Come Together quilt

There's a quilting book I have which I just love, it's called "Modern Bee, 13 quilts to make with friends, by Lindsey Conner.

This block is called "Come Together", and I chose it for my Bees Knees, a quilting bee.

 I was making the quilt for my son in law, and needed something on the masculine side :)

I bought some beautiful Kona teal, Kona Snow White, and used some  Denyse Schmidt fat quarters that I had in my stash.  

The black print corners are Cotton and Steel.

I cut the fabric and made kits for each of my bee friends.

The blocks matched up perfectly, and I began machine quilting!

I quilted crosshatch squares, about an inch and a half apart.

I took a class on Craftsy, by Jacquie Gehring.

She told us to put painter's tape on the sandwiched quilt, to guide our first machine quilting line, from corner to corner.  

After that, I used the guide on my walking foot to follow.

Yay, I successfully quilted the whole thing!

It was a windy day when I photographed my quilt.

I backed the quilt with orange, it's my son in law's favorite color.

I really wanted to keep the quilt for myself, lol!

There are little paw prints in the shape of circles on the orange fabric.

My son in law has 5 dogs, so I thought it was perfect!

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Stacked Windmills quilt

I joined the virtual, or online Modern Bee quilting bee in 2014.  There were 12 of us in Hive 11, and we could choose whichever quilt we wanted to make, out of 13 quilts in the Modern Bee book by Lindsay Conner.

I chose the Stacked Windmills block.

I asked my hive members to choose pink for the center block, then yellow and gray for the rest of the blocks, and I wanted a text fabric for the background.  I think they turned out so cute, each one is so unique :)

The blocks are sewn with just 5" squares.

Now it's time to see the sashing, I chose a charcoal solid.

Yay, it's finished! Now I need to prepare the purple free spirit fabric I purchased for the back and machine quilt it. I took a Jackie Gehring class on Craftsy about machine quilting and want to use the skills I learned, on this quilt :)