No, today is not my birthday. 8/23 is my birthday. Just so you can start planning for next year ;)
Here is the progress on my Grandmother's Flower Garden blocks. The original larger red one was repurposed to a candle mat. I have it pinned and ready to applique onto a backing.
I took Elisabeth to the doctor this AM. Her asthma is flaring up, which it rarely does. When we arrived at the doc's, I only had the purple blossom finished. It didn't seem like we were waiting that long, but I added the 4 green hexies and the blue blossom while we waited. These do stitch up quite quickly.
To give a size comparison, there is a picture with my hand. I also am showing the back. When Susie and I went to Franklin to see Bonnie, Bonnie sewed one hexie while she was sitting with me during show and tell. That was all the tutorial I needed. Basically, you baste the sides down and then use shallow stitches to sew the hexies to each other. I got some cardstock-thickness hexies at Mary Jo's last week to give this a whirl.
Here you go...
After a hexie is completely surrounded with others, one may remove the paper inside. That's why the outer edge of my piece still has the paper in there.
~Joan
1 comment:
Love them! I just started making hexies using Paper Pieces - I'm doing the 3/8" - they are so cute.
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