Piece Yourself Together Tuesday in California

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This post finds me in California. We're visiting our daughter and family for two weeks. I haven't had a lot of sewing time, what with football games and other fun times, but I did sew my hexies before we came to California so I do have something for the Linky Party at Anthea's "Piece Yourself Together."

As usual, I'm trying to make the Australian deadline. Those time changes always have me playing "catch-up" with this linky. But anyway, here's what I have to show you today:

I also finished flowers for my swap partner on the "Inchy Hexagon Flower Swap." She requested blue flowers with yellow centers. I'm pleased with the results and hope she will be too. That color combination should make a beautiful quilt when finished.

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Piecing Myself Together and Pincushion Parade

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Once again its Anthea's "Piece Yourself Together" time. Anthea provides a linky at "Hibiscus Stitches" for us to show off our hexie creations.

What I started doing lately is sewing stepping stones around my little 1/2-inch hexie flowers and then sewing them together. Here's what I have so far.

That's as far as I've gotten since I've been making pincushions (well I've made one pincushion...well, I've finished a UFO pincushion I've had for a long time.) Anyway, I finished the pincushion shown in the previous post, for my sister, Ida, who blogs at "MySister Made Me Do It," and is hosting the "Perfectly Pleasing Pincushion Parade." Ida is providing a linky for us all to share our favourite pincushions.

Not only that, BUT there are lots of prizes! Check out her blog for all the details and to link-up. Wednesday is the last day to link-up. Good luck. Can't wait to see your pretty pincushions.

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Pincushion Completed for the Perfectly Pleasing Pincushion Parade

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So, I'm sure you've heard that my sister Ida, who blogs at "MySister Made Me Do It," is hosting the "Perfectly Pleasing Pincushion Parade."

In doing so, Ida has created a number of new pincushions to give to you and to ME! She surprised me with 2 more beautiful and functional pincushions. Here's the perfect pincushion nestled in a sewing kit and perfect to drop into my purse and take with me wherever I go along with my hexies.

Ida is so creative. She made this darling sewing kit from an eyeglass case. And then she continued and made another take-along pincushion which is flat with the pins stuck in the sides. It's hard to describe but just look! It's another perfect pincushion to take with me.

 

So, with all this pincushion-making I decided to dig out a pincushion UFO I've had for a long time. It's made of wool pieces that I sewed together and embroidered on one of our road trips and never finished. Well, here it is, all finally done!

This is for Ida. It's not as awesome as her beautiful creations but maybe she'll like it.

Ida is providing a linky for us all to share our favourite pincushions. Not only that, BUT there are lots of prizes! Check out her blog for all the details and to link up.

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Ida is providing a linky for us all to share our favourite pincushions. Not only that, BUT there are lots of prizes! Check out her blog for all the details and to link-up.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Pincushion Parade and Prizes

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Today I have pincushions to show. This all came about because my sister Ida, who blogs at "MySister Made Me Do It," is hosting the "Perfectly Pleasing Pincushion Parade." Ida is providing a linky for us all to share our favourite pincushions. Not only that, BUT there are lots of prizes! Check out her blog for all the details and to link-up.

Meanwhile, I'll show you my pincushions. I'm disqualifying myself (before Ida does) since, well, you know, it doesn't seem right if I were to win...

PLUS, Ida has already given me so many gorgeous pincushions, such as this one which I've photographed on it's side so you can see it's a pincushion on a frame. It stands up like a regular picture frame and is ideal for sitting on my end table while I do some hand-sewing as I watch television.

And then there are these 3 which are perfect, each in it's own way and also made for me by Ida:

They all look good enough to eat but I especially like the one in the middle because the pincushion top lifts up and reveals a perfect little container for my thread clippings (hilachas).

But my all-time favorite made by Ida is this one:

It's a little jar where I keep my unique buttons. The pincushion part has fabric with pictures of Sunbonnet Sue and is just precious.

Last, here are some pincushions I've made.

Most of you know how I enjoy sewing with hexie shapes. The ball is made of hexies and pentagons. It took me a while to learn that a ball can't be made entirely of hexies. I had to actually dig up my son's old soccer ball to see the shapes it was made from. The pincushion to the right of the ball is made entirelly of hexie shapes. I found the pattern online for the cathedral window pincushion and the little bitty one is one I use in my travel sewing kit. Which, by the way, I would love to have the pincushion kit Ida made from the eyeglass holder. It looks perfect for travel but how could I possibly ask Ida for another pincushion after she's already made so many for me?

I'd love to see some of your pincushions and if you'd like to be part of the fun, just pop over HERE for all the details & to link up. There are even great prizes to win. Join in or just take a look at the other pin cushions in the parade.

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Fires and Hexie Flowers

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The above words are quite true for us. There was a big fire in the area around our ranch a week ago.

We weren't there but our neighbors were. They kept us up-to-date on the fire. It came within a mile of their ranch and they're about a mile from us. In total, 16,000 acres were burned, including 4 structures which "they" said were not permanent homes. That still doesn't sound good since our ranch house is not our permanent home either. Please add the people who lost property to your prayers. The fire is now out and no longer a danger.

 

On to happier topics, here are a few hexie flowers I sewed on our trip to the ranch. (We're here now and all is well on our property.)

I'm linking up to Anthea's "Piece Yourself Together." Check this out to see what others are doing with their hexies.

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Hexies With Anthea

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Hello All! I'm trying to make the Linky Party at Anthea's "Piece Yourself Together." I didn't get to the linky on time the last time. It seems like Australia is a day ahead of Texas....

So saying, here are some of my usual 1/2-inch hexie flowers, my lifetime project:

I also found an interesting project at the "sewcanshe" blog.

I actually made 6 potholders but my sister, Ida, dropped by and I gave her one. The edges look kind of crooked in the photo but they are a product of the photographer, not the seamstress. These were a fast project and actually worked best when I followed the instructions. I sewed a binding on the blue one and that was somewhat tedious. Then I decided to read the instructions and see how the tutorial said to do it. What was done in the tutorial was sewing around the lining and front all around the edges, leaving an opening for turning etc and then quilting. Much easier.

Now I'm off to see if I make the linky this time so...

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Hexies in My Real Life

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I'm back in my "Real Life" in El Paso, Texas now, back from the beach and a marvelous vacation in Virginia, USA. I'm madly typing my blog post trying to make the last day of Anthea's "Piece Yourself Together" linky at "Hibiscus Stitches."

Here are my half-inch hexie flowers:

When I got back to El Paso, I also had these beautiful flowers waiting for me in my mailbox.

These gorgeous flowers are from my swap partner in the "Inchy Hexagon Flower Swap." They came from Karyli in Idaho, USA. Thanks so much. They're perfect!

Off to try to make the linky deadline so ...

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