about it on Di's blog too. Your start is lovely.

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  16. Look at you, now you get to sit around for 6 weeks without anything to do (HA!, HA!) I love your strip and already have ideas but will wait my turn.

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  17. Where on earth do you find the time? You truly are a super woman! xx

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  18. Wow what a fab block - that's going to be an amazing quilt you get back!

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  19. it looks brilliant, going to be a fab quilt. I love the blockiness of it!

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  20. You have created quite the fun center strip. They will have such fun!!!

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