Quilting & Learning - What a Combo!: #100hexies100days2019

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Wednesday, October 16, 2019

More hexie play

Can you believe that October is half done? The leaves here are really starting to change and the weather is turning cold and wet. I may have to put my sandals away soon 😞

More of 100 hexies in 100 days (#100hexies100days2019)

The official party was over last week, but I finally finished putting my hexies together and posted my last few weeks on Instagram. Better late than never!

As always, it was a lot of fun. I got side-tracked a lot, but then that's pretty much my normal state of being. My last hexie post went up to week 6. So here is the rest of the lovely hexies. You will find the links to my previous posts in Related links below.

Week 7 - Japanese

Week 7 - my Japanese fabrics

Week 8 - Sewer's Choice
Looking through my scraps, I found a bunch of fabric with polka dots and circles. I love the way that the centre circle looks like alien eyes peering out!

Week 8 - Sewer's Choice - polka dots and circles!

Week 9 - I Spy

There was a lot of fun fabrics here: a bench, a cactus, a cyclist and sailboat to a rabbit and a rain cloud.

I spy some outside fun

I spy a turtle on a rock!

Week 10 - Berry Cute

I knew that Week 10 would be problematic because I have very few berry fabrics. I was happy to see someone post some holly and berries - at least I had some of those. The others are cherries and an orange tree.

Very Berry fabric (with bugs!)

Week 10 - some berries and fruits

Week 11 - Sewing Notions
I took the pictures of the Week 9 to 11 hexies at my brother's cottage. It was so much fun running around with my hexies! I even met his neighbour whose chicken the sign is about!

Chicken crossing sign

Sewing notions on a log

Week 12 - Vintage
One picture of some vintage flower fabric!

Week 12 - Funky vintage flowers

Week 13 - Creatures
By now my holiday was over and back to work I went. At least I had some fun with the photo shoot in my cube!

Week 13 - Many fun creatures

Creatures among the polar bears

Funky art and cute creatures

Week 14 - Favourites
I decided that I needed some batiks in this mix since I love to work with them - they are so colourful!

Week 14 - some of my favourite fabrics - Batiks!

Batiks posing in front of my
mother's old sewing machine

Week 15 - Playful
I found some lovely, playful fabric for this last week. Of course, they deserved a playful photo shoot!

Week 15 - lots of playful fabrics 😊

Can we get more playful?

My mother's snowman

What I learned

Participating in this event is always a lot of fun, but it does require work, especially to keep up.
As always, the photo shoots are a huge part of the fun.
It's weird how some days I want nothing to do with computers and Instagram - that's why I'm often late in posting.
I love seeing other participants' hexies. It's always so creative.
I'm looking forward to another fun year in 2020. Thanks Sew Foxy Mama (@sewfoxymama)!

Wednesday, August 28, 2019

Hexies on Free Motion Mavericks

Welcome to Free Motion Mavericks (Week 244)

Enjoying some relaxing time outside

I'm on a resting holiday. That means sleeping a lot (up to 12 hours a day!), reading, quilting, and a little bit of gardening and blogging. So far I've managed to keep it relatively quiet except for my felting miss-adventure (see Related posts below).

I'm working on piecing one UFO and I did finish my Kingfisher Stitch-Along quilt top. I'll write a post before the end of the week since that was my July and August OMG.

Since I haven't done any free motion quilted (FMQ) this week, here are some great hexies that I'm working on for the #100hexies100days2019 on Instagram, hosted by Sew Foxy Mama (@sewfoxymama).

Here are weeks 4 to 6. We are now on Week 9 and I just have to post them - almost caught up!

Week 4: Starts with B
I had a lot of fun taking pictures of these hexies at work. Even my co-workers got in on the fun!

B is for Bench

B is for Bescherelle
(from my high school days!)

B is for Ball (my colleague's)

B is for books
(thank goodness not mine!)

B is for a very proud Beaver

B is for Binder and Box

B is for BAHHHHH
(That's an old postcard from the Twist Fibre Festival)

Week 5: Rainbow

A rainbow on the Gauguin Portraits exhibition
catalogue since my daughter and I spent so
much time there for her school class.

A rainbow in front of our
paint pouring masterpieces

Week 6: Adventure

What does adventure mean? For me it's road trips,
trying new quilting techniques or enjoying a great book

Adventure among the flowers

The golf hexie is for my husband :-)

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Hexie Extravaganza

It's that time of the year again!

One hundred hexies for 100 days! (#100hexies100days2019)

Week 1 is about me

This year, Sew Foxy Mama (@sewfoxymama) started the fun one month earlier. I'm glad since this is the perfect summer project - low key and with hexies 😊

Week One: Me

7 hexies about me

M. French Roast coffee bean that keeps me going in the morning
paw prints for those I love
colourful and pretty flowers
a cacti for the desert that I am drawn to
fabric from my first home-made curtains - very colourful
colourful modern fabric for the modern art that I'm starting to appreciate!

Close-up of some of my favourite things

Chevy - a paw print owner I love

Week Two: Summerlicious

Summer fun, at least when the heat is reasonable! 😊

Close-up of my summer fun hexies

Part of the fun is the photo shoots. It's great to go out and take pictures of hexies and it's a lot of fun seeing everyone's photos!

Summer hexies lost in the foliage :-)

This is my favourite photo of my beloved "Let's hibernate" cup, which is what I would and sometimes do in the cold, cold winter. I just wish that I also had an "estivation" cup - for burrowing away to hide from the summer heat!

I wish I had a "Let's estivate!" cup

Week Three: Teeny Tiny Things

Teeny and tiny are relative terms - when an image on fabric fits onto a 1" hexie - it's teeny!

It was relatively cool today so it was a great time for a photo shoot in a nearby park.