the last week or so has been very sad with the passing of some people who had touched our lives & we are left wondering why. anytime someone leaves the face of the earth expectantly i always turn inward and re-examine my life & my purpose for being here. i tend to stop & notice the simpler things more - from the moon on a clear night to the local high school football game going on down the road. i realize just how truly blessed i am to be living the life i have & i thank the Big Man upstairs everyday for that & the people in my life. taking time to pause & be grateful for what we have should be a daily occurrence for each of us.
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i was very grateful that this past weekend my BFF Shelly got to come to my house for a weekend of sewing & hanging out. Shelly missed our quilt camp so this was sort of a make up mini camp for us.
i got the above quilt quilted which had been prepped and ready for ummmm 3 months or so. i put the binding on it last night but no pic of that.
i made my bee block for Sue in my Bee Splendid group. these were something that i had never done before & it took me a bit to get it all figured out but once i did i really enjoyed making them.
i hope Sue likes them.
i also got the next block in the Fat Quarter Shop's Mystery Designer BOM done.
the other HUGE item on my weekend to do list was to finish my Hexi QA quilt that i did from Julie's website Jaybird Quilts. i had laid it out a couple months ago & cut all of the setting triangles. thank goodness i was smart enough to take a few pictures before i picked up all of the rows and labeled them. i ended up going back & looking at the pics to confirm a couple of the block placements. 
so once i got the main center of the quilt together i decided that it needed something extra. the 1st thing i did was add a navy boarder & then i used a honeybun in Neptune to add a 1" square pieced boarder around that & then finished it off with another navy boarder.
i am pretty much in LOVE with this quilt. if you have been reading my blog for awhile you know that i like to set blocks in darker fabric & this is my 1st quilt that i have done in navy. i loved doing the quilt along that Julie taught. it was easy to follow & yet it challenged me & i learned new things as we went along.
the next big question. how to quilt it???i will quilt it myself & i have a few ideas but this is one of those quilts that will sit for awhile until i am 100% sure about what to do. i am sure you all have had those quilts & then one day it hits you & you know 'yep' that's how i am suppose to quilt it.
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i am challenging myself to sewing every night this week. so i am signing off to head to the sewing cave to maybe start on a new bag for myself.
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happy sewing to you all.
PS - we find out Thursday if my SIL is having a boy or a girl. once we know let the sewing begin for the upcoming addition to the family.
4 comments:
OK - I just realized I can delete a comment, so you don't get to see the dumb mistake I made! You had a really productive (and fun!) weekend - I love your hexi quilt, and it just sparkles in the navy blue background! And your blocks for Sue are great - I agree it was harder than it seemed like it would be, but it was fun!
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