Quilting Accomplishments...

MeLissa gave up on the E-V-I-L Triangles for a while...at least until she receives further instruction in her quilting class. As you can see from the pictures attached, she successfully completed not one, but two blocks. She effectively doubled, in one day, the number of blocks she's completed. Sewing machines are gifts from heaven above. Perhaps, they will even be effective tools in defeating triangles (or not...only time will tell).

The two blocks you see are called the "honey bee" which is, currently, unfinished. Sooner or later, it should have some wings appliqued on, but since that hasn't been covered yet, MeLissa wasn't responsible for that part of the block. MeLissa isn't sure whether she really wants to mess with such a cute block anyhow! The center of the block is a nine patch in mini form. It showcases the various birds found in the lovely Christmas material MeLissa chose. The "white" provide ambiance with their romantic trees and snow drifts...

The "honey bee" was the second block MeLissa completed. The first was a basic nine patch. Unlike her first two nine patches which each took several hours to sew, this nine patch took all of about 10 minutes! Putting up the sewing machine was definitely a good post-Christmas activity!

Instead of making a basic checkerboard design, MeLissa decided to get crazy and created this design with a diagonal row of Christmas trees highlighted by more of the snowy background fabric and two fun Christmas plaid pieces. She's really happy with how this turned out!