The Honey Pot Bee – Saturate Me

My soul is evaporating won’t you saturate me won’t you saturate me
Rain down on me with life
My soul is evaporating won’t you saturate me won’t you saturate me
Storm over me bring the tide

What do I even say about this finished quilt top that I’ve been working on for over eighteen months? Gurl. The gig is up, get out from under my sewing machine. I hate you and I love you at the god-damned same time. Yes, yes, and yes some mother-fucking more. Whew! Jesus, Mary, and the mighty fine Joseph. I just had to get that out, ya know? I don’t really hate this quilt top, I’m just emotionally drained by it. Time to send it to the long-armer so we can take a little break from each other.

Making each of these individual blocks in 2017 was really the best part. The queen bees brought the good stuff, and I just came along for the Vegas-style buffet. When I started, I knew my colour story was going to be all about saturated colours. Hence the title, Saturate Me. I made it a mission to use fabrics from my stash that I’d yet to cut into and combine those with bits from my scrap bin. I put in place a few parameters: no solid black, white or grey fabrics, pump up the pattern, and more is more! I definitely wanted this quilt to be about discovery. It may blind you with its effervescence, but as you look deeper you’ll find lots of surprises.

There are a few places in this quilt that I get really excited about. I love transitioning blocks with well-chosen fabrics, instead of harsh starts and stops. These triangle-in-square units provided just the way to create the perfect blend. I make mine using Bloc_Loc templates, and I couldn’t ask for my points to be perkier!

I’m also digging these tiny (1″ x 2″ finished) flying geese that transition two blocks together. Aren’t custom-made flying geese the absolute best? Because all of the blocks in this quilt bee are of various sizes, there was some hair-pulling, nail-biting, martini-drinking, colour-contemplating, octave-raising, glass-shattering, frustration-dancing, sideways-glancing, partial-seaming, just-do-it-already-type-of-sewing that went down. Thank Lourdes for my design wall, as it helped me get a general feel for where I wanted things to be. Otherwise, it was just sew it together and see what happens!

Surprisingly–seriously, shocked the hell out of me–my quilt top came out of all that squared up. Don’t ask me how it happened, I’ll just say thank you and put it in the bank. Now, I do need to say, there are a few quilt blocks in my top that were not part of the original programming. But my quilt, my rules, my yellow polka dot bikini. However, you might might see them coming up as stars of their own projects soon enough! For a full review of The Honey Pot Bee posts and links to tutorials:

The Honey Pot Bee Posts & Tutorials

Thank you to all the monthly queens, sponsors, and participants. I’ll hit up another post once this diva is quilted, bound and gifted with a pair of sunglasses!