EPP or English Paper Piecing Fun

100 hexies 100 days 2018
The 100 hexies in 100 days event on Instagram (#100hexies100days2018) was such fun that I found myself wondering what to do after it was all over!

For those of you who don't follow Instagram, here are my last few weeks of posts.

Week 12 - Something Sweet
I don't have tons of novelty fabric and by week 12, I had used most of them. That means that I had to get innovative. I went for the colour of chocolate with the props to go with the hexies. It was the brown fabric with caramel coloured dots that gave me the idea for this. Doesn't it look good enough to eat?

Purdy's single origin chocolate is not so sweet but awesome :-)

The chocolate and hexies are on one of my mother's first quilted placemat.

There's nothing quite like chocolate!

Week 13 - Halloween
Again I didn't really have Halloween fabric, so pumpkins and fall colours are featured this week. Patches comes out every fall. He's one of the first foundation paper pieced project I ever made, and certainly the largest to date.

Black and orange hexies keep Patches company

Week 14 - You're a Gem
I have been collecting Alison Glass' fabrics for a little while. If these are not gem-like, I don't know what is!

Amazing Alison Glass fabrics

I used my rock and petrified wood collection to show off the gem hexies. I love rocks. I don't know much about them and I certainly don't know their names, but I'm a Northern Ontario mining town girl and it's in my blood.

All kinds of rocks and some petrified wood to go with the hexies

 Some day these fabrics (and a few others) are going to make an amazing quilt!

Even the background looks like sand!

So Far...

This is the result of my 100 hexies in 100 days event. There are probably a few more, but not many. I'm going to keep making them, but definitely at a slower pace.

Putting them all together...so far

What next?

It's probably a good thing that the 100 hexies in 100 days event is over since I still have lots of work to do on the Kingfisher Stitch-Along. It's officially over but there are still some great finished quilts being posted on Instagram (see the link in Related links below).

More batik hexies, pinned and ready to be stitched

This weekend I'm getting ready to go away to Italy to pick up my daughter. I'm meeting her in Venice and then we are spending a few days in Florence. I've decided to pack these up with some cut fabric to make more hexies. I don't sew on the plane since there just isn't enough room but I'm sure that I'll have some quiet time to stitch a little during the trip.

One Monthly Goal (OMG) for December

I called it November Madness and that's exactly what it was. I'm going to keep Charlotte's t-shirt/dress quilt as my OMG for December since I got lots done in November, but not my OMG. I did work on it, but there is still a lot of free motion quilting left to be done. At this point I have to consult my FMQ journal to see what FMQ designs to use on the borders.

One t-shirt and border done - many more borders to go!

What I learned

• Starting the month with a post that includes Madness in it's title was probably asking for trouble! It was a mad but productive month. 😊
• I had a blast playing with hexies every week. Sometimes it was a bit of a pain, but mostly I loved it. I'm happy to say that my posts were a bit late only a couple of times.
• It may take a long time to get a lap quilt out of my small hexies, but there's no hurry. It's very much a WIP (work in progress)!
• I'm looking forward to getting back to my larger 1" hexies from the Kingfisher Stitch Along. I even bought a few batiks since I last worked on these, so I'll be cutting these up today to bring with me.
• I knew that trying to get Charlotte's quilt done by the end of November was being very ambitious but that's ok. I did work on it a little and will keep at it when I get back.

Related links

• 100 hexies in 100 days event on Instagram
• 100 hexies in 100 days related posts
• Weeks 9 to 11: October updates, October 22, 2018
• Weeks 5 to 8: September endings, September 30, 2018
• Weeks 1 to 3: 100 days of fun with hexies, August 22, 2018
• Purdy's Chocolates
• Patches, the Pumpkin Patch Protector, October 28, 2013 and Welcoming Fall, October 24, 2016
• Alison Glass Fabrics
• Kingfisher Stitch-Along on Instagram
• November Madness, November 4, 2018

I will be hosting Throwback Thursday this week for Sandra of mmm! Quilts, so please come and post something so that Sandra keeps working with me 😊

Linking parties
I'll be linking this post to the December OMG goal setting link-up as well as many others. Let's see what's happening! Free Motion Mavericks, Finished or Not Friday, Friday Foto Fun, Can I Get A Whoop Whoop?, Slow Sunday Stitching, Oh Scrap!, Monday Making, Main Crush Monday, Design Wall Monday, Moving It Forward, What I Made Monday, Linky Tuesday, To-Do Tuesday,