Bee Eater Birds

This week I needed badly to get something accomplished.  It is the middle of July and not one thing completed until now.  I decided to set to work on my Quilt Art Design Blocks for this month and started out with the bee eater birds that Janeen van Niekerk created for this month in the Garden BOM she is hosting this year. Actually she created two for this month.  The second is a bunch of tulips that I look forward to getting done soon I hope.  I colored out a sketch of how I want the tulips to look and am excited to see them come to life soon.

This block I worked on about an hour each day plus another hour or more to put all the pieces together.  It took me a good hour the first day just to pick out colors.

As of this morning, all 24 sections looked like this below picture

 

 

Scattered they don't resemble the end product at all, but it allows me to right off the bat see that the brassiere fabric is much to attention drawing.  I really like it when the scrappy low volume background doesn't shout quite so loudly --- look at me.  So I spent a little time replacing it.

 

Oops... still hadn't replaced it in this photo but I will...I promise...it has to go.  Rearranged it looks much better and is starting to look better all ready.

 

Before I even start piecing all the sections I write on each piece what color goes where, but obviously messed up with this one...yikes.

LOVE the completed block!!!  Thank you so much Janeen for another fantastic block pattern.

Keep Stichin'