Week 11 of My Hexie Fever

I think I've figured out what I want to do with the small batik diamonds....

(graph paper is cool!)

I think black rather than white....

And after arranging, rearranging, changing, and thinking, I've pretty much decided that this is what I'm going to do with the scrappy flowers (but what color for the single hexagon setting? Gray, maybe?)

29 single flowers finished

     (and 22 waiting)

44 double flowers finished

     (and 9 waiting)

1 triple flower finished

11 bulls-eye diamonds finished

26 small batik diamonds finished

     (and 35 waiting)

74 5-inch novelty hexies finished

2276 hexies made so far (up 122 from last week)

               and

2701 edges sewn (up 241 from last week)

GRAND TOTAL (4977) up 363 all together from last week!

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March of the Hexagons - Week 10

Sunday, May 10th marks the end of my tenth week working diligently - and almost crazily - on hexagons!

I don't like the way these look like this.  

I've done some drawing and brainstorming.  I think I'm going to use some sort of black around them to make it look more stained-glassy.

I love the way these look.

15 single flowers finished
44 double flowers finished
1 triple flowers finished
11 bulls-eye diamonds finished
12 small diamonds finished
74 5-inch novelty hexies finished

2154 hexies made so far (up 296 from last week)
and
2460 edges sewn (up 108 from last week)
    grand total (4614) up 408 all together from last week

Ninth Week of Hexie Happiness!

May 3, 2015 (forgot to post on the correct date, too busy sewing)
          Another week  of checking out people's blogs and quilts and tips about Grandmother's Flower Gardens, Lucy Boston, and hexagons in general.  Lots and lots more pinterest findings that contain so many cool ideas.  Starting two more quilts (or perhaps wall hangings?) without finishing my first (which is probably about 3/5 done.  And loving every minute of it!

New Project #1

Single Flowers - hopefully, pretty bright

7 finished so far

New Project #3

Small Diamond Batiks

6 finished so far

12 single flowers finished

43 double flowers finished

1 triple flowers finished

11 bulls-eye diamonds finished

6 small diamonds finished

74 5-inch novelty hexies finished

1858 hexies made so far!!  (up 322 from last week)

and

2352 edges sewn together (up 195 from last week)

   grand total up 517 since this time last week

YEE HA!

Hex-Crazy for 8 Weeks Now!

The quilt's getting bigger, and now I'm coming up with more and more ideas.  Whoa - why can't I do one at a time?  Never been that way!  And on I sew.....

What would I do without the back of my couch as a huge, giant pincushion?  SO handy!

So far:
5 single flowers
43 double flowers
1 triple flower
12 bulls-eye diamonds

1536 hexies made (up 106 from last week)
2167 edges sewn  (up 202 from last week)

Yup, my fingertips are a mess.

Grandmother's Flower Garden - Week 7 Update

Three weeks since my last posting....including 10 days vacation on the east coast.  I took my hexies with me, but since I can only sew them together with my glasses off, this eliminated some of my quality work time.  I can baste them with my glasses on, so I got to do quite a few of them.  A lot of whip stitching happened on the plane - and because the quarters in the economy seats are so confined, I stabbed myself in the cheek!  Here's what I have completed so far:

I also started a pillow for Ella.  I've got the flower done, still have to turn it into a pillow.  That added another 37 hexies to baste and sew together...

I spread out on Laura's kitchen table (it was so wonderful to be there...)

The count, at the end of 7 weeks:

Completed flowers:  38

Completed kits (flowers ready to be sewn together): 12

Diamonds completed: 10

B/W Edge Rows of 10 completed:  2

Hexies for other projects: 40

Hexies waiting: 343

Total hexies:  1442

Total single edges sewn:  1965

Grandmother's Flower Garden - Week 4 Update

I can't wait to get home each evening to work on this!  My design wall (on the living room wall, so lovely!) has been a blast to use, so that I can pin up each flower or diamond as I complete them.  One finger and one thumb are seriously pricked, and I love it!

The count, at the end of four weeks:

Completed flowers:   29
Completed kits (flowers ready to be sewn together):  16
Diamonds completed:  5
Hexies waiting   267

Total hexies:  1167
Total single-edges sewn:  1256

Beginning a Grandmother's Flower Garden - EPP English Paper Pieced - Hexie - Quilt

(Now that's a mouthful!)

For the last three weeks I've been frantically basting 2 1/2 inch pieces of fabric to 1-inch cardstock hexagons that I've punch out using a Fiskar's punch.

I decided to use the collection of black & white fat quarters that I've been amassing for the last few years. As of last weekend I'd created over 600 individual hexagons and whip stitched 20 different 19-piece flowers together.  I decided to make the inside block of each a really bright center, with the first round being black on white and the second round being white-on-black.

I'm addicted.  Can't get enough.  I love hand sewing!

....and I'm using the back of my couch as a pincushion and pinning-board .... it works perfectly!