Don’t hate me for saying this, but, after being in a few quilting bees, I’ve got to say, I wonder if the month of sending fabric isn’t the least exciting.
I mean, the payoff is huge, eventually. But at the beginning, there’s a LOT of mail to send, which can be a drag, and then there’s no fun fabric surprise that arrives and just waits to be turned into an awesome block or two for your fellow bee-ers. (That almost looks like “beers.”)
Thankfully, I’m at the point in the Rockin’ Bobbin bee where I can, if nothing else, obsessively monitor flickr to see if anyone made me a block today. And my concept – each participant makes a pair of blocks, one of which has a strong border – has me thinking a lot about a look I really like.
I don’t know how to describe it, exactly, but it involves sashing/a border that’s really part of the block. This side-by-side comparison of blocks made (for me!) by megan.mary will hopefully illustrate my point:
See? Blocks like the 12″ chevron will be alternated with blocks like the one on the right – an 8″ block with a 2″ border added to make it the same size as the block on the left.
Does this type of sashing/bordering have a name? I’d hate to have to call it “sordering”….