Here is another hexi flower finished and one started for my scrappy hexagon quilt...no hurry on this one...I was able to do the one flower late one night while gone and start another one...now that I am home I hope to do more of these each week...if not that is ok too as this is a slow work in progress to use up some scraps...I will also be posting this on my other blog here, which is just for hexies...keep those needles stitching...
Wendy
Originally this was going to be a full size afghan for me...enter my sweet granddaughter Jazmine....monkey, my baby needs a blankie....ooooh that's pretty monkey (thats what she calls me):)...every single time she came to visit she would look in the basket and say this...what's a gran to do...make up four blocks into a dolls blankie of course...now Jazmine's baby is nice and toasty...I added two rows of double crochet after I joined the blocks...a smaller project than when I first started, but one that has given much happiness to the receiver of the blankie...grandchildren are such a blessing in ones life...Keep those needles stitching.
Wendy
I am back from my blog absence of nearly two weeks...nothing wrong, I just went out of town to speak at a conference in TX....no time for much stitching while away...although I did complete one hexi flower for the week I was gone and basted many of the bigger ones...before I left on the trip I made this lovely bit of scrim for a small wall hanging...a closeup...
a closer look at the crocheted edging....
A final look at the mini wall hanging...
I really love how this one turned out...it has lace bits and pieces sandwiched between two layers of scrim....this was so much fun to work on....keep those needles stitching!
Wendy
I am trying to decide on which flower to use on this shabby chic heart pocket that I am making...I cannot seem to decide which one I want to use...what do you think....the top and bottom pic is large silk flowers and the middle roses are some I made using scrim...
Wendy
This is the flower I made for this weeks "One Flower Wednesday"... in time there will be enough of these for a quilt made entirely from scraps..keep those needles busy!
Wendy
I have stitched more petals to paper in the last few days...the pile is growing...I will stitch all petals before I start putting the flowers together...I have also started a new blog just for the hexi projects that I will be making...you can go here to check it out...eventually all my posts about the hexi projects will only be posted on this blog...hope to see you there...
Wendy
Blogging friends are so awesome...over the years that I have had my blog I have met some wonderful people who love the same things I do...one such friend is Gina, who I met through a swap where we were partnered together...Gina and I both love peacocks, old linens and needlework...a few weeks ago Gina came into a large supply of linens and crocheted doilies...she shared them with some of her readers...I was one of the lucky bloggy friend who received some of them...they arrived here on yesterday...now to decide what these will become in the future...thank you so much Gina for your thoughtful gift of linens...I will treasure each and everyone of them and will use them in my creative process...
Wendy
This is what I worked on last night...added to my scrim of course.... I have added two more sections and started on the stitching...more time will be spent on this over the next few days...originally I was going to work on my hexi quilt, but this just grabbed me instead and once I started working on it I kept going....progress is good...:)
Wendy
Tonight is the monthly Friday Night With Friends hosted by Cheryl...be sure to join in and then come back and post about what you worked on during the sew in...I have plenty to work on and plan to start fairly early this evening...You can go here to join in with the rest of us if you like...see there...
Wendy
I have pulled out this wip to start on again...I am trying to decrease my wip basket and this one is the next one that needs finishing...these are big hexies so I hope it will come together quickly...I am linking up here and here...keep those needles busy...
Wendy
I have been playing with scrim again...I am really enjoying the process
of making the plain scrim into a thing of beauty by adding stitch....all
these french knots, buttonhole bar, bullions, mirrors, butterflies,
buttonhole stitch, seed stitch....makes this cloth so pretty to just
gaze at....I have two more sections ready to be added to my other pieces...I hope you don't tire of seeing the scrim on here as it will be an ongoing work in progress until the cloth tells me it is finished...then I will start another in a different color...sigh....so many ideas running through my mind about this scrim!
Wendy
I was in a mini quilt swap hosted by Cheryl for a Mother's Day Mini...my swap partner was Carin and she lives in Sweden...she sent me the most lovely little mini ever...I also made a mini for her and she has finally received it...it took a bit longer to get to her than we anticipated...I tracked it to customs here and I guess it sat there for a while before moving on...now it is finally in its new home so I can now post about them...I absolutely love the one Carin made for me....so precious! Thank you Carin for such a lovely little quilt to add to my mini quilt wall...Below is the one I made for Carin...she emailed to say she loves it as well and is now hanging in her kitchen...I wish I had more of this fabric as I love how this one turned out...I used raw edge applique for all the little flowers and then quilted them down...
