I love a party!

Hello! My name is Vickie and I live in  a small town in the gently rolling hills of Kansas. I am happy to participate in the Quilt Story Block Party. There is so much inspiration and tons of wonderful ideas on flickr. I am happy to be a part of the fun. It is always a good day to 'play', especially when it is so white outside and you love color! So...

Traditional: Flying Geese

My traditional block is made with Amy Butler's love fabric, which is significant for me as I began quilting a few years ago because I saw her fabric in a quilt. It was a "this is not your grandma's pastime" moment and I knew I wanted to work with all that wonderfully colorful and delightfully designed fabric! I don't know why flying geese have intrigued me, with their points to meet, but they have. I especially like that the dark geese in this block are actually two different fabrics in similar colors that have been pieced. I made this block for The Quilting Journey Round Robin Bee's quiltalong, so I get to keep it.

Modern: Pinwheel in a Star

My modern block also comes from The Quilting Journey Round Robin Bee. The pattern is from Hanies and is now living with Melissa who requested pinwheel blocks.  The colors of her starter block were fresh and bright, so this block was really fun to make. I love that white inner border that breaks up the star!

Creative: Cindy's Park Applique

I made this applique park for a quilt that is going to be a neighborhood, also from The Quilting Journey Round Robin Bee. Cindy requested anything that would be found in a neighborhood and sent a modern house block as her starter block. By the time I received the group of blocks, there were several houses, a dog house and some people, so I thought about adding a place for those dogs to take a walk, thus the park was 'born'. I don't know where that bird came from. He just showed up one day, so I let him stay.

QJRR Bee block for Victoria

Another fun block to make. Victoria said we could put something in the center of the block if we would like. I like. I thought about it for quite a while before I settled on this.



Here are our blocks together. This is going to be an adorable quilt! (Sorry the color is a bit distorted--it was dreary outside)





I loved sifting through my fabrics and finding fun bits and pieces to add to the quilt. And I couldn't resist the "V".





I found a font I liked, and enlarged it on my computer screen and simply traced it from there onto my steam a seam. 





I hand stitched the raw edge applique initial, mainly because my sewing machine chose that time to quit working properly. I hope she likes it as much as I do.

Bee Blocks and Something Fun!

I finished my latest block for "A Quilting Journey Round Robin Bee". I followed this tutorial. Her directions are great and it was really fun and easy to make. If you would like to see my with the other blocks that are now on their way to Lisa,  look here.

This block was for Jennifer from "Sew Bee It".

And this one is for Tanyaisis for "Fussy Cut Love".

I am also working on this for Deacon. It is raw edge applique.

Paper Piecing Fun

The girls were in and saw this quilt block.

They couldn't believe it was "do-able" so I made this one while they watched to demo the process.

A sew-along was set up with a quilt top for baby Garrett (due any day) to be the result and these are what we have so far! :)

Lesha did the Monkey Pilot Plane, Kelsi the Owl Sailboat, Marcie the Doggie Patchwork Heart and the Ladybug, Brianna (Garrett's mama), the Chicken and new grandma-to-be, Chris, did the Mousie Green Fish.

Here are some photos of the evening of fun!!!

Paper Piecing Fun, originally uploaded by myfullcolorlife - Vickie.