Hexie Land

Despite my (best-laid) plan to only work on hexies on the week-ends, and devote most of my quilting time to DD's quilt blocks, I've been so seduced by the hexagons that that's about all I've accomplished lately... hexies and a bit of knitting.

If you want to see my hexie progress, check it out here.

I did want to show you the wonderful little prize I received from Quilting Ranny - it came almost two weeks ago and I'm just now getting around to sharing. Thanks, Jean. The soap smells so divine! (I'm using the little zip-lock it came in to store my freezer-paper hexagon templates. They smell wonderful now, too!)

Beautiful Christmas ribbon and heavenly peach-scented soap.

The blocks for DD's quilt are all machine-pieced, while the hexagons are all hand-stitched. I'm enjoying the option of switching from one skill-set to the other.

Happy stitches to everyone! And have a delightful weekend.

Two Projects and Pot-holders

(All the dates on the pics are wrong - I keep forgetting to Fix It on my camera!)

Not too long ago I nearly burned myself using one of my old shabby patchwork potholders. I decided it was time to make some new ones. What a re-learning curve that was! After several false starts, ripping of stitches, etc., I think I finally got my pot-holder mojo going again. And... you know how one thing leads to another...

Old and Shabby!

New!

Several years ago DD let me know that she really would like to have a quilt made by me...that notion has been quietly simmering on a back burner for a long time. But, when I got out all my fabric stash (nearly all of it is scrappy - and there's not all that much of it), I remembered DD's quilt request. So I decided it's probably now or never. I selected "Goose in the Pond" for the pattern - using green scraps for the half-square triangle "Geese" and non-green scraps for the pond ripples. These are fairly large blocks - finishing at about 15" square. I plan to set them with 3" muslin strips with little mini 9-patch blocks at the corners. So far I have 10 blocks done. I'm thinking about a "flying geese" border, but that's still a long time off. I'm using scraps as much as possible for this quilt - I have lots of lavenders, pinks, purples, blues but not very much in the warm color palette. I bought a couple of fat quarters to help things along. Here's a yellow...

The "Par-Tay" block!

Getting back into piecing/patch-work/quilting-in-general led me to search for quilting and crafting blogs, and because of that I found The Great Hexagon Quilt - Along Too, and I just couldn't help myself - I asked to join-in the fun. (Thanks again, Robyn for letting me in!) I had never done hexies (as they're called) before and had always really liked them, so I joined up and am now addicted. I'm also using scraps for this project.

More hexies soon (I hope).