Look what I got!

I finally got around to taking pictures of the blocks I received in the two quilt block swaps I participated in the last couple months.

3x6 Paper Pieced Hive

Nubee April Bee

It's so much fun getting blocks in the mail. Like a little mini Christmas.

Nubee April 2012 Hive 8 Blocks

Well, I decided to go with the first block I made using the half-square triangles.
Seems like I've been doing those for quite a while now.

With this particular design I have two print fabrics with one solid color and I found that if I pressed half of the seams towards the print fabric and the other half towards the solid color I could arrange them so that the points lined up perfectly.

I ended up making a total of 5 and am glad I decided to go with the more difficult block. 

Nothing like a learning experience. 

Another Quilting Bee

Since I finished up all my blocks for the 3x6 Quilt Bee I decided to join another one.
The NuBees quilt bee. I'm having a bit of an issue coming up with a block.
This one isn't a paper piecing one, so I can make whatever I like as long as  I follow the color scheme of each hive member.

The first block I made was this one:

Which is made with half square triangles. Love the design, execution, not so much. The points are horrible. 

Since this bee only runs for a month instead of 2 1/2 like the first bee I decided to make a simpler design in order to be able to complete it in time. So I came up with this: 

 Too busy. Not quite right.  So here's attempt #3:

Better than #2, but according to my husband not as cool as the design of #1.
So I think I'll try to make block #1 again. If it works out better the second time around it'll be my final choice and if not we've got block #3 to fall back on.