Monday Morning Star Count 2014/8

What a busy week!  I took some time with my granddaughter, Gracie, to teach her basting hexagons.  Gracie was born at 31 weeks, has a form of autism,  and struggles with her small motor skills.  She actually used the needle :) without my help, and stayed focused long enough to complete 7 - 1" hexies.When she first started she poked her finger and cried.  I gave her a big hug...

Monday Morning Star Count 2014/7

I did not get as much stitching completed on putting the sections together as I had hoped.  I did however add one more section and completed 3 more flowers for the quilt.  I am still getting used to handling the larger size of the quilt section and it actually took me an hour to add one section.  I am sure as I go I will be able to figure out how big to keep the sections so they are...

Monday Morning Star Count - Week #6

Well...at least I made progress this week!  I finished 4 hexie flowers.And I now have 16 flowers, 19 flower sections with the added background hexies, and it looks like I should start putting some sections together!My hexie box is getting low :(, but that means I have made a lot of progress!!This week my focus is to make more sections and start stitching them together.  I can't wait to see...

MM Star Count - Week 5

It was a busy week and I was distracted by other projects :), but I still managed to complete 4 more flowers.One of the reasons I was distracted was that I just received Mickey Depre's latest book - Pieced Hexies Deux.  And of course I needed to try one of the new designs!  The one I tried is called "Echo" and thing I find so amazing about these is that just by spinning/rearranging the hexies,...

Just a little distraction....

I have so many projects in progress and my goal is to wrap up many by April.  However, I just decided to start a new one!  I have a quilt frame with a BabyLock Jane for quilting my projects.  I have really wanted to learn to free motion quilt on my domestic home sewing machine.Well...I wasn't feeling so well yesterday, so I spent time laying around and surfing the web and I came across...