Wednesday 29 January 2014

Still Stitching

Each and every evening I add to my hexie quilt, whether cutting and basting, or stitching them together. And it is growing much faster than I ever thought it would.


As you can see, it is like a picture puzzle with the pieces fitting together. Since I rarely, if ever, plan my quilts ahead of the game they grow in their own weird and wonderful ways. I am done with the blue hexies on this quilt now, and just need to keep adding LV ones until I have it square(ish). I have a feeling I haven't yet cut enough LV after all, but that's okay as I still have lots of fabric left.

Meanwhile, the backing fabric has arrived for the HST quilt, and I went and picked up some wadding today. I may be gone a while because (for me) basting this quilt is going to be one hell of a job. I bought more pins today too, just to make sure I had enough.

Susan

24 comments:

  1. i'm impressed with your growing hexies! i have a hexie UFO that i seem to work with every 6 months or so and then put back down. and it's only a mini.

    ugh i hate basting. gotta be my least favorite part of quilting. good luck!

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  2. What a fabulous range of LV fabrics, looks great.

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  3. Gorgeous! And if you want some other LV fabrics you might not have in your stash give me a shout and i can cut some pieces and send them over for you. x

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  4. Love it so much... I am going to return on my EPP on February, hopefully!

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  5. These are looking brilliant! What a lot of hard work! Jxo

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  6. You're making wonderful progress! How are your fingers holding up?

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  7. Love this LV quilt with the contrast bubbles! You put in the graft and you reap the reward! Beautiful work x

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  8. I love both quilts, the hexies are growing really fast. I hope the basting is not too horrible, I think I put in far less pins than most as it takes me about an hour to baste a quilt that size.

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  9. You are an EPP goddess for sure! Beautiful! Just wondering if you hand cut the hexagon shapes out of fabric by hand or do you have a shape cutting tool? I get why the hand sewing of EPP is enjoyable, by my goodness...cutting all those little hexies out first! Yikes!

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  10. Love the hexies! Can't wait to see them finished. Don't envy you the quilt basting though.

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  11. like the LV hexies -- My last EPP project was where I ran away from all the stress of my Mom's last year -- so glad I had it!

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  12. Fabulous! It's going to be a quilt to be proud of at Quilt and Stitch Village :)

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  13. It's looking truly marvellous! Good luck with the layering and pinning!

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  14. Oh you and I are SO alike! My quilts often involve little (rather no planning) and just magically appear...although I think you have more patience than me doing all those hexies! As for pinning and basting, w.o.r.s.t. part of the whole process if you ask me. Have fun doing it!

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  15. Pin basting - yuk!!!!
    Hexies look fab though xxx

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  16. Love how this is growing! I'm still going backwards *sigh*

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  17. You are the queen of the EPP!

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  18. You can never have too many pins! I wish you the best of luck getting that sucka to stick down and play nice!

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  19. Looking good! BTW thanks for the email...I will respond in kind when I get more than 2 minutes at the computer :o)

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  20. How big is the HST quilt? It sounds like a monster project...

    Love those gorgeous little hexies. Im seriously impressed by how quickly you are making those.

    You might be interested in the project Im currently working on - sometimes I think you and I are sisters .I'll send you a picture !

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  21. This is looking fabulous. You have real dedication to keep on sewing those hexies

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  22. Treeemendous progress! You can do it!

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  23. I'm so impressed with your progress on the hexies, you are going so fast. I might have said it already, but I love your choice of fabric.

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  24. What a pretty quilt this will be when finished. I must finish my hexes quilt too

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