HEXAGONIA--FINISHED, et al

 

This Hexie project just

fits my cocktail table

in our living room...

;))))

This depression era 

cake plate was my Grand-mere's

I love how it looks on top of

my Hexagon topper...

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Today I had PT again...

with much better results...

in that my PT guy 

now gets what is going

on with my severe sciatic

problem...

I had a flare up after the previous

PT course of exercises--

not fun!!

I know it is a long process and

am hoping that this 

revised course of exercises

and massage and stim

will help...

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I have been doing bits and pieces of 

sewing on my 

Falling Leaves project:

Amazing what some 15 minute

sewing sessions can achieve...

I am still cutting solid strips with

Go!Baby cutter in darker colors...

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Meanwhile,

 we are hunkering down

for the hurricane that will 

be bearing down on us on Sunday.

We are in a hurricane warning area...

😱😥

  

The latest is that the eye of the storm

will pass right over us here on

the CT coast...

👀😵👀

We have extra gas for our generator

and extra water and food....

and are hoping for the best...

We are in an area full of towering older

trees...so if the winds are bad

we worry that the trees will

come down....

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If I am off line for a while,

we will most likely have lost

power....

hugs, Julierose

La Blageuse

(fingers-crossed-euse)

 

MY LITTLE EASTER BASKET, et al

 

Watching the Red Sox 

Game Day Opener

and hand 

Stitching 

my hexagons...

↧↧↧↧

I am enjoying working

on these --

prepping a few at a time...

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Trying to get my Mojo back...

 I am working on using up my pre-cuts:

Starting with my mini charms...

blue and white 

mini charms sewn into 

 seven strips here; 

and

Reds and whites

ready to be cut

apart and ironed out

into two-sies...

I sewed these 

onto white jelly 

roll strips...

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All these will go into my new 

Parts Department

for future use.  

Easy sewing to coax my Mojo into 

coming back...;)))

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I want to send good wishes 

to you all for both

Easter and

Passover.

;)))

Hugs, Julierose,

La Blageuse

(sewing-squares-euse)

HWXAGON PANSIES, SEA GLASS, & WONDER WOMEN

Here's my Pansies ready to bloom in the Spring table runner--I machine sewed the edges as my quilting foot was already set up on Helga and she cooperated! (LOL)
and here is the reverse side of Pansies with Summer Pinks:

I just fits my living room coffee table like this

Or even for our cocktails and hors d'oeuvres on a Summer's eve on our back deck:

AND--this baby is on my dining table being tied after some straight line quilting lines to hold it together...Sea Glass...

and remember me--Wonder Woman Woven Wall--WELL, she finally got me all tied!! Now if she can figure out my binding...hmmmm...
(My quilts sometimes talk to me lol)

and so, my Summer of finishes continues along, bit by little bit, I am getting them done.  Pulling myself along...why is it so hard to F I N I S H ?????

Hugs to you all, Julierose, La Blageuse Finisheuse

HEX-IN-A-BOX & MOM

They are jumping out of the box!












I am in hex-a-gonia once again..........................

THIRTY-SIX OF THESE.....

TWENTY-FOUR OF THESE (So far....)

JUST THREE OF THESE HYBRIDS ......AND............................

IN THE BOX--These few ready to be sewn.....(there's been a lot of playoff games on tv!!!LOL)

I pretty much only work these at night; hubster is intent on his DX-ing (shortwave radio stuff vocabulary!)
and we both are watching the playoff baseball games with great interest.  We are both avid Red Sox fans and want to see which team they will play Friday night!

As far as my "Monet's City" hexagon piece, I am looking through my stash (so un-organized am I) for
a similar landscape piece to surround these babies.

On a personal note: I went for my weekly visit to see Mom @ nursing home yesterday and found her needing a haircut; as she is unable to tell the resident visiting hairdresser just what she wants, I took her down and explained ---[she wants a weight line in the back (tapered through to the neckline), cut up over her ears in front and bangs.  She just always wore her hair very short and people don't believe that at 94 she still shuns any kind of "product" in her hair--comb n' go!]

  I felt it was a good visit--a lot of her abilities are waning, but her feistiness isn't one of them! (ROTFLOL) She is still a "pistol"--as the family always called her....I won't go into detail here, but it is very difficult to see your Mom fading....

And so, the hubster had vacuumed, dusted, done laundry by the time I came home---Phew!  What an absolute sweetheart.....I sat on our deck and looked at the view for quite a bit...thinking......

As always, Je suis: Julierose, La Blageuse

FINALLY --A FINISH FOR FRIDAY

TA-DAH:  I have sewn the last hexie on the reverse of my table runner...am glad I chose greens with the pansies...and here is the front/reverse:

This, will be a Springtime table topper I think...NOW to place them together with my accuquilt pre-cut little hexie batting pieces inside and machine embroider....

Also, here is my latest idea for putting my "Sea Glass" blocks together--what do you think???   I haven't ever done cornerstones.......so this will be a measuring/learning process....

And here is a peek of my new handwork project:  I was able to use my accuquilt GO! Baby to cut all the freezer papers and then just ironed them onto the shapes--easy-peasey...love that machine.....

The big hexies are all neutrals and all the fabrics (or most all) are modern (darkish maroons, pinks and some light violets).  A real departure for me...

I am feeling better---if this darn old cough would go away and my other ear would open up!!  I hope you all have a wonderful weekend...Quiltingly yours,
Julierose, La Blageuse

DIAMONDS ARE A GIRL'S BEST FRIEND....

Look at what came in the mail for me today: I am soooo excited!!!!

All the way from England!

 LOOK:  she sent a sample, too! If you want to see spectacular hexagon work look inside this book.  You can order it through www.patchworktemplates.com. (I ordered mine through Amazon UK)

I am re-inspired to do hexagons, Jackie, a big thanks is winging its way over the sea to you.

Here's her card...(sorry for the blurry shots). P.S.  She also makes gorgeous vests......

AND:  here are some of my old rosettes that I have made into diamonds:

They are all pretty scrappy and are made from really old Jinny Beyer fabric that I really loved:  I recall taking these to the beach and sewing on them while the kids romped in the ocean....ahhhh the smell of Coppertone and salt air......

The half-hexagons are from an old QNM (March '92, p. 16)  magazine by Aloyse Yorko and well worth looking up.  She actually made a Jinny Beyer "Inner City" pattern, but I adopted her method and used it to make shorter work of hexagons, as the color bands are "two-for-one".  These have been lying around in a box, recently uncovered when I re-did my sewing room.  So portable and such fun to do by hand.   

This is where I am today-- reading this book and ooh-ing and aah-ing over the directions and pix.  You can find Jaxcompany videos also by Jackie online. 

Au Revoir--enjoying this Springlike weather....

Julierose, La Blageuse