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Hexi diamonds update!

I have all the half hexi diamonds completed! So excited that these are done! Now I can start the full diamonds, I only have 47 left to do! 🙂 Just spent a little bit of time looking on paperpieces.com and ordered some 1″ hexagons papers, 1″ diamonds and 1″ equilateral triangles. I figured if I was ordering I might as well get it all now. I figure I need the hexagons now and I just don’t feel like cutting those out anymore, I’ve done enough of that. Besides, I don’t have anymore of the paper I was using anyway.

Gotta run, I have a table runner to see if I can quilt before Alex gets up from his nap, then I can work on binding tonight during the Super Bowl!

Wiggly Whimsy Row 1

Well, I have the first row of the Wiggly Whimsy quilt completed, only took me a couple of hours to do. (Kept having to take care of other things or it wouldn’t have taken me so long!). It was so simple since everything was already cut out! I can’t wait to see the whole thing put together, I’m really liking the way the black makes all the colors pop, although I knew it would since I have other quilts I’m working with a black background! I don’t know if I’ll be able to wait until next month to work on the next row, we’ll see what happens since I have a bunch of other quilts I should be working on.

I’m continuing to work on hexagon diamonds and I’ve started hand quilting the next practice piece. I will be concentrating on hexagon diamonds though because I need that one finished before we go camping! I have a few others that I can work on at the machine while Alex is napping, in fact I’m going to see if I can put one of them together now, it’s been cut out for at least a month.

I did it!

After this month’s guild meeting I was talking with some women about projects. One mentioned hand quilting a quilt and I mentioned that I wanted to learn. She said she’d teach me! Sue came over this week and showed me what to do, and said it was the fastest she’s ever seen someone pick it up. I’ve now finished my first practice piece, I just need to fold over the edges and whip stitch it closed. I can see in some places where the stitches are quite uneven and large, but over I think it looks pretty good. Since it’s so small I don’t know what I’ll do with it, probably put it under a vase somewhere. I’ve already got the next practice piece in the hoop (although I need to buy one of my own!) and plan on starting it tonight. I want to get as much practice in before I start working on the hexagon quilt. I’m so excited that I’ve learned how to hand quilt, it’s something I’ve wanted to do for a long time.

I’m still working on hexagon diamonds, when my fingers hurt from quilting I switch to hexagons. I only have a handful of the half diamonds to finish and I can start working on the full diamonds again. If I have the hexagons for the half diamonds basted it only takes me about an hour to put them together. Takes a bit longer for the full diamond. Hope to be back soon with more pictures.

Hexagon Update

I’ve been hard at work on my hexagon diamonds quilt. I now have all the diamonds that are put together sewn into 1 piece. It is getting to the point where I have to stand on a chair and hold the camera over my head (almost!) to get a picture of the whole thing. I don’t know what I’ll do when it gets more rows added on! I’m busy working on all the half diamonds so they are ready when it’s time to add them in, and with making more black hexis. Won’t be able to add diamonds until there are black pathways. I’m hoping to have enough black made that as I put a diamond in I can add the black pathway as well. I’ve set myself a deadline of March 31st, don’t know if it will be ready for quilting by then or not. Right now this is the only project I am working on by hand. I hope to work on more machine work during the day when Alex is napping, the next one I hope to finish is the hubby’s ~~birthday~~ Christmas present. I’ll explain once I finish it!

We spend a lot of time sitting on the floor playing with Alex and I keep forgetting to get a pillow form when I’m at Joann’s, when they are on sale and I’m there I can’t remember what the size is I need, and when I’m at home and can get the size I never remember! A couple of years ago I used triangle scraps (I think I cut them with the Go Value Die) and made this pillow cover. Since I had pulled out a high loft batting for the ironing table and never used it and I know I probably won’t use it in a quilt since I don’t like mine that thick, I decided to fold it as needed and use that as my pillow form. It’s not perfect, but better than spending a ton of money on a pillow form! Alex loves to lay on it and watch tv, although we’ve decided to start limiting how much tv he gets to watch. He’s turning into a couch potato!

Design Wall Monday

I’ve been working hard on my hexi diamond quilt. Since I decided to use it in the RV I have a deadline – self-imposed since we don’t have a delivery date or a camping date! I have a few more diamonds completed, they just haven’t been added on yet because the colors are too similar to these and I want to spread them out. I’m hoping to get another row added on in the next week, I managed to get an entire diamond put together while at my MIL’s for dinner last night. Head over to PatchworkTimes to see other Design walls!

Hexagon Diamonds

I’ve mentioned a few days this week that I was going to concentrate on my hexi diamonds. I’ve decided that with some extra borders this quilt should be large enough to fit on the bed in our RV. So I have 6-8 weeks to get it done, because that’s when we get the RV! I already know that I will do simple quilting, a line through the center of each “row”, might not make sense now, but it will later! I started attaching the diamonds to each other last night, I think I’ll put them all together before I start working on making more diamonds. I have all the diamonds and half diamonds kitted up, can’t wait to see what some of them look like finished! Today is HeLP for Hexie-aholics day over at sarah did it!, go take a look at what everyone is posting!

