Hi and welcome 😊 The last week has been busy so there's not much progress on my projects. We're expecting slightly cooler weather that I hope to enjoy.
Summer Hexie Sew Along
I finally decided on the fabric for my hexie wreath and made four hexie flowers to see how they look. Week one of the sew along is to make two groups of three flowers, while week two is making one group of four flowers (which I guess I made) and then one double flower.
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| Four hexie flowers |
At the back of the photo below you can see the four main fabric that I'll be using for the wreath. Most of the scraps in front will be used for the centre of the hexie flowers, or possibly the middle ring of the double hexie flowers. This should give me enough fabric to experiment with.
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| Fabric pull for the hexies |
The sew along suggests using 1" hexies but since my Scrappy Hexie Blanket is made with ¾" hexies, I've decided to use these for the sew along. This way if I make flowers that don't really go with the rest, I can just add them to the blanket.
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| with Mad About Patchwork |
FMQ More Rooves
I finished FMQ the rooves of the evening houses and started on the first of the regular houses. A few people commented on how well I had FMQ the roof last week. The stars must have been aligned or it was beginner's luck because the other houses haven't been as good 😕It's all good because eventually I'll be washing the quilt and it'll all look great!
You can see in the next two photos that the top row of the shingles stick out a bit - that's because they bunched up a bit. That's why I'm hoping that washing the quilt will help.
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| FMA clamshells for a shingles look |
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| Quilting the roof with slightly larger clamshells |
On the other hand, I learned from my experience and stitched the horizontal lines in before FMQ the clamshells. It really helped.
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| FMQ the roof clamshells after quilting horizontal lines to follow |
Blue Jays Appliqué
I went shopping with my DIL for some fun fabric for her Blue Jays appliqué. I'll be washing the fabric and making it this weekend. Here's the mock up and the new fabric.
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| Blue Jays mock up |
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| New fun fabric |
What I learned
- Choosing fabric for the hexie wreath was difficult because I had 4 fabrics that are from the same line but also have the same values. In my scrap box, I found enough coordinating fabric that are darker or just different.
- I'm not sure how they will work together but worse case scenario they'll be integrated into the scrappy blanket 😁
- As I mentioned earlier the two evening houses on which I FMQ the rooves ended up with some bunching in the top clamshell row. I solved that the next time by stitching horizontal lines before stitching the clamshells.
- Once the quilt is washed, I don't think that the bunching will show much.
- I didn't get much FMQ done this week so I'll have to push myself to keep going. I find that the heat and humidity just zap the energy out of me, even if I don't go outside.
- My son and DIL are going to a Blue Jays game in Toronto around the 25th, so I hope to have the t-shirt done in time. That would be cool.
Related links
- This and that and I Quilted This!, July 09, 2026
- Mad About Patchwork
Linking parties
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I Quilted This!
Welcome to the I Quilted This! linking party that celebrates quilting on a domestic machine or custom quilting on a long-arm. Feel free to link up and share any recent project, even if you're not quilting it!
Here are the posts that included FMQ, ruler work and walking foot quilting last week. Thanks for linking up 😊 and consider grabbing the button.
Kat from Scrapbox Quilts quilted a lovely baby quilt using a petal template. It looks wonderful! It'll be donated to The Hope Centre.
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| Kat quilted this donated baby quilt top |
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| Kat used a template to quilt these flower petals on the baby quilt |
Gail of Quilting Gail posted about the prompt "binding beauty". You can read her post about the various types of binding she uses. Here's one of her quilts with a flange binding.
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| Gail's quilt with a flange binding |
It's now your turn 😍
When you mentioned blue jays, first thought entered my mind was baseball. Love your pretty hexies. I started a gorgeous hexies quilt in 30's repros years ago, then my hands started cramping and I set it on the shelf.
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