I'm bringing Hexy back...

Well, it's been too long! Did you miss me? My last post was almost 6 weeks ago! I have to say... I've been a very Hexy boy since the last time :) I always say, if I'm not blogging, I'm sewing, sew that's a good thing :) If you follow me on Instagram, you definitely know what's going on. It's like my little microblogging tool :)

Sew anyway, I thought it appropriate for this post to mention that I started a Google+ community quite awhile back called "I'm Hexy and I Know It!" We've got quite a few members and so far it's been a blast seeing all the awesome Hexiness :) Come join in the fun!

Now, wanna see some pictures from the last 6 weeks?

I hope that was a yes, 'cause here goes:

 I've been getting very hexy on the train... These are 1 inchers (sides as always) using scraps from the bin :) Yay! Scrapbusting!

 These are 2 inchers and it has 20 double ring flowers with an inner border, 4 x 5 rows of flowers. It's gotta be a queen size. I have 4 rows of 5 sewn together, now I just have to sew the 4 rows together. They are just too big to take on the train now, sew I will have to finish this quilt top in another setting.

 Here is the back of the 1 inchers.... I'm just randomly picking from my stack of flowers... no rhyme or reason except to keep similar fabrics from touching each other.

Here is me busy working on it :)

 Oh, and here is where I am headed to everyday :)

 I just got this one loaded on the machine. I hope to have it quilted this weekend sew I can take it to my quilting club for show and tell on November 2nd.

Here is the top on the design wall, which I may have posted before. It has the appliqued peacock in the lower right hand corner.

Well, that's all I have for you today! Wait, I wanted to say that I did pick a winner for the giveaway for the Grandma's Lawn Chair blog hop. It was Paul B. He already received the pattern and the fabric. I threw in some die cut hexies too. He was quite happy. I was surprised that the random number generator landed on him because we had already met in cyberspace. He's a hexaholic too :) and a member of the "I'm Hexy and I Know It!" community :)

Until next time,

Mike.

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Quilting, Sewing, Gettin' My Hexy On...

Well, another month has passed. I decided another blog post is way overdue, so this is just basically a catch up post for what I have been doing since the last post.

 This one is still on the frame right now. This is the backing. I see this fabric all the time at Joann's and I finally decided I had to have it for this quilt. I am not showing the quilt top yet, as it was a pattern test for a bloggy friend, and I think she might do a blog hop, so I didn't want to spoil it.

 The pattern called for fat quarters and I had leftovers, so I made the binding scrappy.

The colors are very vibrant, and I did not wash them first so I hope the new dye catchers I bought do what they are supposed to do!

I finished a baby quilt for my office mate. He had his first. It's a boy! I didn't have this information when I made it :)

I quilted it with a loopy ruffly looking pattern.

 And, of course, I still been getting my Hexy on.... on the train commute in the mornings. There are about 50 flowers in that pile!

Last weekend I went to a thrift shop for which I had seen an ad in the paper saying fill a paper bag all you want for $5. When I showed up I found out I was a week early. I then proceded across the street to another thrift store and hit a gold mine for fabric! Boxes upon boxes of quilting fabric, most from the mid 1990s. There was Moda, Michael Miller, Timeless Treasures to name a few. Most were 2-3 yard cuts. They were all marked as $2 per yard!!! But.... that day was 50% off everything in the store! Thats' right! I paid $34 for what I bet is 40 to 50 yards of great fabric! Jealous???

Oh, and I went to the Kenny Chesney concert last Saturday. We were in the Sandbar! Jealous???

Hope all is well on the quilting front!

Until next time,

Mike.

Did you miss me?

I have not posted in over a month! I did not blog at all in June! Sew, housekeeping time! I hope I can keep your interest. I have to say though, I look at one hand and say "I really need to do a blog post." Then I look at the other hand and realize it's not sewing anything, so I go for the latter :)

 Let's do this with pictures.

First things first. Melinda C. won the thread from Above and Beyond Creative Sewing in the Sew Mama Sew Giveaway Day (back in May!!!). She already has the 11,000 yards of thread :)

Here we go:

"Lana in Pink" is finished. My Aunt has it now and she loves it!

Go here to see the photo album.

"Green & Hexy" is finished. Go here to see the entire album. 

This is what I have been working on during my train commute. SSSSSuper Hexy!!!

This is one block from a quilt I've been commissioned to create. I've been spending most of my time on this one lately.

The following pictures are not my finishes. They are from a show I went to:

I went to the New Jersey Quilters Guild show in Morristown (Garden State Quilters' Guild). These are all pictures from the show. The last one is very Hexy. It was my viewer's choice vote. English paper pieced and quilted by hand!!! The fabrics were fussy cut to make cool designs! And, it was her first time! She won a ribbon! Love the guild show too, because these people quilt my style!...like an amateur who is lookin professional!!! :)

Lastly, I was on an Alaskan cruise while I was out. Here you go:

 On the boat...

On a train on the side of a mountain in Skagway, AK. I stopped at a quilt shop in every port!!!!

Thanks for sticking with me during my hiatus!

I will link this post to WIP Wednesdays at Freshly Pieced and Link a Finish Friday at Richard and Tanya's Quilts.

Until next time,

Mike.

I'm Hexy and I know it!!!!

I have a big surprise coming up :) You are all gonna love it! In the meantime, here are some pics of what I have been up to:

Busy huh? Sew Mama Sew Giveaway Day is starting May 6th... you know I'm in it!!!!

Here are more pics for you:

And more:

See you soon!
Mike.