The Bee in my Bonnet Row Along...Quilt Label and a Bee in my Bonnet Bumble Bee Tutorial!!!...

I'll bet you thought you were finished making blocks for the 

Bee in my Bonnet Row Along

didn't you?

Well...guess what???

It's not summer yet and you have a little more time to finish your quilt!

You really didn't think that I would 

let you get away without a label for your quilt did you?

Of course not:)

I just had to designed another block

to finish it off perfectly!!!

A bee in my bonnet bumble bee of course...

so that you can remember me 

and our fun time rowing along together:)

Lets get started!

Get your bee cut!!!

Start by sewing the stripes together to form the body.

***NOTE the yellow stripe is at top and the gray at the bottom:)

Press towards the gray.

Lay a square on one side of the body segment at the bottom.

Stitch from corner to corner to form an Easy Corner Triangle.

Trim and press towards the triangle.

Repeat for the other side...

Yes...your seams will overlap.

You will be forming a stinger:)

Now sew ECT to the bottom sides of the wings.

Trim and press towards the triangles.

See the cute little stinger?

ow:)

Now sew the rectangles to the bottom of the wings.

Press towards the rectangles.

Then sew the wings to the side of the body like this.

Press towards the wings.

You will be sewing 2 large easy corner triangles across each upper corner.

Use squares...

 and because they are larger than the Angler 2 lines...

lightly mark a stitching line from corner to corner with a mechanical pencil.

It will only take a second...

Don't guess because they are large squares and will

 easily become distorted if you don't mark them.

Trim and press towards the triangles.

Now let's move onto the head.

Sew ECT onto each side like this.

Trim and press.

Then sew the remaining rectangles to the top and then the sides.

Press towards each rectangle.

Finish up by sewing the head section to the body...

 then the remaining background strips to the sides and then the top.

If you want...

you can draw some antennae 

(on paper first)

 and then trace them onto 

the top of the bee head for embroidery. 

You can do the same with the words that you want on your quilt label.

You can see through your background fabric to trace the words 

by using a light box or taping them to a window on a sunny day:)

Now choose 4 colorful prints that you have used in your rows and cut them to border the block.

Press all seams towards the print strips.

Your label is almost complete and ready to be stitched onto your backing.

YaY!!!

I'll show you how to finish it up

in the backing tutorial

 later this week.

I will be using this green daisy print for my backing.

In my last post I showed you my outer border fabric....

the medium green gingham by Riley Blake.

I will be using the aqua daisy print for the inner stop border.

I will also be using my

 white background fabric for all of the borders.

We will talk about the binding later:)

Today kicks off a week long celebration of

  finishing up the quilt...

ending with a 

fun giveaway announcement on Friday!

(so be sure to leave me some bloggy love)

Have a quilty kind of day my friends...

xx

Lori