I have enough of the flowers to make a small mug rug with and will be doing so shortly...keep those needles flying...
Wendy
Little wall hanging I made for the stitch-along....well I kept looking at it and it just did nothing for me...I did not like it at all...way too plain for me...so it has been on my design wall since I made it while ideas were forming and being discarded in my mind....finally this is what I chose to do to liven it up a bit....now I can call this truly finished...I can't wait until I decorate for Christmas to hang this little beauty...oh so very happy with it now!
Wendy
As it is heating up here in the south I had to put aside my big afghan as I was way too hot when working on it...I will pick it up again in the fall when things cool down again...in the meantime I wanted a project that I could crochet, but not be overheated when working on it...I decided on the old standby of granny squares...with wonderfully bright colors no less...I have these three blocks finished and have nine more centers prepared to crochet...I can do one block at a time and not be waited down in this heat with the whole blanket...and they take very little time to complete.
Wendy
This little peach tree is loaded with peaches...I can hardly wait to harvest these for peach cobbler and hopefully some jam as well..
Nothing crafty today as it is a holiday here in the states...so I decided on a nature post today...lovely roses and a loaded peach tree...enjoy...this rose bush is a wild rose and is running up several trees...I wish I had taken pics before all the storms last week...but there is still blooms up in the high branches of the trees...these trees are at least 20 to 30 feet high and the roses are all through the branches...smells heavenly as well...this is my moms and we really need to do some type of arbor for these roses...they are soft yellow blooms with pink interiors...
the rose bush itself is so big in areas...we counted five trees wrapped up with this lovely rose bush...
these are some of my Tyler TX roses that my sweet husband brought back for me on one of his trips back to TX...they are really doing well this year...again the winds and rain almost took all the petals away...these will bloom all summer though...and they smell lovely as well...
big large petals...and on these they are doubled...first year that has ever happened with these...
Hope you are having a wonderful day, I know I am surrounded by these beautiful roses...
I am still playing with the scrim...I am still in love with this technique and am sure I will never tire of it...these are the newest pieces in the works...I am loving all those shiny bits of organza that is peeking through...
closeup of the year this piece was made...I may do some wording on the next couple of pieces that I make so that I can incorporate them as well...
Both pieces together before being damp stretched....
so easy and quick...this took no time at all to make...now to embellish and titivate these two before joining them to my other pieces that are waiting patiently for me to add to them...sigh...I will never tire of looking at these or touching them...for all the stitching on them they are fragile and lovely...
this is a long weekend for us as we are celebrating Memorial Day here in the US...on that note...
"Thank you to all those who have served our country in the military, including my beloved dad who served in the Navy...thank you for putting your lives on the line on a daily basis...I for one appreciate all that you sacrifice for our freedom...May you be blessed for all that you do for your country..."
I am so in love with this technique....and I have been having such fun playing with my threads, bits and lace....
cutting it up and putting it back together in a different way...
so many ideas running through my mind....I had to start writing them down in my EEC journal to keep a record of my thoughts on this technique...and of course now that I have written in the journal I will need samples to go next to my thoughts on the subject....
which means more scrim play in the future just for the samples that I will need...:)
the bit above is one of my favorites...it looks like it has been quilted with all the puckering....so wonderful...sigh...
With this technique there is no limit to the creativity that is sparked by the project...which leads to more titivation's...and further exploration of the cloth...
sigh...such wonderful thread play going on here...french knots, bullion knots, more french knots...
loving how these little french knots speak to my heart....
loving the side view here...
A group of lovely knots and wrapped thread beckoning to me once again to pick up needle and thread...
I am now starting the most fun part of this piece...the titivations and adding of bing! A closeup of some bullion knots in a row...some thread wrapping, french knots and tiny yoyo's...
I am having so much fun with the scrim lace...I see much more of this in my future. Keep those needles and thread moving!
Wendy
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