It's Hexie Friday

I've a very busy day tomorrow so since it's only a couple of hours for the start of Friday here, I'm going to post my Hexie Friday progress now.

 

Got my third flower done and prepped the next center.  I'd hope to work on the first block but ran out of time.

 

Here are the three in an approximate layout for the block.  You can probably guess where this is going. Feel free to guess.

 

In case you didn't see it, go on over to Quilt Inspiration - they have some fabulous vintage hexie quilts in a recent post.  Love it!

 

Have you been working on a hexie project?  Have an old one or future one you can share? Or one you spotted on the Web?  We'd love to see it.  You can see Billie's progress/or not (we've both agreed this post was as life leaves us time) at her blog. So far these Friday eye candy links have been inspiring us to move along on our hexie hand piecing projects.  Here's the linky button:



And the Winners are...

of the 750th Blog Post Giveaway(I hadn't forgotten - just waiting to hear from the quilters) [I used Random.org to pick the winners]:

The 7 quilt items go to Terri J.  Here's what she'll be getting:

a Kim Schaefer's Calendar Quilts pattern pack -lots of yummy applique there!; a Pine Meadows pattern of Cardinals; a spool of water soluble basting thread - great for applique too; a spool of Wonderfil Mirage variegated thread; one 1/4 yard WOF and 1/2 yard of Free Spirit fabric and one Fat Quarter of brown and white dots.  Congrats, Terri!

Winning the 5 items was Michelle T of Canada.  She's getting:

the book Little Lone Star Quilts; a charm pack from Laundry Basket Quilts, a Southwind Designs pattern called Turtle Trails, a package of Texture Magic and an Aunt Becky's Finger Protector. Congrats, Michelle!

And thank you to all of you who left comments and shared your wonderful eye candy.  You made my 750th blogging post milestone very special.

Applique Thursday and a Giveaway

Got a little bit done on my Whimsical applique block:

It wouldn't have been so difficult if I'd done as I usually do and thrown the fabric for the flower on the background and seen if the dots showed.  They did, but I didn't find this out until I had already fused and cut out all the petals!  So I had to sandwich some more yellow and do them all over.  Oh well - more fusible scraps thrown into my bag.

Thanks to all who shared their eye candy.  It was so much fun reading about it on your blogs and seeing more in previous post, too.  This week we have another book giveaway.  This one is Simply Landscapes by Judy Sisneros.  You could easily add applique elements to any of her quilts.
I'm thinking you'll really like this one:

 

 To win this copy, all you need to do is comment or link to have a chance for it to be yours. Or do both and have two chances. And for extra chances, tell your friends about this giveaway. If they comment or link and mention you in their comment, you'll automatically get another entry in this giveaway. Submissions end Wednesday night. Use the blue link below. And remember, it doesn't have to be applique (that you share that is) - all sorts of eye candy is eligible and very welcome - even projects you finished a while ago - it's all new to me.