Design Wall Monday 7/8/13

Here's my compass for the Love Entwined Coverlet. First one I've ever made.  And it was paper piecing, ugh - not my favorite, but I learned a good bit from making it.  First off if one folds the paper at the sewing line, making sure of the correct seam allowance is easy. If the piece you're adding is roughly a larger version of the one on the paper, it's usually the right size, but to be sure, I made an extra copy of the section and cut it up and used it to determine rectangles for each part. A trick I learned from Esther Aliu - is color one of the segments so you don't sew the wrong piece to the wrong place. And - if you do them assembly style, it doesn't seem like such a chore to make 8 segments (cuz most paper pieced blocks are more than one segment - LOL).  Phew! I got through the sewing with only one seam to rip. Oh and the center is appliqued. Except for the background, this will be a big scrappy quilt. Now for the ring around it.

I'm linking to Judy's Patchwork Times, Esther's Wow, and Lyn's BOMs Away  as this is part of a 18 month BOM.  What are you up to?

Sunday Stash Report 7/7/13

After working on the LE compass thought I'd work on something easier, so I made two quilt tops for my charity work, so that used up 2.5 yards of fabric. And I gave up another 2 yards as a donation to our guild's Thrifty Corner.  Here are my numbers:

in 0.0 yds.; out 4.5 yds.

Stash YTD: in 8.5 yds., out 86.41 yds.

Donated YTD: 40.96 yds

Net for 2013: out 77.91 yds

I'm linking over to Judy's Patchwork Times - go see how others are de-stashing.  And here's another bouquet from my DH garden:

I love the color of these Rebutia flowers, but watch out for the spines!

It's Hexie Friday!

Yesterday we celebrated our country's birthday!  We had a great time. Friends and family came over for dessert and fireworks.

We sang Happy Birthday to America and had our Italian guest visiting via Sweden blow out the candle.  Then came fireworks.  We live on the south slope of the mountain in the center of town and every year the city fathers treat us to a fireworks display.  This year's was great!

Now for hexies - I did manage to sew a few together this week despite all the work on my compass for the LE BOM.  Half way to another block!

 

And to get it into better size perspective - here it is with last weeks finished flower:

 



Do you have a hexie project to share -old, new, or on your wish list?  We'd love to see your eye candy even if it isn't hexie-wise. Linky below, and have a great weekend.