International Stash Busting Bee Block #1
So, I have stumbled across the world of quilting bees–12 ladies, 12 months & 1 quilt for each. Each month is a different person’s month–they send out their fabric(s) and the other 11 ladies make a block and send it back. For the stash busting bee that I am in, each lady sends a small piece of fabric to everyone and we pull from our stashes to make the block.
The first fabric I received couldn’t have worked any better for me:
The fabric in the forefront is the fabric that was sent to me–the rather embarrasingly large stack in the back are fabrics from my stash and these aren’t even all of them that coordinate. We were supposed to create a 12.5 in. block utilizing either pinwheels or stars & here’s what I came up with: