Super Bowl Sunday...

I'm actually not much of a football fan anymore, preferring baseball when it's on or I can go to a live game. Sunday, the television was set to watch the Super Bowl, and I wanted to keep my hands busy.

I spent some time tearing up the studio this weekend, and came across my project bag holding these Plum Sweet hexies, so I thought hexies would be the perfect past time.

I still don't know what I'll create with them, but they're likely to become a table runner for my favorite aunt. shhhh. Don't tell her!

I'll be splitting my time between computer, kitchen, and studio this week. I'm going to make a To Do list to help me focus and stay on task. It always helps. I'll share my projects, as always so you know what I'm up to. 

 

I'm Hexied!...

Brynwood Needleworks - Lots of Hexie Flowers

 I've been busy with my hexie project! So far. they're assembled in groups of seven to look like flowers. (See where my logo is at the bottom of the photograph? Make that one #1, and then count five more clockwise, around that creamy white center.) I haven't sewn the flowers together yet, as I contemplate what I'd like for a finished product.

 

I'm trying to decide whether to stitch them together (like this) to make a table runner, or separate them to stitch onto a whole cloth background. Handsome said he likes them scattered onto a ground fabric to show off the flower shapes (plus the end project will be larger). I'm torn.

What do you think?

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.