{"id":3359,"date":"2012-03-07T14:45:46","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T12:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/?p=3359"},"modified":"2012-03-07T14:45:46","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T12:45:46","slug":"stitchteasers-and-the-wonky-star-blocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/?p=3359","title":{"rendered":"Stitchteasers and the wonky star blocks"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I mentioned a couple of days ago that I’d like to introduce you to my fellow stitchteasers. You may have encountered some of them before – I feel like I’m in quite hallowed company!!<\/p>\n

So….may I proudly present….<\/p>\n

The Queen Bee…Di from Random Thoughts Do or Di<\/a>\u00a0– this is all Di’s idea and she’s the one who put the motley crew together and keeps us in order. She’s a Californian girl with 4 (very handsome) sons and a husband called Mr Romance. She also gets to have what we call summer in the middle of winter and she’s a super-prolific quilter. Her days definitely have more hours than mine do!<\/p>\n

Susan from Canadian Abroad <\/a>– Susan lives in the UK with her family and is another high achiever! She’s an accomplished quilter and takes parts in lots of bees and swaps – so she’ll be one of the ones who knows what she’s doing (unlike me!)<\/p>\n

Hadley from Flying Blind on a Rocket Cycle<\/a> – there has to be a story behind that blog name doesn’t there! Hadley certainly gets the award for the most original blog name. She \u00a0makes some fabbo quilts too!<\/p>\n

Annabella from Life’s Rich Pattern<\/a> – I’ve known Annabella for a while and I hope before long to go and stay in her little hotel in the middle of Marrakech in Morocco. Annabella is a great photographer in addition to being a creative quilter and her little boy Zaki is utterly adorable.<\/p>\n

Dianne from Quiltova<\/a> – Dianne is another ex-pat Brit, like Annabella and I – and she lives in the Czech Republic. Now there’s someone with a language more difficult to master than Swiss-German!<\/p>\n

Danny from Mommy for Reals<\/a> – I don’t know too much about Danny, except that she’s young, wacky and has the most adorable baby daughter….it’s worth visiting her blog just to ooh and aaah over the baby photos!<\/p>\n

Katy at the Littlest Thistle Craft Shop<\/a> – Katy is Scottish and has set a really tough challenge for the bee for her quilt. We have to make strips to make up a town or village….seriously scary, but I think it will probably turn out to be really fun to do.<\/p>\n

At the moment we’re each working on a block or a strip for ‘our’ quilt. Once that’s done it will be sent off on its way and the others will add to it until the quilts are completed in a little over a year.<\/p>\n

I’ve asked for a quilt made of 9 blocks of wonky stars and as there are only 8 of us, I’ve made two of the blocks. I just finished them up this morning.<\/p>\n

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I LOVED making them, but have learned a few things about myself in the process. It was abundantly clear to me that I ‘m a bit of a control freak and I’m no good at just letting go and being freely creative. Hence my wonky stars are in nice set controlled grids and have matching points and I set pretty tight requirements for everybody else. Maybe I’m making it easier that way for everyone or maybe I’m stifling everyone’s creativity. We’ll see. I’m sure they’ll tell me!<\/p>\n

Over the next few months I’ll be showing you photos from time to time of what I’m making for everybody else – although the photos will be pretty limited as the finished quilts are supposed to be a surprise for the originators – so you’ll probably only get a sneaky peep once in a while!<\/p>\n

That’s all for today….time to get back to work!<\/p>\n

Helen<\/p>\n

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