Piece Bee With You for Jane (October)

Ok, so I'm sticking my hands up in the air for all kinds of things lately!  Maybe some of you are familiar with the Ringo Pie Quilt Bee as a lot of its members are quite popular bloggers.  We've seen some amazing things from them over the past year so a group of us wannabees (haha) decided to form another group along the same lines called Piece Bee With You.  The idea is that every month one member chooses a theme and we (there are 12 members) all try to use our stashes (hopefully modern fabrics) to come up with a pieced block in said theme.  This month Jane asked for dresses, but then elaborated the idea with examples of these blocks here.

Now, the idea of me joining a Bee that required drawing is quite laughable as I could be one of the world's worst drawers (even more laughable that I intend to be a long arm quilter!!).  My son regularly asks me to draw for him a picture of a tractor and only his sweet little self could see the form a tractor in my drawings.  So, I can tell you, that in producing a pieced block for the first time that I am quite proud of my efforts.  My husband may have made a comment or two about this poor girl looking like a nun, but I am going to ignore that.  I pushed the boundaries of size and made this the largest size that she wanted which is 10" X 10".  I am not quite proficient enough to go smaller.  Drafting was interesting, I ran into some hiccups, but I got my end result and that is all that matters.  I did happen to let my boys play in the sewing room while I was working on this (I normally wait until nap time).  I was just too excited about making this that I wanted a result right away.  Today's job, clean the mess in the sewing room that they made while I was sewing.... haha.