Design Wall Monday

Early this morning, I actually pulled up the covers over myself - yeah, the hot spell has broken!  I am so relieved.  I don't know how long it will last, but I'm enjoying every minute of coolness for now - it's only 79 degrees in the house right now!

 I decided to do a little straightening in the sewing area.  So now on my design wall is this pile of scraps.  It's time to deal with some of them.

Three hours later (after a couple of cool down/water stops) I'd produced these:

 four small units that measure only 9" by 10" when put together.  Designing fabric is much harder than one thinks! Maybe I'll give the rest of those scraps away - this is taking too much time away from applique.  Stay tuned. I should have decided by Friday.

What's on your design wall?  I'm linking to Judy's wall at Patchwork Times and Lyn's BOMs Away.  See you there.

Stash Report 9/8/13

Despite the heat, flowers bloom - at least the cactus variety do.  Another bouquet my DH brought up for me to admire from the window.  Today it's suppose to be under 100, maybe 99, hah!

On to quilty things, I used a yard for the back of a VA quilt, 3/4's yd for a happy bag, a fat quarter of scraps plus a fat quarter for the backing for a place mat I made - I'll show it later.  That's 2.25 yards used this past week. Then, I bought a half yd of orange for enhance my stash. Oh, and I donated a yard to the Thrifty Corner.  Here are my numbers:

in 0.5 yds.; out 3.25 yds.

Stash in YTD: in 9.0 yds., out 98.81 yds.

Donated YTD: 42.96 yds

Net for 2013: out 89.81 yds

 Now how did your de-stashing go?  I'm linking to Judy's Patchwork Times. See you there.

Hexie Friday here again

And what have you been up to?  Here, not much, still due to the heat, but the weather man is promising it will start cooling down tomorrow.  Do I believe him?  Well, there's  tropical storm Lorena moving up Baja, so I won't be surprised if we get more muggy, hot weather toward the end of next week.  I'll just enjoy the 92-97 days and say no more about it.  I'm such a wimp.
Here the bit I got done on my latest hexi flower:

How are you doing on yours?  I have a friend who started one 25 years ago.  She's almost there. How's that for persistence.  Linky below, and remember it doesn't have to be a hexagon project to link.  We like all kinds of eye candy - and it doesn't have to be a new post either - an old one will do if it's new to us.  Billie is taking a family break, but I know she'll be reading the NET in between events, so she'll be thrilled to see them, too.