Hex and BD update for 2026

 

Well, we finally did get to my favorite Mexican restaurant a week after my birthday!  I love Mexican but weather wasn't co-oporating for us!  We invited Donna as our guest.  We always celebrate her BD and mine.  Donna is 10 years older than I am...so next year we'll be celebrating our 80th! and 90th! birthday's!  This is SO hard for me to believe.  Neither of us feel our ages.

  I am fortunate to have the friends I do as they keep me busy and engaging. Look at all the wonderful cards I received.  Some actually made me shed a tear...they were so sweet!! 

Our backyard for girls

This was taken a week ago and we've had more snow since that picture was taken.  

Fortunately we don't need to go anywhere, therefore, I don't mind staying home!

Part of our deck and woods behind our house

The poor kids in Indiana had 15" of snow!  It was hard for Ron to 1) get the snowblower out of the shed and 2) to use the snow blower as the snow was over the top of the machine!  

So what else to do but cook and sew!  I'm making ham and scalloped potatoes tonight for dinner along with roasted veggies.  And now to sit and stitch...I save sewing the hex fabric to paper for nighttime  watching football or while Bob is watching basketball.  

I decided to start on green for awhile.  I get tired of the same color fabric after awhile!  HA

I found some of these blue hex pieces I've already sewn together.  I have a feeling I'll be 'unsewing' some of the rows so the colors are more in line with what I may need.  I have lots of blue fabrics from light to dark so shouldn't need to go fabric shopping (I know a shame, isn't it Susan! - my quilt shopping bud from Florida!).

These 3 triangles are finished.  I start with 1 hex and add each row up to 8 rows ...but I'm still playing around with a layout when I finish more triangles.  I won't know or decide layout until I have a lot more triangles made.  I'm actually thinking of a table runner???  

Or will it be a quilt???  Who knows.  Until then....

I keep on stitching hex pieces!  These are all ready to start to sew together.  This should keep me busy since we're housebound!  HA

I have a piece of batting on top of a piece of poster board.  I can pick up the piece and move it and the pieces stay in place. 

Hope my readers are staying warm and enjoying the winter of 2026!

And the quilting begins!

 I posted last week showing how many hex pieces I have in different colorways.  Kathy, from Quirks Ltd., had a good suggestion in the comments for that post:   "How about going HUUUUUGE and using the hexies as a colorful, uneven border around the leaf piece? It could be a challenge and a super gorgeous piece when done!".  Now this is a good idea!!  

I  used hex's for a border last January for the cyano quilt top...you can read about it here.   This was a small piece and fun to do but looking at it now I see where some of the dark blue hex's in the border are faded into the background...but the entire border was hex pieces.  HA

Reinventing the Wheel
by Erin Davis

Using Kathy's idea for a border for my large leaf pattern I posted last week could work!  But I started searching for hex patterns to see if something similar with hex borders might get me inspired!  And what did I find but this stunning quilt!

It was designed and made by Erin @ Sew At Home Mommy in 2015.  And if you can believe it, this quilt was rejected at Quilt Con that year!  I love her planning and design for this quilt.  If you click on the link above, you can read the entire story on this quilt called 'Reinventing the Wheel'.

And check out some of Erin's other works!!!  She also has a FB page, which I am now following: @https://www.facebook.com/sewathomemummy

I emailed Erin and asked her if I could use her idea to create a quilt based on her design.  And she gave me permission to use it!  I was so excited so I started to lay out some red hex pieces!  HA  

Come to find out I need quite a few more in dark reds and bright reds.  But what's more fun than sewing hexes!!!  It's so relaxing...but now I have to find some more the red fabric.  I used quite a few in the cyano quilt top above.  But I'm sure I can find more. 

And, who knows Kathy!, this project might end up using some leftover hex pieces in the border!  Thanks for the comments!  Suggestions always welcome!!!!  Now on to sewing hex's while watching football!!!