Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Bee Vintage Blocks for July {Sawtooth Star}

Thanks to the Vintage Sheet Patchwork Swap, I have joined my first virtual quilting bee. We call ourselves Bee Vintage and we are making blocks using our vintage sheet stashes.

July was the start of the swap. I got brave and decided to be first. For my block I chose the Sawtooth Star Block. (Instructions are here.) Because the blocks finish at a small 8 inches I had to make some extra blocks to get my quilt to the right size.


Here are the ones I made up.

I've said before how much I like scrap-looking quilts. This one will be no different. As you can see I'm kind of all over the place with fabrics, but when I laid them out together it didn't look nearly as chaotic as these picture appears.

Bee Vintage Group 2 is making string blocks for July. Go check theirs out, too. I'm pretty sure that someone in my group is going to chose that style when it's their month so I am already collecting my "strings" in anticipation.

3 comments:

  1. I love the way those turned out. The material you picked looks awesome. I think my favorites are the top two. But they all look really nice and very vintage!

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  2. So glad to hear you're saving your strings... I've decided that is the way to go when it's my month. Still deciding on a solid to go with them, though... :)

    Your blue block is just stunning!

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  3. These will look so fun when put all together. I think these stars were a great choice.

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