Friday 19 September 2014

Hex-a-Mini

Oh the sure fire satisfaction of small projects. All the joy for a fraction of the work. I finished the little mini this morning.


It measures up at 20.5"x18.5". It was made by delving into my stash for fussy cuts and and low volume. I use my long ignored Go! Baby to cut the hexie and triangular shapes. It was super easy to piece as long as I paid attention to layout. Not a 'Y' seam was encountered.


It was pieced using my go to Aurifil dove grey. And quilted with my favourite thread again. A small stipple in yellow on the white borders, and a smaller stipple in white on the low volume fabrics. I deliberately did not quilt on the featured fabrics to let them pop out of the design more.


I made a narrow binding, cutting my strips at 2" instead of 2.5". And I backed it with some of the number fabric leftover from a previous project. Since the medium and navy blues didn't feature in the inner design I brought those colours out in the narrow sashing and the binding.


A gratuitous final photo because I can. Making this mini jump started my mojo. I love my hand piecing epp projects but I really, really needed to sit at the machine and produce something, a little instant gratification if you will. This fulfilled that requirement.

Now, I have a weekend of painting ahead of me. Keeping in mind that I have never painted a room in my life, and the girls intend helping me, let's just hope I come out of this unscathed. Years of renting and constant moving prevented any previous desire for decorating, and when I was single I thought it was just a job you paid someone else to do.

After all that, I have a load of bee stuff to get out of the way. Now that I remember how to use my machine again.

Susan

30 comments:

  1. it's really lovely, I do love that binding print.

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  2. That's beautiful. Good luck with the painting. It's definitely a job I'd prefer someone else to do!

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  3. I love it!!! I also love painting (or I used to, I can't manage it any more) and particularly liked cutting in. My best tip is to have a 'bugger it cloth' (official term) so you can quickly wipe away any accidental splotches on the ceiling, woodwork, etc. A damp scrap of Warm and Natural makes an excellent bugger it cloth!

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  4. Now that I could easily fit into my suitcase and have to the airport before you notice it's gone. Super :)

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  5. Such a stunning mini! Perfect in every way.

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  6. What a great result and all to get your mojo back ;-) ! I love painting, just be prepared for lots of spills...(I can be rather clumsy, so I know what can happen)

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  7. If you're my IG swap partner you can just make me a twin of this yeah? ;)

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  8. Okay I just wrote a comment and it hasn't published!! Why? Perhaps if I write something obscene, it will publish! Gahhhhh!

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  9. So it publishes a stupid comment but not the real one - thanks Blogger! So anyways, I was saying that I loved painting blah blah and your mini is very cute and sure to be loved blah blah x

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  10. really lovely, want a lesson in how you pieced it in person later ;-)

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  11. Oh it's gorgeous Susan. And I'm sure you'll have a fabulous time painting and be relatively unscathed apart from paint in the hair (and if you manage to avoid this please can you tell me how!)

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  12. It's adorable!! My machine has not seen much action lately either. Have fun painting!

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  13. A fabulous finish Susan. Its so pretty!

    Good luck with the painting- thats one of the reasons I got married- so I never had to paint again....

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  14. LOVE this cute mini S! And the navy binding is inspired! Beautiful! jxo

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  15. Love this and the blue border is perfect. good luck with the painting!

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  16. Love this so much. The colours are just lovely and I always appreciate a bit of fussy cutting. It really is true how much satisfaction you can get from a smaller project, just the feeling of finishing something is wonderful.x

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  17. Hi Susan! This is adorable Mini! Just love the Fabrics and hexies! Good Luck with painting! x Teje

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  18. Loving all the colours in this and the fragmented, and of course the fussy cutting is fab!

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  19. So pretty. I love your fussy cut stars against the low volume.

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  20. This is so cute. The fussy cutting is amazing. Any tips?

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  21. Absolutely adorable. You rock fussy cutting and hexies, Susan. :o)

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  22. Gorgeous mini, love the fussy cutting.

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