About half an hour ago I got a little time to poke around in my fabric stash. I was in mind to do a bit of a rainbow with yesterdays idea. I've not done much in the way of rainbows in my quilting career. Then I changed my mind. Here is the current way my brain is thinking.
The idea is make it look a bit like a sunrise/sunset. The vivid colours of the sun, then the almost colourless sky beyond melding into darker and darker blues on the opposite horizon. I may add a touch of violet here and there, not that I actually think I have any violet in my stash. Hmmm, may need to rethink that thought.
Another project looms as my mother accepted a commission on my behalf. For placemats. She even helpfully provided me with a mesh template of the shape her friend would like them for her round dining table.
Mum told her friend this wouldn't be a problem and I would love to make them. Seriously?! Thanks, Mum! My brain has stalled on this one but I am thinking machine appliqué may be the way to work round all those lovely curvy corners. The binding should be fun.
And in the evenings I continue to sew bits of hexie quilt together. I hugely underestimated how long it would take to join up the larger bits. I did pull papers to make it easier to do though. There were a few, but no I did not count them.
What is scaring me is how many more hexies I will need to get it to the shape I desire. Why aren't there any elves in real life like the shoemaker had in the fairy tale I used to read as a child? I need hexie elves!
Susan
Haha hexie elves! Wouldn't that be nice? I'm glad no one has volunteered my to sew anything for a friend thus far... Good luck with that interesting shape!!
ReplyDeleteTotally loving the idea of the sunset! Think that will be wonderful! Can't wait to see how it all goes together. My purple part of my stash is woefully low too!
ReplyDeleteSounds to mel like someone is taking on too much. You need to enjoy what you are doing without the pressure. After all you are doing this for fun, not a job (or am I wrong there?)
ReplyDeleteHi Susan! Your hexie Project look so beautiful and I think you are already 'on the winner's side' as we say. I just started basting hexies ...
ReplyDeleteYour NEW Project is most exciting and the Fabrics beautiful.
x Teje
I love the sound of the sunrise/sunset colour scheme - hope you can get started on it soon! Good luck with the place mats and all that bias binding you'll need to make! If you send me some hexy templates and fabric I'll tack them for you...
ReplyDeleteYep love the sunset idea...very creative. If you’re going to use all those fabrics in that very complicated diagram I take my hat off to you...
ReplyDeleteAt this point I’d probably stop talking to my Mum...the binding was my first thought when I saw the template.....Im just watching and almost had an anxiety attack about it.
Laughing at the idea of hexie elves...I wish quilting elves existed occasionally....
Oh isn't it wonderful when our mothers volunteer us. Such a handy shape to make too, the sort of thing you knock up all the time really. Let me guess, she wants brown or olive green or something, right?
ReplyDeleteYour hexies are looking great and I love the sunset idea!
ReplyDeleteYou're not really planning on binding the placemats are you? Couldn't you make them like a cushion, turn them and topstitch and call it a clean modern look?
Radiating colour sounds fab, i'm sure you'll make it look stunning! Don't get burnout :o)
ReplyDeleteCant you rope in the kids?
ReplyDeleteSurely thats what they are for??
Sunset idea is great and I love the blues you've pulled. Good luck with those placemats! what size are your hexies?
ReplyDeleteI need a legion of housekeeping elves!! QAYG would be lovely with that shape of placemat! jxo
ReplyDeleteI need a legion of housekeeping elves!! QAYG would be lovely with that shape of placemat! jxo
ReplyDeleteBusy, busy! Gotta love your mum's faith and pride in your abilities, even if it has landed you with binding challenges!
ReplyDeleteWell, I love the fabrics you have chosen for the crazy project. I think that you could say no to placemats or at least reshape them so that they have straight edges and corners. And good luck with the hexies.
ReplyDeleteThanks Mum!
ReplyDeleteThat is a lot of hexie papers.
ReplyDeleteOh, your naughty mum! Bad, bad mummy! Lol!
ReplyDeleteI love the colours you pulled, I'm all about the turquoise and orange combo right now.
ReplyDeleteLove your fabric pull - such a fab design!
ReplyDeleteWhat Fiona said DON'T BIND them bag them instead and topstitch - life is too short!
ReplyDeleteSounds like Helen aka Archie is your hexy fairy!
Hexie elves! What a great idea... And Placemat elves, and quilting elves would come in handy too. Oh and while we're at it, maybe a Grocery shopping & Cooking elf or two too please! ;-)
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Do you want to cheat? letting the elves do the work and be the hero that it is done? You can do it so keep hexing ....
ReplyDeleteI love the idea of a Hexie Elf! Your Sunrise idea is going to be amazing, but it looks so complicated - good luck x
ReplyDeleteYour hexies will happen, you'll be fine I have faith in you :) I love the colour pull, much better than a rainbow.
ReplyDeleteWish my 'appointment' had only taken ten minutes! I must have more skin to check than you! Everyone needs some magic elves, don't they!?
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to see your piece that beast. I love the fabrics you've selected - its going to be beautiful
ReplyDeleteMoms. Why is it they volunteer us for stuff like that? That's going to be an interesting adventure.
Hexie elves would be great, especially if they could double as housework elves too.
ReplyDeleteLove the colors you've pulled for your sunrise/sunset project. I think it will be stunning when it's done! I would welcome hexie elves into my home - as long as they know how to cook!
ReplyDeletelip shaped placemats? Interesting! Do some QAYG and then cut them out afterwards. Bit of bias tape and you're done!
ReplyDeleteI would probably not do a binding, rather the pillowcase method of stitch and flip. Although with bias binding it may not be too terrible.
ReplyDeleteThat plan and fabrics are looking to be just beautiful.
You need minions!
ReplyDeleteDon't feel so bad about the placemats, my husband just volunteered me to rebind his friend's rug!
ReplyDeleteSounds like you have a lot on your plate at the moment!
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