Blue Skies and Lemonade

My favorite things or a few things are blue sky and lemonade.  Yum.. So I decided to make a quilt with that theme.  Actually my starting point was a photo from Design Seeds.  Lemons in a sky blue colander is a wonderful stepping off point don't you think?

 The block is from Tickle and Hide blog and is simple effective. It would also make a great scrappy or monotone colored quilt too. So after getting everyone's blocks back and pressed, I put them on the design wall, played with turning them this way and that to find the perfect composition.

From there it was off to the long armers for a spell to get the perfect treatment. A white thread in a double leaf on a vine pattern.  You can see it better in the photo below.

Tilting at Windmills

Now that my baby has returned from the sewing machine spa, I have been busy working it out.  Cutting, sewing and pressing windmill blocks for my turn at Joy do good stitches. 

I found the pattern on the blog of Tickle and Hide. The blocks are pretty easy to make and are great at using all those scraps that build up.  I chose a color combination of grey, lemon and turquoise inspired by a Design Seeds photo. 

If you are like me and have a bunch of 2.5 inch strips this is a good project to use them up.  Or if you have a collection of pre cut strips, they would be very effective in this pattern.  I have a collection of bali pops that would particularly lovely in a linen background. But that is another project.   In the meantime I will put these blocks together and add them to the blocks that the group is making and come out with a fairly large quilt to go to a worthy charity.  Not sure which charity at this time must do some thinking on that but I am sure that something will come to me.

Aug Bee block for Joy do good stitches

aug bee block for Joy do good stitches, a photo by NavyRev on Flickr.

Once more it is my turn to come up with the bee blocks for this month. After searching various blogs, and color inspirations I came across a blog called Tickle and Hide where I found a gorgeous Windmill block tutorial.  While her blocks were made from grey and purple, I decided to go with colors of grey, yellow and turquoise. The inspiration for that came from Design Seeds one of my favorite color inspiration blogs. Here is the link, Design Seeds.

I think that this will be a lovely bright and sunny quilt that will be a great donation to anyone who will receive it.