I'm still here

I am sorry I haven't been posting/checking in, but I have been diligently plugging away at making hexies. I am ready to start working on flowers again. I love how hexies are so flexible, a little here, a little there, it is all good.

Plugging along

I am still here... just plugging along. I average about 3 hexagons a day, which is not much, but it is something. I want to make it through my stack of precut fabrics before I start sewing flowers together again. Getting close!

81 flowers done!

I missed last weeks check in, but I am still here! I now have 81 flowers done and it feels really good to lay them out and play around a little bit.

300+ hexagons

My weekly success was working my way through all those papers I cut, and basted 300+ hexagons (thank goodness for the new season of Orange is the New Black!*). I also made quite the dent in my precut fabric, which is good, because I was starting to get tired of looking at it. That actually might become my biggest challenge - to not get tired of working on the same shape all the time. I might start another quilt just to give myself some variety. Is that cheating?

*I totally binge watched the entire season. I am also watching Restoration Home (a BBC show I can only find on youtube) and am enjoying it immensely.

Plugging along

Time for my check in! I managed to sew 8 more flowers this week, for a total of 52. I keep looking at completed (or in progress) quilt tops on flickr and I am itching to start putting the flowers together. I know that I need to wait until my flowers are done though, since my design idea is very "go-with-the-flow" and if I start sewing flowers together now, the quilt won't be balanced.  I am going to start sounding like Dori from Finding Nemo soon... "Just keep sewing, just keep sewing".

My hexagon color choices were starting to run low, and making the flowers wasn't actually freeing up enough hexagon papers for me to really get a stash of hexagons going again. Last night I cut a little over 300 papers, so I am ready to go again. 

I used whatever 12x12 card stock I had on hand, so these papers are colorful ones. :)

What a nice weekend

It was such a lovely weekend. For once, no one had an activity they needed to be at - I even spent an entire day in my pajama's! Heaven! I spent most of the weekend in a rocking chair on my porch working on sewing flowers. I didn't keep track of my numbers, but here are a few pictures of the progress.

Thea wanted to pose with the flowers. I have more somewhere, but the little miss in the picture likes to steal them (her current favorite activity is to use the flowers as her "recipes" when she cooks at her play kitchen).

Closer view

And making headway on the fabric in my travel bag. 

Speaking of travel bags. When I started thinking about hexagons, I read everything I could find on the internet (including this entire blog - everyone here is such an inspiration!) and I especially loved looking at everyone's hexie kits. If you have a hexagon kit, would you be willing to share? 

Just a little progress

Last week I was chained to my sewing machine making tutus for my daughter's dance recital. Now that it is done and over (phew!), I can focus on other projects, like my hexies.

It was so nice to sit on the couch, watch Call the Midwife, and do some handwork. I made just a little progress, with 36 more hexagons done, but it is something!

One little stack...

Phew!

Susan was so great to let me jump back in after I have slacked in the posting department. Thank you!

My hexagons fell to the wayside for other projects, I ran out of papers and just didn't get around to making more. If you have ever read the book, "If You Give A Mouse A Cookie", the series of events needed to make more papers seemed to follow the same story line. Only with less cookies.

So, finally, I put other projects aside to get more papers made. I use my Silhouette Cameo to cut the papers. I love this machine!

It is a little difficult to see, but here is a close up of the card stock after it has been cut...

Peeling the hexagons off the cutting mat...

A stack ready to go...

And just in time for my busy weekend shuttling kids around to their various activities, my hexagon-to-go bag is ready!

Hello!

Thank you for letting me join this fantastic group! I had been toying around with the idea of starting a hexagon quilt and in the process, I found this blog. I read it from start to finish, and after that I was hooked. I had been bit by the hexie bug and I needed to make one!

I dove in on the day I started to have timeable contractions for my fourth baby. I wanted something to do with my hands that would keep my mind calm. Bonus, it gave me something to do at the hospital while we waited to go home.

3 months later and I have just under 900 hexagons completed. I have several flowers done as well. I love handwork, so it is perfect for me to do while the baby is nursing, while traveling, and while I am waiting at my older kids activities.

I am not really following a pattern. I am mostly using my scraps up, plus I put out a call on facebook to my friends, looking for their scraps. Recently we went to visit my family out of state and my Grandma gave me full access to her fabric stash! I am thinking I want to be at about 3,000 hexagons to make a good size snuggle quilt (I am doing 1" hexagons). I know that "Snuggle" is not a size, but in our house, all quilts are for snuggling, and when you are a family of 6, you need ample blanket to go around. :)

My older girls like to play with the hexagons like they are puzzles or create flowers for me to sew together. One day, when this quilt is done, there will be a lot of memories tied into it.

My girls, Ella and Thea playing with the hexagons

Ana, 3 months old, and 3 months of hexagons (881)

Playing around with arrangement. I am pretty sure I am going to stick to a rainbow wash like this. It just makes me happy, and that is what counts, right?

Thanks again!