One Flower Wednesday and Hexie Pincushion

Encouraging Words of the Day:

As soon as I pray, you answer me; you encourage me by giving me strength. ~ Psalm 138:8, NLT

"One-Flower Wednesday" today and you won't believe the flower I made.

"Big deal," you say? Actually, it's a small deal. I'm in a Hexie Bee and this month my hive mate asked for a 1/4-inch hexie. I could not believe it! It was actually harder to sew than the larger flowers because it's so hard to hang on to those little-bitty pieces. I took a photo to show you the comparison. The largest is a 1-inch hexie flower, the middle one is 1/2-inch, and on the right is the little 1/4-incher.

On another topic; I saw a pattern for a cute pincushion made of hexies. It seemed like a good idea so I prepared several hexies and started sewing them together. It looked easy enough so who even needs to read the instructions, right? Just sew the hexies togehter into a ball. I can do that. Wrong! I finally had to go find my son's soccer ball Would you believe that they are actually made of hexagons AND pentagons? Then I looked at the instructions again. Sure enough. Well, then I made some pentagons too and, surprise, surprise. It worked.

Notice the pink pentagon shape in the middle of the hexie flower.

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Design Wall Monday Flower Ball

Encouraging Words of the Day:

Your promise revives me; it comforts me in all my troubles. ~ Psalm 119:50, NLT

It's Monday again and my design wall is coming long beautifully. We've been away from home for two weeks and my mailbox was full of beautiful hexie flowers for my "Flower Ball." These hexie flowers were made for me by my fellow members of "Get Your Hex On Bee #3. Here's what it looks like now. I just need one more flower to arrive.

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Now I need to sew these beautiful flowers together and I can hardly wait to get started. First I need to finish going through the boring part of the mail (bills, flyers, junk mail etc.) so for now...

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Pile of Potholders and My Jane M8 and M9

Encouraging Words of the Day:

Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. ~Psalm 37:4 NIV

I've been sewing like crazy making potholders to use as some of my Christmas gifts. I needed to learn to use my new embroidery machine so I made all sorts of centers for the potholders and now I've finished up most of them. I don't even know how many I made but here is a pile of them.

Counted them. There are 14 of them. Glad that's done.

Then I worked on "My Jane" for a while. Here are M-8 and M-9.

 M-8 went together easily via paper-piecing BUT,

 M-9 came out rather crooked, ok really crooked. It was also paper-pieced but those corners were horrible to make come out even. As you can see, mine are rather skewed. M-8 looks good and was done quickly. I worked on M-9 forever and it still looks strange. I will learn to love it because that's as good as it's getting.

We're leaving our beautiful Texas Hill Country ranch tomorrow. It's been a wonderful visit but we're headed back to west Texas tomorrow. I need to go get my prep work done so I can sew for the 6-hours it takes us to get back to El Paso.

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One Flower Wednesday

Encouraging Words of the Day:

But those who trust in the Lord will find new strength. They will soar high on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not faint. ~ Isaiah 40:31, NLT

Yes, it's "One Flower Wednesday" and I'm barely checking in at the last minute. We've had family visiting since Friday and they left today so now I'm rushing to find two little flowers I made on our trip out to the ranch. I just finished taking their photo and here they are:

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Short post. We enjoyed our family tremendously. My brother-in-law, sister-in-law, and nephew are so funny, entertaining, and fun to have around but now they're gone and I'm off to sew a little and have a glass of wine.

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Snakes Roaming About on One Flower Wednesday

Encouraging Words of the Day:

You know what I am going to say even before I say it, Lord. You go before me and follow me. You place your hand of blessing on my head. ~ Psalm 139:4-5, NLT

We're at our little ranch in the Texas Hill Country and enjoying the beautiful weather. It's been a dry spring so we don't have many wildflowers out. We did find this evil character out today though. My husband killed this 50-inch rattlesnake this morning.

It's "One-Flower Wednesday" and I have these flowers to show you. They're the parts of a block for the quilt-along I've joined. Here's what they look like...

and here's what they should look like when I finish sewing them together.

I also have these lovely flowers that I received from my partner in the "Inchy Hexagon Flower Swap." Dorrit sent me these from Denmark. Thanks so much, Dorrit. They're so lovely and I will enjoy sewing them into my "Flowers of the World GFG."

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Design Wall Monday

Encouraging Words of the Day:

Give all your worries and cares to God, for He cares about you.

~ 1 Peter 5:7, NLT

We spent all day yesterday traveling to our little ranch in the Texas Hill Country. I sewed on my hexies but I'm waiting until One-Flower Wednesday to show those to you. Instead, I'm showing you what's on my design wall at the ranch. Yes, I have a design wall with UFOs hanging on it too. I'm determined to finish at least one of them while we're here this time. One is a mini quilt depicting the 12 months of the year. That's almost finished. It needs the 3 Bs - borders, backing and binding. The other is a tablecloth showing different items found in and around our ranch house; oak trees, ATVs, hogs, deer, and wildflowers. This is the center part of a future tablecloth or tabletopper.

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One Flower Wednesday and My Jane F10 and H11

Encouraging Words of the Day:

May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing to you, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer. ~ Psalm 19:14, NLT

Once again we find ourselves at "One-Flower Wednesday." The flowers I'm showing you today have a different look since I'm making them for a block in a quilt-along I've joined. It's supposed to end up looking kind of like a chevron when they're finally sewn together. Anyway...

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Other than that, I've been preparing for some hand-sewing since we'll be going to the Texas Hill Country on the weekend. I've cut out all the hexie shapes to complete the chevron and also the shapes for a couple of hexathons I hope to finish. There's also a crochet project I've been working on that I can take and then...there's always a lot of hand-sewing I can do. I'm thinking of starting a Baltimore Album Quilt. Somebody please talk me out of this since I want to complete "My Jane" some day. Oh, which reminds me, here are a couple of "My Jane" blocks that are finished. They're both rather crooked but H-11 was the difficult one. Those little pointy pieces on the corners of both of them were "killers."

F-10

H-11

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