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Back in 2015 I was part of the Scandibee Quilting Bee. For my month, I asked everyone to make me houses for Scandibee Road. Since then I have had many, many ideas on how to assemble the quilt, but not yet sewn it all together. This year I made a few more houses, as part of a block of the month in UK Quilters United, and also quite a few trees.

Looking through the posts on the blog, I realised I haven't actually blogged about the ScandiBee blocks I've made SINCE FEBRUARY!!!! Everything has been shared on Instagram, but nothing on the blog. I've said it before, and I'll say it again; Instagram really kills my blog! For December, Hanne asked us to make the "X marks the spot" block, in any colours we liked.  It is not a difficult block, but it is rather time consuming. 28 HSTs, four smaller solid squares and one larger patterned square, for each of the blocks. That's a lot of cutting and trimming..... As I had cut the first two blocks in scrappy coloured fabric, and the instructions later was confirmed as exactly five fabrics plus low volume for the background, I ended up making four blocks. The yellow and blue are "as per specifications", whereas the red and pink are using too many fabrics. Still, the red one is my favourite.  Each block ends up at 12 1/2 inch square. For t...

Gathering ideas for my own month of Queen Bee in the ScandiBee, I pinned a spider web block from Quilters' Cache to our joint Pinterest board. Little did I know, that less than 10 mins later Lizzie was going to pin the same block to the same board!!! Great minds.... For February, Lizzie asked us to make scrappy spider web blocks with a red centre. The tutorial she picked came from  Sewing by Moonlight  and was pretty straight forward. The test square (1 inch) on the template even printed the correct size the first time for me! In my blocks for Lizzie, I have included some of the sport bike fabric by Alexander Henry which I sent her as an extra in the Schnitzel and Boo mini swap last year. The text print from the hedgehog I sent her, is also in one of these blocks. I also used some cute birdies which she had said she loved for the centre, some Karen Lewis prints, Union Jacks, British printed lilies,  Lotta Jansdotter, Katy Jones, Kate Spain, Cath Kidson, Tula Pin...

Stina, blogging as KviltStina , kicked off our Scandinavian quilting bee, by requesting us to dig into our our favourite fabrics and creating strip blocks for her. She asked that one should be in our favourite colour, as long a sit wasn't brown.... The other block should be low volume. I was tempted to make one in blue, but  one of the other bee members (Anne) rocks the blue and turquoise spectrum, so I opted to use purple and lilac. I tried to select the more colourful fabrics I had as Stina had asked for bright and happy. Below was the pull I showed Stina. Being polite she said she loved them alll...... The block was very simple to stitch togtehr, so most of the time was spent selecting fabrics. I didn't have much low volume at home, but with the Internet and Fabrics Galore close by, I could get hold of what I needed. In the end, these were the two requested blocks plus one bonus block which I sent off to Stina. I also included some left over low volume (and some...

We have a blog button! How cool is that!?!?!? It was made by the other Nina , using Stina 's finished bee quilt. LOVE IT!! Thanks Nina xxx

In January 2015, we are kicking off a quilting bee called Scandi Bee. As the name suggests, it's for quilters living in or connected to the Scandinavian countries. As a starter, we decided to make each other a mug rug for Christmas. We were split in two groups and one person from the other group allocated partners for us. Stalking my partner on Instagram and Flickr, plus looking at her specially created inspiration mosaic, I decided it was time to make my first ever Dresden. Or, as it turned out, a quarter of a Dresden. Her feeds are very colourful, so I'm hoping this little cutie hits the spot. Confession time; the bird and the branches are actually one piece of home dec fabric, on which I appliquéd the Dresden flower / sun. It feels great when an idea pops up, which then is possible to execute with the right fabrics. #scandibee