Hexie Weekend again!

Friday's seem to come around faster and faster! Where did the week go?  First off, the winner of last week packet of  the 100 paper hexie templates (3/4" sides) is Sally of Sally's Quilts.  Congratulations, Sally.  I'll send you an email shortly and once I have your snail mail, I'll send them out to you.  I have another set ready to go to another linker to this week's linky party.  If you can't use the 3/4" sided hexies, give them to a friend and start them off on their hexie journey.


I got a little farther with my Souçon quilt.  I decided my part 5 was going to have diamonds in the border. Hmm. I wonder if it is significant that I'm working on both part 5s of LE and Soupçon?

Anyway, I discovered that I had to change my glue sequence in order to make it easier to turn the seam allowance on these babies.  Instead of going around the hexie  I need to do two opposite sides as you see here.

 That template was part of an ad and that's why it looks oddly colored, but it worked fine.

 Then to do the other two opposite side, I placed my finger nail where the template reaches a point in the acute angle tip and cut the triangle off just after my fingernail.  You don't have to cut at the other angle as it is an obtuse (greater than 90) and the seam allowance won't be a problem. Apply the glue at each corner going toward the center and fold over.  You'll have very little to turn under with your needle to make a sharp point. See photo below.

So this is what I decided to do with my hexie flowers and the diamonds:

What do you think? The corner concerns me, so please let me know,  and be sure to link for the giveaway.   You don't have to do a new post - any post with eye candy will do - we love eye candy.  The linky is below; ends Monday, midnight. Good luck in the giveaway.

An InLinkz Link-up

I'm linking to Richard's Link it up Friday and Sarah's Whoop Whoop Fridays. See you there.

I Finished Part 5 of LE!

April Fools!  Don't I wish!!  I did get farther along though.

Those leaves were so small - not as small as the stems  - grin, but close, so I chose to do them another way rather than individually.  As you can see from the photo below - those leaves were down to 3/4" long and 3/8" or less wide.  No way was I going to do them individually.

I decided to do them in pairs as they would sit under the stem. Some have probably done it this way, but it was a lightbulb moment for me - hehe.

Much easier.  What have you been working on?  Please leave me a comment, so I can go to your blog or photostream, and see what goodies you are working on.  I'm linking to Esther's WOW and Connie's Linky Tuesday Party - lots of goodies there, and to Judy's Design Wall since this part is still up there.

Bye for now!

Finished Eying the Line

Finished eyeing the line FMQ on this baby quilt.  Click here to see more of the quilting. I used warm and natural that says it can be quilted up to 10" apart.  All the squares that were formed by the quilting are less than that.  My question is when is quilting enough quilting?

I'm linking to Leah's FMQ Project and Sarah Whoop, Whoop.  Get inspired!