Hexie Friday on Saturday

Once again, I'm late getting to post this, but I did make some hexies this week. Little Bear (my treasured miniature made by my DD) is smiling at the bit I've done.

There's a Hexie Blog Hop coming soon! See Debby's post here. I look forward to seeing all the projects offered during its run.  In the meantime, I'd love to see your progress here with a linky to your eye candy of any kind.
Blue button below.

Have a wonderful weekend.  Mine will be filled with dots!

Oh, the Learning Curve in attempting LE!

or the latest good/bad of quilting.  I made my compass - you saw it on a past post.  Next step was to attach a circle with the 5/16ths dots on it.  I cut my background square, drew the circle and position of the dots, tried some of the dots - worked okay - I was surprised with the needle turning.  Here is my saving piece of equipment that made it possible to answer the question:  How do you applique such a tiny dot?

Yes! - A magnifier.  I remembered I'd gotten this from my neighbor.  You put the strap around your neck and balance it on midriff.  Makes what you're working on 2 times bigger than it actually is.  I don't know the power, but it did the trick and did 8 dots as a start. HOWEVER, once I tried to reverse applique the  circle to the compass - the compass was too big!  And I couldn't tell around the edge if I was sewing it with the right seam allowance.  Arrgh.  Plus the dots wouldn't line up right.  Ready to throw in the towel, I took out the reverse applique (only a bit over a 1/4th of it done before I saw the pending disaster), and drew with my drawing compass an exact 8" circle on freezer paper for the unfinished compass. Then I found the exact center of my compass, and ironed the FP to the Compass. I then cut off the excess fabric from the side where I had very generous 1/4" from point tip to edge.  Then what?!  After some pulling out hair and gnawing of cheek, I decided to just pretend it was 4 joined drunkard's path blocks and sew the seam with my machine. Sort of success -

I forgot to mark the 4 quarters of the circle and at the last one had a little fullness to contend with. Ay de mí!  By taking out a bit of the first quarter circle seam, finishing the seam and then ironing and starching the circle - I got to the above. But now it looks too flat to me!!  It's going to be a longgggggggg 18 months - but I'm learning new things.  That's my good/bad of quilting for this week.  I'm linking to Block Lotto to  commiserate with other quilters.

Look what the Mailman brought!

I won this lovely kit from Carrie at A Passion for Applique!  She hosts the challenge - Nothing But UFOs and as an incentive to get us to keep working on our UFOs monthly she has a giveaway.  In June, I won!  LOL - this would be my fifth applique project I am currently working on if I start it soon.  Maybe I'll wait to start it in August as my NewFO.  It comes with a luscious fabric for the columns between the applique that has all kinds of fancy stitches between the rows.  I love the border!  Thanks so much, Carrie!