Sunday, July 18, 2010 at 6:27PM Just like potato chips, except my hands don't get greasy
It's hotter than blazes out there, so I've spent my entire weekend on the couch watching movies and working on a new quilt.
I'm pretty much addicted. Just one more hexagon! Just one! And then two hours later I'm still sewing.
I thought long and hard before jumping on the hexagon bandwagon, and I'm so glad I finally went for it. I'm using all solids, mostly leftovers from other projects, and I fully expect this to take me years to finish. I'm doing the tradtional Grandma's Flowers design (the picture above is one flower). All of the centers of the flowers will be Kona Cotton Papaya; the outsides will be all over the colorwheel.
I've never done much handsewing, and I'm surprised at how much I like it. I especially like the part where I get to take out my basting stitches and remove the little paper pieces from each hexagon. I'm using one strand of embroidery floss for the basting, and then coordinating sewing thread for seaming everything together. When seaming two different colors together, I go for the darker of the two.
I'm hoping to share my progress with you as I go, but trust me, there won't be leaps and bounds any time soon.
They don't exactly cover a lot of territory. But it's the process, right?
Reader Comments (5)
You go, girl! Love it! Missed you at the last meeting. Us hexies shared our progress. Much excitement!
You know, I'm really trying to convince myself that I don't want to do hand quilting. You're not helping. :) Silliness aside, I loved the colors you chose for your last quilt so I can't wait to see what you'll do with this one!
Yesterday, I slept under a quilt like this one at Dads. And I was thinking about how it would like to make one like it. You'll need to show me how.
Ooh, I can't wait to see what it looks like when it's done!
I'm part of the hex-along at KCMQG, and am also loving it! My question, though, is about your progress meters on the right side of your blog - where/how did you get them? I've seen these on a couple other blogs and I'd like one for my blog. Will you make it to the August meeting?