I had bee tonight. I'm in two bees: one through my guild and one with the gals I used to work with. Tonight was the latter. I had a hard time finding something to bring with me to work on. I just finished two of my projects and am finishing up backs for those. The wedding quilt is not movable at all (still on the design wall). My wall hanging needs applique and decorative stitching done--that is work for the 6600 (and that machine is too big to haul around for a bee). So I dug around in my stuff and came up with a box of at least 2+ year old Buck-a-Block kits from a local quilt shop, Pieceful Heart Fabrics, that I think I signed up for at the start of 2005! I'd forgotten all about these.
The blocks are basically 4 x 4 layouts made using Thangles in the 1.75" size. They offered several colorways/styles--I chose reproduction fabrics. Between the one-per-month block packets and a few blocks I made using leftovers from the fabric strips, I should end up with about 18 blocks that will finish to 6 1/2" square (not too big). I am thinking I will do a strippy layout with the blocks on point set with very neutral setting triangles and strips of a large scale floral. Will have to do a layout in EQ6 to see what size quilt I can wrangle up with 18 blocks. They chose a pretty wide array of colors, so a large scale repro floral that will play nice with all the different fabrics might be a bit challenging to find.
Tonight when I was looking at all the blocks I made two years ago, I was kind of surprised--I must have really upped my standards over the last couple years! Some of the blocks don't look too square and some of the seams weren't all that straight. I have no plans to re-do any of these--it's just interesting to see that my skills/expectations have moved up some. Regardless, this should result in a nice lap quilt. At now least I have a travelling project that I can pack up and take to bees!
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