Showing posts with label Nikki's Hexie Swap. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nikki's Hexie Swap. Show all posts

Monday, March 10, 2014

Maniac Monday 2~Hexie Time



Over the last few weeks I have been up and down with my health. I will not go into all of it but I am alive and kicking! That is a good thing.

I have been getting caught up on my hexies for The Inchy Hexagon Flower Swap.

December
The ones I sent:

 The ones I received:


January
Sent:

Received:
 I also received this sweet crocheted heart!

February
Sent:

Received:

March
Sent:

I have not yet received my March hexies. Soon I am sure. 

Oh but my daughter did make one for me.

TTFN

Saturday, June 29, 2013

Catching Up on a Few Things

A couple more flowers I have sent to DD#1.



Next on my list of It's A Mini Quilt Along #3 Flying Around In Circles. I used Kona Black and vintage sheets. I love the way it turned out! It looks better in person!

 I used those two Moda Candy charm packs to work on my Schnibbles Morsel pattern. You end up making some very fun pincushions. I made 5. I am not sure why but I kept sewing until I ran out. I went to town yesterday and bought a huge bag of crushed walnut shells in the lizard section of a pet store. I will be filling then and finishing them up soon.
 This picture shows what I have left of those two packs. I am sure I will make something out of them as well. HA HA I am not wasting that fabric.

TTFN

Sunday, June 2, 2013

UFO's, Hexies, Schibbles, and Frustrating Machine Problems

A couple more UFO's to add to my list. I am hoping this is the end of them. Now I need to organize them and start knocking them out.
These two sweet pile below are bundles I pulled out of Traveling Stash boxes a while ago. 

The first one is a collection of 30's Applecore pieces. I have a thing for 30's fabric and I have never done curved piecing so this really appealed to me. I love rainbows also!

The next one is a stack of Hawaiian prints. The are so cool. I need to take them apart and look through them. I think it would make a fun summer quilt. I'm thinking it could be an I Spy Quilt. Below are some pictures of a few of the prints. 

My daughter that is in college wanted to have a hand project that was small that she could do between massive amounts of homework. She has been watching me make Hexies for over two years. So I set her up with a kit. S loves them. So now we are trading Hexies. She has requested bright petals with yellow centers. These are the ones I sent her. She loved them.

 I am going to stay with my same requested red/orange/yellow petals with a lighter matching center. These are the ones she made me. They will fit right into the garden I am already making. Thank you dear!
 

I was able to finish my May Schnibble, Gentle Art. It is Prayer Flag by April Cornell for Moda. I love it. I also have a Jelly Roll of this fabric. Below are a few pictures of this quilt as it traveled to a finished top.

I will be listing out my Le Petite and Another Year of Schnibbles projects on a page at the top beside my UFO page. I have a only one project that is quilted and bound. The rest are still tops so these are going to be a part of my UFO's but there are so many they are getting their own page, LOL!! 

This Sunday is the beginning of the link up for our H2H quilts. My second quilt is now getting quilted but my walking foot is acting funny. I bought a new one but it has the same catch in it in the same place so I am not sure if a new foot is going to fix the problem. 

The problem is the bobbin thread is not a nice tight stitch. I am able to pick out a few stitches and just pull a whole long piece of it out of the top stitches. I have adjusted the pressure on the top and bottom thread. I thought maybe it was my thread so I switched top and bottom thread. No help. I then put in a new needle. Did not help. So then I tore my machine apart and cleaned it really good. Look at all that lint!! But still no "worky". I walked away and have not looked at it all weekend. I will play with it tomorrow and hopefully I can get it to work. Now time to work on my Monday Maniac post. It will have all of my UFO's broken down and organized. I hope that tis will help me to keep going. And get a few things done!!

TTFN