Japandi - a bee quilt

Japandi

57" x 49" 

improv

crosshatch organic quilting

a BeeUtifully Modern Bee quilt

my Bee mates: Jen, Phyllis, Liz and Judy 

This quilt is the first blocks my beemates and I made together. 

I was up for Queen Bee first and I chose a combination of Japans wabi-sabi style mixed with the clean natural lines of Scandinavian design. Throw in asking for making your own stripes and a neutral palette and you get Japandi style!

It took me 2 full length audio books to piece the blocks together once they were turned in. I think I figured close to 22 hours. It was a challenge to create balance and use up all the bits. 

It is hard to tell from here but some of those little bits are tiny tiny bits, skinny lines and stripes. 

With our Bee if you want your piece bigger you have to make quite a few blocks and bits to fill in. In this quilt each person made one big block and then gave me all the scraps they had leftover. I worked to piece almost all of that into this beauty. 

Here you can see the back and the leftovers plus the organic cross hatch quilting. I had glare but still I love this photo.

The label was super fun. Phyllis was taking some sketchbook tutorials and one was to sketch faces without picking up your pencil. I tried a few and then took on drawing a group shot of my beemates. It turned out pretty good and I decided it would make a perfect label. 

So I admit...I needed a neutral wall for this photo shoot and this office building was deserted. I drove around back to find this space. I really did check to see if it said no trespassing. I saw a tiny sign on my way out ...oops!!!! I think if they saw me taking this photos on their cameras they would have laughed. 

Since this photo I heard they fenced it up. Well....it did make for a pretty great photo upclose. :)

Not sure why it has taken me so long to share this one. I really really love it. 

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