For the Boys!

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Today was our last Bee Blessed get together before the summer break!

The Plus quilt top (kindly donated by Katie) was quilted and the binding attached.

Shannon got a wonky cross quilt made for a boy of 10.

And for his little brother, she got the asterisk blocks sewn together (with a few leftover blocks added in) and today I quilted it.

These 2 quilts will be donated this week to these boys whose family lost their home in a fire.



And some of our spare blocks which have been donated and made over the past 2 years have been quilted up and will be on their way to Alison this week for her Soy Amado project.

There was of course lots of other important activities happening at Bee Blessed today (eating homemade lemon cake being one of them!). 

Thank you for all your lovely scrappy bow ties that have come in so far.  Please feel free to continue making them over the summer, we would love to have them ready for when we get back together in September.

Jude xo

Caring for Bees and Orphans!

When I visit my lovely Brit Bees, I always come away with more than I arrive!

I have unashamedly pinched some of these pics from Susan's blog. Hadley made us all these fab Brit Bee key fobs, and my ridiculous grin there on the right is because I'm holding a beautiful gift quilt from Trudi! Just the binding to stitch down and then I'll take some proper pics of it, promise!

You may have seen this Heather Ross quilt recently on Susan's blog.  She is gifting it to Bee Blessed - thank you my lovely!

Ceri passed me some of her 'early works' to use for Bee Blessed or other good cause.  As the blocks were all bigger than 12.5" I decided to quilt them, then trim them down to 12.5" and send them over to Alison for her Mexican Quilts Appeal (Soy Amado).  Alison will sew all donated quilted blocks together to make quilts for former street kids in Mexico. Take some time to read about her visit at Christmas and the inspiration behind this great cause.

On Saturday I'm teaching my first Crochet workshop.  I wanted to have a wee sample of crochet edging to add to my growing pile of samples, so I edged this summery vintage pillowcase.

I think edged pillowcases are so pretty! I could also see this edging being used along the bottom of a summery skirt!  Another idea to add to my 'bucket list'!

Have a lovely day!

Jude xo