Judy at Patchwork Times is hosting a Monochromatic Challenge in 2011, and the colour for January is yellow.
I love yellow. It represents sunshine and warm smiles and happiness to me, so I was very excited about having a really good reason to make an all-yellow quilt! When I got my yellow fabrics out, I knew right away that it had to be a Bargello quilt and that my special “Bee” fabric wanted to be included.
I didn’t have enough diversity in values to make the traditional gradient-colour bargello pattern, and I wanted my bees to look like they were flying around in a flower garden, so I used different prints for my stair-steps — polka dots, swirly patterns, florals — and the bees go up and down and all around.
I have just got to the point where I am arranging my strips to create the design.
Here’s a better look at those bees. 🙂
I was hoping to finish it by the end of the month (today!), but it’s still got a long way to go. That’s OK, though — I am having lots of fun with this pattern!
Happy Quilting!
Very pretty!
Love the happy bees! I did not have enough yellow fabric to participate in the challenge. Not even a small quilt. So I sat this one out. But, I think about this time of the year, yellow would sure brighten up our lives. Good job!
Very nice Dianne! I enjoy yellows too, but don’t have many in quilting fabrics. Your bees are terrific!
Pretty! I have a twisted bargello book on my stand that look through, but that’s as far as I have gotten. I love the bees fabric
Very nice, love the bee fabric.
Very fun quilt!
Very nice! I love the bees. I think I will try the challenge next month. Looks like everyone has had so much fun!
This is so cute and it looks like honey. The bee fabric is very sweet. Looks great!
Too sweet. I love the little bee fabric in there. It adds such a nice dimension.
The bees are *darling*!! Very cute! 🙂
Love the way you combined your strips. I agree. Looks rather like a honeycomb, or a field of yellow flowers! I can’t wait to see how it looks when finished!
I love it! The bees are cute!
The bees are perfect! Don’t you wish it was warm summer weather, sitting in a lawn chair listening to the bees fly from flower to flower…..aaahh.
How lovely – I’m doing a new york beauty quilt in yellows and greys and the first block I did had bees swirling around!! maybe we should swap yellows!!