Quilting Bee October Block

Here's the October block for my quilting bee. Wen is making a bento box quilt out of thrifted sheets. She'll cut each of these blocks into four, then shuffle them and sew them back together, like this.

Piecey Notepad Cover

Can you tell I'm using up all my black and white scraps? Here's my last notepad cover. On to new things now.

Pieced Pillow Top

At 16 1/2 by 16 1/2, this turned out perfectly for a pillow form - no idea how that happened :). It ended up being a lot of work with 200 triangles, but I like how it's turning out.

First Christmas Gift Done

I've finished my first handmade Christmas gift. I used my own tutorial, so I know it works :). On its own, or pair this up with a key wristlet, tissue cozy and/or checkbook cover, and you've got a great gift!

Quilted Pillow Project - we've just begun

I've seen so many gorgeous quilted pillows on flickr, I just had to start one for myself. Now that I've started it, I'm not sure why I made the triangles so tiny! This is only 10 inches square! I think I want to use a 16 inch pillow form, so I've got more piecing to do.

Finished Zig Zag Top

Here she is all pieced. I'm thinking about piecing a back of all white with one zig zag row across. I'm not very satisfied with my color arrangment in the quilt, but I did really enjoy learning a new technique, making a zig zag quilt for the first time, and working with a very saturated fabric line. Fun!

Wonky Star Block for Charity

AmandaJean over at Crazy Mom Quilts asked for contributions of wonky star blocks to make two quilts for Quilts of Valor. I decided to pitch in. She links to a good tutorial. As you can see I need to work on wonkiness, but I think it is good for a first try.