I think this is the direction I will be going...

The full quilt can be seen here.
I liked this quilt the second I saw it! It is what I had in mind when I joined the Spiderweb Bee.
I have to get to some quilt/fabric shops and take a look at some browns. Hopefully I will see one that jumps out at me.
I like the yellow golden tones with the blacks. I especially like how the red pops here and there.

Anna's Blocks completed

January's blocks are completed! I really enjoyed putting these together. I haven't completely decided on my own blocks....I have the month of March. In these you may be able to notice that I alternated red and green on the wedges. Anna asked that we not sew our blocks together so I would imagine these wedges will me mixed amongst the other 11 quilter's blocks.

My photos are dark. I took them outside after these shots to see if I could get a little better photo. Can you see how these wedges alternate the red and the green?

Outside shots...

my first block...
my second block.

I thought I could add a row each month to this coin quilt I started last year.
The bottom row is made using leftover scraps from the spiderweb blocks above.

I am challenging myself to use up all the scraps in a few of my ongoing scrap quilts. This one is a coin quilt that was popular on Flickr this past year.






Thanks Anna for letting us keep the leftovers from this project.

Tomorrow is the Martin Luther King Jr holiday so there is no postal service. I will do my best to get your blocks in the mail on Tuesday. I still have to pull the foundation paper off the back but that is the easy part.

I had a dream last night...

...that my Spiderweb block had all kinds of little narrow strings in them. Like a real spider web.

Even thinner than in this photo!

I woke up thinking .... what if .... these strings were in black....or very deep browns....and some very deep greys...earth tones!

I have been thinking about it all day.

January blocks for Anna

Here is the fabric Anna sent for her blocks.




This week I started the wedges for the Spiderweb Bee blocks for Anna.
The first fabric I found myself reaching for is the star fabric to the left.







Anna chose this fabric because it is from a current project she had just worked on.












A few of the blocks that are already posted in the group already have the Charlie Brown fabric in them.
I have currently been working on a Christmas Star quilt. Anna said in her note that came with the fabric that she did not want any of her scraps back.
I immediately added the green metallic tree fabric to my stars! It is so perfect!!!







Anna wants us to put our own fabrics in the blocks so she has a real scrappy feel to her quilt.


Here is the first completed wedge from a couple days ago. There are twelve of us in the Bee and each of us have picked a month. My month is March. By that time I hope I will have a better grasp of the whole project. I was nervous. I read and reread the tutorials. Anna sent the center fabric so there is consistency throughout the whole quilt.

This is just a rough shot as I go through the audition phase of pulling some of my fabric scraps that I think coordinate and tell a story. Above I have a red piece of music fabric from my nieces Red/Black musical quilt. Just below it is a swatch of cat fabric from a quilt I made for my best friend's (My older son's Godmother) daughter. I collected cat fabrics for about 3 years to go into a star quilt for Alicia. I gave the completed top to her for her graduation present from high school.












On one wedge I am putting both of these tree fabrics. The one to the left came from Anna and the one to the right I had in my stash.

Here are two more pieces of fabric with trees on them. They are both from Christmas fabrics.



Anna also said that she likes green!

Here is a better shot of the musical fabric and the cat fabric.

***It shouldn't take much longer for me to finish these blocks.


One of the nice things about Anna's blocks is she wanted them scrappy. I ***love*** scrappy quilts. The more fabrics the better. I have also noticed that I like a darker string to go around the outside of the WEB which is the 1st pieces that get sewn on next to the backing fabric you see in the center here. I have also been thinking that I may want a lot of stripe fabric. See the little snowman above. I was able to move the strip so that little guy sat more in the center. In this project it is not fussy cutting but fussy laying of the strip.
I have really enjoyed the start of this project.

Vintage Spider Quilt

This piece is the size of the back of a rocking chair. I don't know if it was bigger at one time. I just love it!

I joined in the Spider quilt Bee mainly because I am so awestruck by my aunt's vintage rocking chair cushion that her mother made.

This vintage piece is very different from the ones that I see on Flickr.

I apologize that these photos are blurry but they are the only ones I have at this time.

I really like how the red pops in this section.

One of the best parts of this quilt is the dark thread hand quilting and how it shows on both sides of the quilt.