Going to join the hexie craze

No pictures yet, but I have my Fiskars hexie punch for making templates, and am hunting for scraps of fabric.  I'm not very good at hand sewing, but the 2 I've done for practice are not tedious so I believe I will do all right.  Seems like a better use of time when sitting down watching TV than browsing my iPad (which I currently do!).

What I'm working on now

I really have been busy, just no posts!  Am quilting the QOV mystery quilt

 

pinning and getting 2 quilts ready for donation

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and canning pears!

 

Suffragette border on, ready to quilt

 After trying different colors and color combinations, I elected to just go with one purple border.  This is such an odd quilt, going for a simple border seemed best.  I wish it were a little longer,and that I'd made it 6x8!  One thing I learned from this sampler quilt along besides the wonderful history lessons, was that for sampler quilts fewer different fabrics is better.  I'll try and remember that on the next sampler!

hard to get a good picture....

Sunday

I finished this top last night, so the lighting isn't very good.  Not sure what to do about border(s).  Pepper is taking care of my HST box - see how cozy it is?  also she was hiding from all the noise of the party last night (when I took the picture)!

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up to date on the Nabby's Dowry squares....

 

Heather's 15th birthday party - family and friends

Home made pizza by chef Tom!

Saturday

Here is the latest square in the Nabby's Dowry series, the last block we make 4 of them (I've only made one), 2nd row far right..

Also putting together the squares in the Suffragette quiltalong, still a few more rows to go.  And a border!

Suffragette quiltalong - putting together the squares

After putting sashing on one side of all the squares, I started then to sew it to the opposite side.  Then I thought, wait a minute, I don't need to do that!  So rip those out, and now although I wasn't going to put cornerstones, I guess I have to since I have so many of the 8.5" strips already cut!  But it turns out that's a good thing since my sashing is so light, and it needs medium to medium-dark cornerstones I think.  I am going through all my scraps from making this quilt which I saved in one bag - thank goodness.  I will have to cut just a few pieces of fabric to have enough 2.5" squares.  Funny how things work out!  Of course I could say I planned it this way all along... this is how it is looking without the sashing/cornerstone strips.  Not sure about borders but will figure that out as I go.  Since purple is my favorite color, and this quilt is for ME, it likely will be a purplish border. 

These are laid out in the order in which I made them, 1 through 49, so I could see if my color selection and sewing improved any from start to finish.  But some I like more than others so I will rearrange a few and put the favorites in the middle, like my sunbonnet girl, the parasol, coffee cup, Kansas sunflower, heroine's crown.  This has been fun!