Stash Bee: October Queen Bee Hive #4

Hi! I’m Christy and I am Queen Bee of Hive #4 for October!

I am happily married to a cowboy, we have three wild boys (only one left at home, he is 15). We received our first grandbaby daughter in February of 2012!

The hardest Quilting thing I have ever done? I’m not going to lie. . . . it has been this swap! Every month, I just couldn’t get it right the first time! Sometimes it took 3 and 4 tries! I started with a new sewing machine and the needle moves to different positions. (I used to line my fabric up on my old presser foot). I could not get that ¼” seam allowance to save my life! I kept second guessing myself, changed this, changed that until this past August I happened to find a clear presser foot at Wal-Mart with a tiny black line that was ¼” mark. (Why couldn’t I have found this sooner?) It was the answer to my dreams at $7.98. Would I do it again? You bet I would!! I worked with colors and blocks that I never would have chosen!

My favorite dessert food is brownies! I ate a cheesecake brownie thing once at a hotel restaurant that was delicious and have never been able to duplicate it.

The last time I laughed really hard was a couple of years ago when I was buzzing my youngest son’s hair. I had the ear guard on and was almost done and seen a stray hair in the back, forgetting that I had the ear guard on and took a big hunk out of the back of his hair. The moment it happened, he knew what I did, and went running to the bathroom. I found it funny because he has chosen to have a mow hawk, shave his head, and turn his hair green before, but he was crying in the bathroom because we had to go shorter than he wanted. Well when I was sweeping the hair up and throwing it away, I said “we could make a hair piece with this.” But I was laughing so hard and couldn’t get the words “hair piece” out for laughing, and he thought I said he had herpes and was in the bathroom bawling more loudly than before screaming “I do not have herpes!” So, then I was really laughing!

We have a small horse farm and I give beginner riding lessons. My husband is retired. I am the head cook and housekeeper. We have 4 ducks (my mother’s day present this year ) 8 horses 8 chickens, a blue healer named Kit and a dachshund named Macy.

I learned to hand sew from my grandmother. I remember making a blue satin purse by hand. I later bought my sisters first sewing machine from her and tried to teach myself to sew. I remember crying a lot because it just wasn’t working until I started reading the instruction manual! Then it started happening, until I tried to read a pattern. Then I stopped trying to make clothes and started to make quilt blocks!! Road block =Quilt block!

I am a very traditional person, therefore I only hand quilt my quilts.

My life Philosophy: Strong people do not put others down, they lift them up!

Now, on to my block!

I would like this 12 1/2” pinwheel/Star block! I am in love with it! I would like you to use soft pinks, soft browns and Kona bone please. The center pinwheel block I would like to be soft pink and Kona bone. The outer star area I would like to be soft browns and cream!

UPDATE: any cream color that you have in your stash is fine! It does not have to be Kona bone, or Kona anything!

First you need to cut 8-3 ½” x 3 1/2” Kona bone squares for the outside solid blocks.

Next You will cut 2- 5 1/2” x 5 ½” of soft pink squares.

Then cut 4- 5 1/2” x 5 ½” squares of soft brown.

Finally cut 6- 5 ½” x 5 ½” squares of Kona bone.

Now, lay your 5 ½” soft brown squares and your 5 ½” soft pink squares on top of a 5 ½” Kona bone square. Sew all the way around these two blocks like so.