Blocks keep arriving

Bee in Oz blocks

Seven blocks have arrived from overseas and Australia, plus the block I made that makes eight. That leaves four more to come, including one from India where Shruti lives but no one has heard from here for a while and her blog has gone, disappeared in blogsphere.
These blocks will be set on point with the cream Kona as setting triangles, I'm liking how this is turning out, it will be one big quilt.

Bee in Oz - August Queen Bee

All the parcels ready to be posted

Kaffe Fasset jellyroll plus a few extras

the coordinating fabric
(photo is a bit fuzzy)

the block

August I am Queen bee in the Bee in Oz quilting bee. The block I am having made is being enlarged from the original. The bottom photo shows a quarter of the block in original and enlarged design. I have had the Kaffe Fasset jellyroll sitting in a draw for a while and decided to use it as the base for the block, originally I had picked a brown grey as one of the coordinating fabrics but it was just too dark, I replaced it with a Kona cream. I had to add a couple of strips from my stash as part of my Hancocks parcel is still missing, well not missing just not arrived yet, it is another jellyroll of Kaffe fabric and was posted 30th June so should be here already.

Bee in Oz - July

bee in oz block for Kate

This is the block I made today for Kate, July is her month in the Bee in Oz quilting bee. It was a tutorial over on Samelia's Mum blog. Anorina is part of our bee so I think it is extra special for her to have this done as a bee block.

March already........

for my February finishes I did my mug rug swap, Bee in Oz blocks, Block swap adventure blocks, knitted a Caressa express cardigan and a dozen or so hexagons. The fabric in the second photo came from a friend, Karen. She had cleaned her sewing room a had a pile of scrap fabric did I want it, who would say no. Anything that was cotton I cut into hexagon shapes, all the dress, fancy fabric I gave to Kate for playgroup, MOPS, or Girls Brigade to use.

The beginning of something, using up scraps, all the centres
are the same bone fabric from IKEA 

This is all cut ready to sew, fabric from a friend

from this

to this

I knitted the first cardigan for Kate in 2008 and took it to London when we went to visited them. It came home never worn as I had forgotten to adjust the button holes for my 5' 11" (180cm) daughter. So last month we pulled it to pieces, unknitted it and re-knitted it into the second one. The colour of the wool is that of the first cardigan. When I can I will take a photo of Kate in the cardigan but given she is 3 months off having baby number 2 and it is still very warm that could be a while. I am very pleased with how it looks - just like the book.