Rekindling a love of hexies

So...

...back from this year's workshops and shows...

...and now for the beginning of some well-deserved "me-time"!!

I really feel like I've been running a constant marathon for the last 3-4 years.

I want to have a couple of sloooooow looooong-term projects on the go...

...and hexies fit the bill beautifully!

These are for a wall quilt...

...that requires over 2,950 mini-hexagons. Mini as in sides being half an inch (12mm). :-)

It has begun....

 Many have been marked-out and cut...

Loads and loads of papers pieces pile up....

Some were done at Cardiff Quilters yesterday :-) (Nice to be back)

And.....to give you an idea of the size.....

Not only is a wall quilt being planned...

...but some holiday hexies too.

Just drool over these fabrics ready for an eagerly anticipated trip to somewhere utterly beautiful!!

Getting excited now...

x C

Sashiko samples piling up!!

This pile of Sashiko workshop samples is piling up nicely!

I've done the larger pieces...

...and have top-stitched around all the hexagons...

...which I much prefer to seeing them plain.

I know I won't get them all finished before Venice...

...but they won't take me too long...

...and they'll be up on my stand at the NEC in March!! :-)

Now I need to go tidy my table.

I had one avalanche yesterday...

...and there'll be more to follow if I don't move some of the stuff!

x C

New Japanese-themed workshop samples for 2018

Yes. I know it's still 2017...

...and Christmas isn't here yet...

...but 2018 is just around the corner...

...and I need to get a move-on with some samples for my new Japanese-themed workshops!

These pieces will be composite...

...using stencils with Markal Paintstiks...

...some Sashiko stitching...

...and some Hexagon patchwork in delicious indigo fabrics!

I might even use some glittery bits....

....it's all getting "interesting" at the minute...

(and I needed a break from stitching on beads!!!!)

Sayonara...

x C