Hexie Weekend and a Finish!

Before I show you my hexies, here's the lap quilt I made using Jenny Doan's Self Binding Receiving Blanket tutorial.  Go here to read about it.  This one is going to a local Breast Cancer Center. I was wondering if it would work as a rectangle - Jenny made a square one - and yes, it does work as long as you mark those centers. It measures around 38 by 46.  I'll be making more like this one.

I only had about a 5" square of waste using this method.

Here's the back.

It took me about 20 minutes to make not counting washing the flannel so that it would shrink.

Now for Hexies.  I took out that piece Deanna gave me and decided to sew it to the background.

I cut a wide border for around this 20" by 19" group of hexies.

This photo is more true to the colors of the pieces.

I decided to machine applique it to the background using a tiny zig zag
stitch, a 60/8 sharp needle with pale green Invisifil thread and Bottom Line in the bobbin.

So that's it - a finish and progress on one of my hexies.  What have you been working on?  Linky below (this week ends 3/6, Thursday, near midnight). Remember it doesn't have to be hexies. Billie and I like all sorts of projects.  And this week by linking, you're automatically entered in my blog anniversary giveaway.  That post coming up next.

An InLinkz Link-up

I'm linking to Amanda Jean's Finish it Up Friday, Richard's Link a Finish and TGIFF. Lots of creativity there.

Applique Tuesday

Well, I should have been doing applique!  I got as far as printing the pattern for Block 2 of the Benjamin Biggs Wedding Quilt and a bit more bias stems made for LE - not much!  Instead I spent my little quilty time trying out a Jenny Doan tutorial on a self binding recieving blanket.  I'm thinking if I can master it (and like Jenny said: it only takes about 10 minutes), and figure out how to add batting, St. Anne's would have more quilts faster for our clients.  I tried a smaller one and the mitered corners didn't come out too well. I can't figure out what I did wrong - probably in the cutting or maybe I didn't fold it right. ?? However I managed to salvage something from my test run.

 One corner worked.  The others had some fullness. So I wound up folding that fullness under and sewing the miters down.

 It's good enough for me to use as a napkin.

Or maybe as a placemat?  I seem to remember seeing a post by someone that used this method to add binding to a quilt.  If you know of one, please let me know.

Okay, not applique, so I'd love you to leave me a comment on yours so I can go to your blog and sigh over it. Look forward to hearing from you!

Friday Feb 28th - Giveaways, too!

I'm linking to Connie's Linky Tuesday, Esther's Wow, and Lorna's Let's Be Social. 

Design Wall Monday

Here's the mystery quilt from that retreat a couple of weekends ago.  I'm putting the rows together now.

It will be 38" square and I'll be giving it to St. Anne's Sewdality as my finished quilt for the month. Have to keep busy with it.  What's on your design wall?  I'm linking to Judy's Patchwork Times and Lyn's BOMs Away again.

Oh and don't forget to come back this Friday, the 28th, for my 5th Blogging Anniversary and giveaways.