I can't believe it - I totally forgot that I had a post and a link up due today. I did vaguely think about it this week and then my sleep deprived brain skipped right over it. Such is life these days! 😊
Hexies galore
In my last hexie related post in February (link below), I mentioned that I wanted to make large hexie flowers around the borders of my mass of hexies. Since then, I've added a couple of them. These help me define the borders so that I can keep adding smaller hexie flowers and other shapes within the body of the quilt. To give you come perspective, it could now be a small lap quilt or a large baby quilt. I think that I would like it to be a large lap quilt, but that could change 😊
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| My hexie quilt so far |
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| I love these wonderful soft colours |
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| I really needed more purple! |
I've been participating in the #100hexies100days2021 which is organised by @sewfoxymama. She's done an amazing job getting weekly themes and prizes. Thanks!!! Here are this year's themes.
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| Our themes this year |
Theme 1 - Sewer's Choice
In the last couple of years on this challenge, I've seen a few hand-embroidered hexies. I really wanted to do that too! I used slightly bigger hexies that I will incorporate in my Traveller's blanket. All of these are on my hand-dyed or painted fabrics.
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| Larger embroidered hexies for my Traveller's Blanket |
Theme 2 - Treasures
Since I work for Parks Canada, I thought that I would highlight our national treasures - National Historic Sites, National Parks and Marine Conservation Areas. I included the stars because we have a couple of night sky preserves where there is minimal light pollution. The card is one I purchased years ago in Banff, Alberta. It's photographed by Ursula A Krol.
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| Parks Canada's National Treasures |
Theme 3 - Rainbow
One rainbow coloured hexie in the middle is surrounded by colours of the rainbow.
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| Samandra and rainbow hexies |
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| Chevy is perhaps not as impressed as she could be! |
Theme 4 - Party
Reasons to get together and party! The tulips represent the May long weekend and the Ottawa Tulip Festival.
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| Many of these symbolize events worthy of a party! |
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| Flowers are required at a hexie party! |
Theme 5 - Happiness
Happiness is a pet's love - this one is for Chevy!
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| Hexies with doggy fabrics! |
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| For Chevy who brings lots of happiness to our lives! |
Theme 6 - Berry Cute
I don't really have many berry fabrics but with a little imagination, some of these fabrics represent berries. Of course the sun is in the centre since you don't get berries without it!
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| Berry extravaganza! |
Theme 7 - Black & White
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Black and white on a
black and white background |
Theme 8 - I Spy
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| Lots of fun things for I Spy |
Theme 9 - Big and Small
After looking at my fabrics, I settled on big and small stripes. Both the fish and the frog in the fabric are stripped. My kitchen was a good source of stripped items for the background.
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| Big & Small stripes |
Theme 10 - Hearts
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Heart fabric hexies surrounded
by a FMQ heart shaped feather |
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| Lots of fun hearts 💖 |
Theme 11 - FairyTale
I don't have much fairytale fabric - so there was a lot of trying to make links to the theme. I broadened the theme to include myths and folklore. See if you can figure out what the fabrics represent! For the chicken, imagine that it's laying a pink diamond egg! 😊 Even Chevy participated by letting me use her gingerbread man as a prop!
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The gingerbread man with other
Fairytale or myth related hexies |
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| Disney - a large influence on modern fairytales |
What I learned
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| Kimono Silk Thread |
I wish I had some Shrek fabric for the fairytale theme! I don't have a lot of novelty fabrics but it is possible to make them work with some imagination.
- The image here is of my white Kimono Silk Thread which I use exclusively for stitching hexies together....it's almost empty!!!
- I realised that I haven't posted an update on my Traveller's Blanket in ages. It may be slow going but I do work on it occasionally. It's now on my list of things to post about.
- I was going to say that I need more sleep to stay organised but since I've never been really organised in my life....it may go beyond sleep 😄
- I have taken out my son's quilt and the fabric to make the borders. We figured out roughly how large it will be. Now I need to actually do it! Reality check - there are three weekends left before the end of May!
- Update! I had a
little huge scare on Friday. My post was deemed to have nefarious coding and disappeared without explanation or trace....and my blog was tagged as dangerous!!! After trying a few things and running a scan of my computer, I just left it in disgust. On Saturday I received an email from Blogger to say that it had removed my post because of the coding... and then later in the day, I got another email saying that upon review, it had been deemed to be ok and replaced. After a while to cool down, I went into blogger and had to republish the post...everything was ok...phew. I realise that Blogger has to be careful but until I heard from Blogger, I was wondering if my blog had been highjacked or something - I didn't know if I could ever post again....and that made me very sad. I have spent too many years working hard at this to abandon it. Anyway, all is well and I'm so glad that my post and blog is no longer deemed a threat! (Huge sigh of relief!!!)
Related links
Linking parties
I'll be linking this post up to many linking parties. If you have the time, check them out and their participants!
Midweek Makers,
Put Your Foot Down,
Needle & Thread Thursday,
Can I Get A Whoop Whoop?,
Off The Wall Friday,
Finished or Not Finished Friday,
Slow Sunday Stitching,
Oh Scrap!,
Patchwork & Quilts,
Peacock Party,
15 Minutes to Stitch 2021,
Free Motion Mavericks
Welcome to week 331 of Free Motion Mavericks. Thanks to everyone who linked up last time. I hope you had a chance to see them all! I did, however want to highlight Denise's Patchwork Flowers quilt. I just loved those yummy colours - what a feast for the eyes. If you didn't visit,
it's never too late.
Now it's your turn!
