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Who loves Hexagons?

I am participating in a huge blog hop celebrating hexagons
and today is my day to share.

Thanks to Madame Samm for continuing to
come up with all these great ideas for the hops and

thanks to Debby our cheerleader, who has been so sweet with her reminder emails and her hard work getting all the links sorted out.
I am sure it is not as easy as it looks.

So what did I do to honor the Hexagon?

I purchased these

thinking I would make a grandmother's flower garden quilt.

But after making three english paper pieced hexagons I knew in my heart a flower garden was not going to happen.

I decided I didn't like hexagons at all.
I know there are so many other ways to play with
hexagons so I had to noodle out a new idea.

After a lot of thought I decided to start a quilt for
my grand baby, due in a few months.
I started by drawing a sketch and then a few pattern pieces.

Well instead of talking your ear off . . . I'll just show you a few pics.

I used hexagons as the background for this fused applique owl.

her eyes, upper wing, and tail feathers have hints of hexagons.

did you see her butterfly tattoo?

I allowed the hexagons to overlap the right side border.

I used a zig-zag stitch to quilt in the ditch

If you look closely you'll see birds on the leaves of the tree.

A few details:

I used six wedges of fabric for each eye feather area and a wonky hexagon for each eye. I didn't want them to match exactly.
I also used fabric pencils to shade a few areas. Her beak was too blah until I shaded it and made it stand out.

in progress


shading done

hello !

I wanted it to be super puffy
so I used two layers of batting

finished size - 30"x 50" ( when binding is added )

So back to the question

Who loves hexagons?
well . . .
even though they look pretty good as a sky background,

Not me.

and what about all those paper hexagons?

well
I painted them

I'll be able to use these in my art journals.
Nothing wasted.

Thanks for stopping by !

Have a Happy day !

Please visit these wonderful quilters who are sharing their projects with us today.

We Shall Sew

Life@RuffHaven

Pieced Brain

Den Syende Himmel

Creatin’ in the Sticks

Meadowbrook

Sandra Kaye Designs

Let’s Patch it Up

Sew Many Yarns

Around the Homestead

Sew Mollie Sue, Quilt Much?

The whole list of participants is here on Debby's blog

Tuesday, Tea and a Butterfly Tattoo

Good Morning Tuesday

Every Tuesday bloggers are gathering and linking with

Elizabeth with whatever is in their cup.

The rules are simple.

Share a drink and share whatever else you want.

Tea is not required.

I have been working on a quilt as a part of a huge blog hop so

I thought I would show you a sneak peek.

The Tea

Tazo Sweet Cinnamon Spice

The Mug

nothing special
old old old from Target

The Art

you can read about it here

see the butterfly tattoo on her wing?

I need to add binding.

I was going to bind it with blue but changed my mind.

It needs to be black or a very dark brown.

I hope your day is sunny and bright and the rest of the week as well.

Marianne

Ho Ho Holy Moly... it's time for holiday sewing

I can't think of a better way to kick-start the
Holiday Sewing Season than a Quilters Blog Hop?

Madame Samm and Carol have the spirit and energy
to round us all up and put us in one spot.
Thanks to both of them for all their hard work.

The most difficult part of these hops is to actually come up with a good idea.

.... just one good idea.

I was pondering this and the lifeguard said....

"Make something practical and useful"

Duh !

Sometimes men can be so smart.

So what could I make that will be used a lot during the holidays?

A bag.

A very BIG bag.

A Mondo Bag.

A bag you can fit all your stuff in.

A bag big enough to haul all your stuff home.

I picked up this pattern last year at a quilt show in Florida.

It is by QuiltSmart and has preprinted fusible interfacing.

You can't get any easier than that right?

This bag took 3 hours to whip up and it would have been even

quicker if I had used precut strips.

But I didn't have any of those so I cut my own strips.

I quilted "in the ditch" because ~~I didn't want the ....~~
oh heck....because it's easy to stitch in the ditch...
who am I trying to kid.
I ran out of time again.
sheeeesh.
One of these days I am going to finish way way ahead of time.

I have these two quilt tops to finish before December too.

Thanks for stopping by for a look.
No giveaway this time but scroll to the bottom of this post for
news about my Huge giveaway coming soon.

Enjoy the hop.

The list of hoppers today....

August 5

Cherry’s Prairie Primitives

Scraps of Life

Words & Stitches

Blue Heron Quilts

More Stars in Comanche

Handmade by Mama

Julie from Quilted Works (on my blog)

In Stitches and Seams

Scrapbook ChickADoodle

Jane’s Quilting

Beaquilter

Life@RuffHaven

and the entire list.....
Here

Happy Sewing !
Happy Ho Ho Ho - ing !

Oh ....one more thing
I will be having a HUGE giveaway on August 10th !
There are several ways to follow this blog
listed in my sidebar.
So follow me now and come back to see what I have planned.
It's a big one.
5 big boxes full of goodies for 5 happy winners.
Yes there will be one huge box just for quilters.
(holiday fabric, patterns, gift cards, notions)
I did a giveaway like this a few years ago and it was so much fun.
Please plan to come back on the 10th
to enter.

Thanks for stopping by
Marianne

also linking to Sew Many Ways ... So Darn Crafty