My year-end energy level is high right now and boy did I need it to tackle my sewing room. Stacks, stacks, and stacks-on-top-of-stacks. Best not to dwell on the number of jumbo storage bags I added to the WIP box.

Several items just had to be done including the Virtual Quilting Bee blocks. I enjoyed every minute.

Morgan’s October block fabric included the yellow print with white/red/brown flowers (large yellow square on the left), the blue flower print in the center, and the white kona cotton. Her request was for rectangles and squares but not a log cabin.

I had a very hard time getting my arms around a design. I eventually threw away my pencil sketches and started playing with colors and shapes in Illustrator. I used four colors (red, yellow, blue, and white). My goal was to not have any of the colors touch itself. I keep looking to see if I missed any

Here’s the Illustrator design:

Next up was November’s block for Alicia. She made it really easy. A nine-patch block. Prints alternating with white kona cotton (half of us made blocks with 5 prints, the other half did blocks with 4 prints). She provided the white cotton and a single print for one of the squares (the square in the upper left-hand corner of my block). I realized how loud my fabric stash was as I dug for delicate prints to match Alicia’s gorgeous fabric!

The group made a decision to take December off so I’m officially caught up and ready for the new year. Yippeee! Mama Urchin, our fearless and ever patient leader, came up with the idea to use our leftover block fabrics to create nine-patch blocks for a charity quilt. More to come on that after the quilting bee completes its cycle in the Spring. I sewed up several of those too:

And if all that wasn’t enough to impress, I took all these blocks along with September’s block (yes, it’s been on my design wall for two months, embarrassing!), put them in an envelope, and dropped them in the mail today. I’m still in disbelief.

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