Hexie Quilt Top

At long last, here it is.  Some quilt stats and fun facts:

Size:  82" x 72"

Started: 2011

Top Finished: 2013

Hexies:  3500 ish

(I did the math and came up 3487, my husband came up with 3500 so we must be in the ballpark!)

All hand made, including paper hexies and hand sewn. 

The name of each of my family members is in the quilt. 

The ultimate "I Spy" Quilt

Sewing in the final hexie, I'm looking pretty happy!


I had sewn that last piece in last Saturday, then discovered 9 more hexies needed on the border...  truly the never ending project!

PHEW!

Last Piece

A Quick Little Project

A fun little project for a friend's birthday...  gotta love the glitter on the fairy wings.

I have a finish on the Mollie Quilt to show you (I cannot find the pictures..eak), and the two more "diamond" border sections to finish on the Hexie Quilt. Yay!

Slacker

I've slacked on the blog posts this summer, but not on the quilting!  This Hexie Quilt was my obsession for most of the summer... the entire middle is finished and I'm working on the border with intent to finish in 2013.... that may be pushing it!

If you ever dare to try this, buy the pre-cut hexies and go big (mine are 1 3/8") at least for a starter project.  I have been cutting the hexies out of paper, pasting to fabric, cutting fabric, hand sewing hexies and then sewing them together.  A long and time consuming ventuture... although obviously I enjoy the hand piecing.  None the less, it takes f-o-r-e-v-e-r!!!!

The Peace Sign Quilt is done and I have a non-traditional baby quilt to share... we'll see what other projects are lying around my sewing room!

Hexie's

If you are a Hexie quilter, check out this new blog.  You might even recognize one of the featured quilts...  :) 

http://thehexieblog.blogspot.com/

Checking my List

Well, can't check off everything on the list from Friday, but finished a couple of them.

1. Finish last square for the Selvage Quilt - Log Cabin Style   

You'll have to take my word for it, I finished the last Log Cabin block for the Selvage quilt... no picture.

2. Binding for Dia de los Muertos

Binding in lovely sherbert color!

Sewn on, still need to hand sew.

3. A little Hexie Sewing

2 yellow hexies... done while the kids at basketball practice.

4. Quilting on my 1st Selvage Quilt, Yikes, it's almost done, just sitting there 1/2 quilted.

Nope, not done.

4. Looking for a new project, I have one circling around in my head

It''s swirling around, I pulled out the bacckgound and am thinking on it.

I also bought a new to me sewing machine at a garage sale, I'll take pictures of my new baby and show her off later in the week. 

Here's my sentiments this morning...

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Well.... I'm Back

Phew, one week on vacation and one week getting ready for vacation, all of the sudden gone for two weeks from the blogging world.  However, not gone from quilting as I took my Hexie project along for the ride.  I concentrated on white hexies, as I'm going to need A LOT of them...

And I sewed them into rows of 2 or 4 to add in around the diamonds.  I have 41 diamonds done now and am  s l o w l y  working on getting them sewn together.  I spread them out, upside down on my big dining room table in order to stitch together, they are kind of tough to manipulate.

Click here to see a previous posts of the Hexie's. 

Selvage Quilt

Here's a looksy at my design board; the selvage quilt, log cabin style is coming along and you can see the pattern now.  I went through all my white fabrics and cut all the selvages off, kind of funny,  Usually, I just cut them as I use fabrics.  This is going to be king sized, so 25-30 eighteen inch blocks. 

and here's the whole design board, something's gotta give soon!

There's a pile of selvages in the bottom left corner  :)

Click HERE to see Log Cabin Selvage Quilt finish!

Click HERE to see Kelly Girl Quilts most recent post!

Hexie Quilt

These little hexie's can be very vexing, I think I finally have a pattern and even started the outside border. 

I have thirty-ish diamonds completed or almost complete and figure 800 hexies for the diamonds and then add in the Black and White border, probably over 1000 thus far.  Sometimes I wonder what I have gotten myself into!

also this weekend, Stars and Moon Quilt completely quilted... now needs the border and I just need to put the border on the last quilt (of 5) that I'm finishing up for a friend... it will be nice to get that projected finished up.

To see Kelly Girl Quilts most current post click HERE!

Click HERE to see Hexie Page!

Brown? In a Kelly Girl Quilt?

Definitely yes!  As one who has shied away from that drab brown in the past, I was pleasantly surprised when I decided to use some brown stash fabric for my hexie quilt. 

Coincidentally, brown is my Mom's favorite color...

maybe she is on to something after all.  :)

I used many of the same fabrics for this diamond, just fussy cut the fabric so it shows some diversity. 

I am off to my daughter's first basketball game this evening.  It all goes by so quickly...

HEXIE'S

To see the most recent post on the Hexie Quilt, click here!


Here's an update on the last Hexie Update...  In the prior post, I decided to go with the diamond pattern, and now have pieced together a few of the diamonds.  I have 15 diamonds made... there are 25 Hexie's in each diamond... 15 x 25 plus white hexie's... it is beyond me!   Many more to come, these Hexie's are quite the project.

I added a purple diamond last evening.

Here's the back, a labor of love for sure.

Click HERE to see more Hexie Quilt Pics!

Click HERE to see most current Kelly Girl Quilts post!

Happy Thanksgiving!

I am off to shop and begin preparing the big feast for tommorrow.  We will have all of our children in the same house for the meal tomorrow for the first time in four years.  Our 19 year old arrived home from college last night, and the rest of our children are now local... at least for the time being.  My parents will be joining us for dinner as well, and we'll get to visit with my mother-in-law over the weekend.  So all in all a big family weekend, (no pun intended), just as Thanksgiving should be.  I'm sure to throw some sewing in there at some point.  Happy holidays.



October was a BUSY Month!

Welcome if you are visiting for the first time from Lily's Quilts and the Fresh Sewing Day and Small Blog Meet, a fun way to visit new blogs... here's a run down of my busy October.  First off, I worked on finishing my "They're All Dalmatians" cow quilt, a 72nd birthday present for my Mom!

 

Also worked on my FMQ with this old project.

Started a new project (or two) as usual!

and slowly working on a Hexie's.

And the biggest news of all, my Granddaughter Nadin arrived in the states from the Philippines on October 10th!

Welcome to 'Merica Nadin!

Here's the links to the other blogs in the big Link Up!

Phew, hope I copied and pasted all that correctly!

Have a great Sunday.

Hexie Quilt

To see the most recent post about the Hexie quilt, click here!

The Hexie Quilt, my take along project has also evolved... I began with the traditional Grandmother's Flower Garden type block, then thought about stars for awhile, and have finally settled on diamonds.

Grandmother's Flower Garden

Orange

Red

Pink

Bordered with White, it really makes them pop.

I have made 7... and I've promised myself I'm not going to figure out how many more are needed for quilt that will cover someone's lap. 

Cooling quickly here, down to 25 degrees tonight!

Good Saturday Morning!

I am off to a class about my new sewing machine after thinking I would just skip it... the thing is, unfortunately, patience is not one of my virtues and the thought of sitting in a class about my sewing machine sounds rather excrutiating to me.  However, I really do want to know how to maintain the darned thing, so I am reluctantly attending... two hours of time that could be used to stitch, dang it.   Anyway, here's a couple pictures of the take along/travel project.

About a 9" block



I am finding the paper piecing very relaxing.


I'm on the run!

Hope you are stitching away this fine fall morning.

A New/Old Project

I may be a wee bit obessessive...

I recently rediscoved this project while moving my sewing room.  Fun for a road trip and easy to take along.