Well, yes indeed, after 25 plus years of sewing and never having participated in a quilting bee or block exchange, here I am in not one but two bees this year!  This one was started by three of my favorite Instagram friends, Jessica, Lisa and Lisa.  We were all ooooohhh and aaahhh about Lindsey Connor’s Modern Bee book.  It is a delightful book that provides 13 quilts to make with friends.

And what started as a lark grew into a hive and grew into more hives!  I lost count but I believe there are fourteen now!  And from what I have seen on Instagram there is now an Australian chapter!

So if you are on Instagram, look for the Moderninstabee2014 hashtag!  and check out the wonderful quilting work by Hive 1 – sewbeait, jessicaquilter, missplanner, pamsaylor53, sqragan, moogiequilter, cristycreates, crinklelove, justalittleoffquilter, lisaquiltslikeaboss, and the mind behind the hive brazenlisa (and me of course).

Here are my February blocks for sewbeait:

 

 

 

 

 

 

And then we moved on to March for jessicaquilter.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And I also had to create labels to provide to everyone based on the awesome label that was created (I couldn’t get the little camera to digitize, but the bee is too cute).

Having a fun 2014!