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Everything is wrapped up, postage paid and ready to be dropped in the mail tomorrow! It was great fun putting together, hope you like it Partner!!!

June's our second month in the Modern Insta Bee, Hive 1 in the United Kingdom. The request from Catrin, our June Bee Queen was to make the Come Together block using a beach related colour scheme - blues, yellows, and neutrals. My fabric pull: To make sure the blocks all match up nicely, we were asked to use grey / neutral in the connecting blocks and yellow in the corners. This is how my block ended up looking: This block is huge! It finishes at 20"x20" when sewn into the quilt! To see the blocks from other bee members and the progress with putting the quilt together, pop over to Catrin's blog .

Schnitzel and Boo is hosting a second mini quilt swap! Image from http://www.schnitzelandboo.com Seeing all the photos of everyone's progress filling blogs and Instagram  last year, I was really annoyed I hadn't managed to sign up. This time I was ready and signed up in time. The mission: To make a mini quilt (6"x6" to 24"x24") for someone you may not know, in return someone else is making a mini quilt for you. After sign-up closed, I believe most us (six hundred people!!!!), were eagerly waiting for the email to tell us who we were making the mini for. When the email finally came, THE BIG STALKING begun! Checking out their various profiles on the internet including their photos, their blog, comments on friend's photos, etc, etc. It has been great fun trying to get to know someone's likes and dislikes in a very short time. To make it easier to find everyone participating in the swap, the following two hashtags are used: #schnitzelandboo