I’m back!

I know, I’ve been gone for awhile. I wasn’t posting because I didn’t have any updates. I do today! I finished Month by Month last night. It’s stitched on 28 count Zweigart in Pearl Linen. Now I just need to find the right frame and figure out where to hang it. Now on to the next cross stitch project!

Yesterday we went to Amish country. Took my father-in-law to lunch and stopped at Lehman’s. They have an outlet on the other side of hte parking lot and I ran in to see if there was anything interesting. I found a couple of fat quarters for 1.25 and a BUNCH of thread really cheap! I got 2 YLI spools (the big ones) for 2.99 each and 6 spools of Gutermann for 2.95 each. I couldn’t pass up that deal!

I also finished another hexagon diamond and started the next one. Almost time to kit up some more! Still trying to find a hand quilting class so I can start quilting the hexagon quilt, but I’m in no hurry. I have a lot of projects to get done in the next few months, some are Christmas presents I have planned, we’ll see if I get any of them done!

Hope to be back soon with some updates!

Big Update!

I’ve been busy! I finished another hexagon diamond last night, and I have the next 3 ready to be basted. This one is using just Equinox fabric, I have a couple like this – I have lots of scraps!

Yesterday I took one of my new stencils and made my own pantagraph. I took some of Alex’s drawing paper, cut it in half and taped enough together to get the width I need for the scrappy car quilt. I’m hoping to get it quilted in the next day or so, I’d like to take it to guild this week.

I’ve also been working on Month by Month from Sunflower Seed. I’m now halfway done, and still have no clue where it’s going to go! I’m debating taking down a collage frame in the hallway and putting cross stitch up. But I also have a spot upstairs in the hallway I could put stuff. I just don’t know what to do! I finally put up Dream, Hope, Believe, and Imagine in my office along with the Blessed are the Piece Makers one.

Yesterday I also decided to work on my Quilt Show 2010 BOM. I got the next row of borders put together and I’m planning on working on it today. Hoping to make some progress today, then I’m thinking tomorrow I can work on quilting the scrappy car quilt. I doubt it’ll take long to quilt it, it’s only 36″ x 36″!

Please don’t forget to vote for my quilt Patriotic Lone Star over at Quilting Gallery!

Vote and Hexi Update

I submitted one of my quilts into this week’s contest at Quilting Gallery. Please go over and vote for me, it’s the red, white and blue Lone Star Quilt!

I made a purse for my sister this week (forgot to get a picture) and I will not make another one of these ever again. The instructions SUCKED! I had to get hubby to help me figure out what I was supposed to be doing, I just could not understand what they wanted me to do. At least it’s done and she said she liked it.

I’ve managed to complete 2 diamonds for my new hexagon quilt, slow going because there are more pieces in each diamond, but I think it’ll look really cool when it’s all done. I’ve already started working on the 3rd one.

I got my stencils yesterday, now I’m going to see if I can figure out a way to make them into pantographs so I can use them on my frame upstairs. I have a few quilts to get quilted, my sister is getting antsy for hers!

Off to take a nap, Alex was up at 4:15 this morning and I didn’t get enough sleep!

New Quilt/Learnings

Well, I’ve been busy this week! I posted on Monday that I started a new quilt, it’s now done! Here’s my question though, does it need another border? It’s about 36″ x 36″ and I’m only planning on using it as a quilt in the car, for Alex or if we go on a picnic or something. I won’t be quilting it until I get my new stencils – and I don’t know when that will be since my order says Pending on the site! It went together very quickly and I love that I used fabrics from the stash, NOTHING new was bought!

I’ve been thinking about my next hexagon quilt this week and I think I’ve got it designed the way I want it. The example I found on PaperPieces.com has the diamonds vertically, but I think I like them on their sides. None of the colors in the EQ version match what I’m actually going to use, since I’ll be pulling from the 2.5″ square bin to make all the diamonds. I think I’ll do all the diamonds and then put them together with the white, or at least I’ll see how far I get with the hexi papers I already have printed out! I’ve figured I need 59 full diamonds and 12 half diamonds and this one will finish at 79″ x 85″. Huge for me! I just checked sizes and it looks like that might be large enough to fit our king size bed! I’d have to put big enough borders to hang down the sides, although I might put it on the bed in the guest room. It’ll be awhile before it’s finished, so I guess it doesn’t matter right now!

I was playing with EQ today while Alex played and hubby was busy on his laptop and learned some new things. I didn’t realize that you could create a quilt layout from a block! Here’s the caveat though, the block can only have horizontal and vertical lines – no diagonals or it won’t work. I also figured out how to break blocks apart in Word so that you can show how to make a block, that’s cool! I did find something I’m disappointed in though, I created the new hexagon quilt in EQ on my mac (using software called VirtualBox to run windows) and created it in a new project. I can move blocks, layouts (uncolored), photos, fabrics into another project but not colored quilts! I wanted to move the new quilt into my hexagon project, that sucker took a long time to color in! Oh well, maybe in the next version?

Well, I’m off to start working on the new hexagon quilt, I think I’ll print out some more papers, I think I’ll need them!