January's Block

In lieu of participating in a ton of swaps this year, I thought I'd try this whole virtual quilting bee thing. Almost all of my blog friends participate in one, or in most cases a lot more, online bees. They all operate a little differently.

I joined one started by Traceyjay called the VIBees (that's for Very Important, dontcha know!). Each of us will have a month where we send out packages of fabric to the other 12 participants with instructions for the block we want them to make.

January belongs to Cherie and she's having us make kitchen window blocks similar to the quilt in Elizabeth Hartman's new book. She sent a lovely package of Meadowsweet II with Kona coal and stone for sashing. We had to design the windows part of the block ourselves. Graph paper is my friend. It's a good thing I liberated several computation pads from my last job!

I even did a set in square for the first time and it worked out perfectly. Can you spot it?