July 5, 2021

Stacking Hexie Flowers...

Brynwood Needleworks - Making Hexie Flowers
 
While Handsome and I did spend some time outdoors on this past weekend, I still managed to stitch quite a few hexies together to make flowers for my project. Even though I'm feeling great, I did just have major surgery less than two weeks ago. I need to keep reminding myself, so I don't overdo it.
 
I'm going to make more hexies this week, as I'm running out of fabric combinations with the choices I have left right now. I just need to fuse more hexie shapes to the backs of my small charms, and make those up, first.
 
Brynwood Needleworks - Back of Hexie Flower

I'm showing the back of one of the flowers to you so you can see all the teeny, tiny stitches I take to join the hexies together. It's very zen-like to hold the pieces in my hands and take these little stitches to join them. I'd share a short video if I thought you'd like to see me working. Let me know in the comments.

I'll leave the tacking stitches (white thread) in until I'm ready to trim and attach the flowers to my ground fabric. They keep everything neat and tidy at this point.

Tag will be here tomorrow (poor devil) to share some interesting news. I'll be back on Wednesday to share my progress with these. If you have the day off today, enjoy another day of the holiday weekend. It's going to be hot, hot outside, so you'll find me in a comfy chair with needle and thread...and my morning coffee.
 
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8 comments:

  1. I would be interested to see a video of how this is done.

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    1. Hi Bonnie:
      Thanks! I'll see if I can make that happen for you.
      xoxo
      Donna

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  2. Those hexies are too cute, love the color combination.
    Any video by you would be fun!
    Marilyn

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    1. Hi Marilyn:
      Thanks so much! I'll try to record one in the next few days.
      xoxo
      Donna

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  3. I love the colours in your hexies - they will make a beautiful quilt. I'm attempting to deal with my guilt over not doing anything with mine (not that I'm blaming you for that in any way...ahem)

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    1. Hi Maggie:
      Oh, please don't feel any guilt! It's supposed to be fun, and if you're not ready to work on it and have fun, leave everything tucked away for now. Play (virtually) with mine!
      xoxo
      Donna

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    2. I don't like having UFO's - mainly because I don't have space for them. Unfortunately I have two, both rather large ones.

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  4. Such pretty fabrics! I'm back to making hexies again this year. Which reminds me, I need to go cut more fabric too!!

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Blessings, Donna