RAINY MOTHER'S DAY SEWING...

Slow sewing while watching Red Sox waiting for our steaks to grill...
My family celebration was yesterday up at my son's home....
I turned 76 today...now officially over 3/4's of a century young!! :)))

go and visit Kathy on her :
                              Slow Sunday Stitching link up and 
see how many of us sewist Moms are doing our handworks...

hugs, Julierose, La Blageuse (visiting Hexagonia again-euse)
linking with Em's Scrapbag quilts party....

TURNING THE CORNER IN MONET'S CITY

I have finally set out my Water Lilies for Monet's City...I still am shuffling and re-shuffling rosettes and partial rosettes and strips and singles Ack!!  

Here is a closeup shot  of of the dark side water lilies

If you look closely you can see that the rosettes nest and therefore (because I had no graphed out plan--NOTE to SELF: make a plan!!) there are full, and partial ones...with places to be
filled in.  
And so.........

I have resorted to taking closeup pictures with my phone of each one--pulling it out a bit and pinning it so that I can remember how it goes together to fit in!!  

and here are the lilies in the sunlight

they all have the script centers.....

As far as the other two sides--I am still pondering (hahaha no pun there--"pond"ing!!) 
what to do--I'd like to add some kind of tree lines..we shall see...

I sewed three darkside rosette forms this afternoon and then my poor brain refused to do anymore (that is ahem! after unsewing a few mistakes:  those frogs in the pond make that sound you know only too well ,  lol: rip-it, rip-it, rip-it!!) .  

So that's where I am wandering around Monet's City while outside we are having our first taste of snow, sleet, rain etc.  

P.S.  I got my little 1/2" hexagon  paper pieces in the mail today for my next project--
oh, well thought readers--YES  I am a "hex-a-maniac" for sure" .

 (NOTE: The hexies in  my MC measure 1" per side--so these new ones are teeny- tiny, itsy bitsy...)

hugs to you all, stay warm and enjoy your weekend sewing, 
Julierose, La Blageuse in Hexagonia

SUNDAY IN HEXAGONIA

Here's where I was this afternoon-- IN HEXAGONIA HEAVEN--using my new GO!BABY die for cutting fabric AND paper hexagons.  I lost count as to just how many I cut in 45 minutes.  

This die is amazing--(I am not in the pay of Accuquilt either--just sayin') ; it cuts SIX layers of fabric on the lower four shapes --so 24 in only ONE pass AND TWO layers of paper or cardboard in that same pass yielding 8 paper backings.  

I used 8.5" x 11" freezer paper and folded it in quarters to get 4 sets of double papers.

I am in love with this die!  No threads to snip off--I did a generous accordion fold of 6" fabric to cover the hexagons.  

and now I have all of these perfectly cut hexies to add to my Monet's City outskirts--
the fabric (tan/black )--is french script and the blues are some batiks and some hand dyes representing the waterways where those gorgeous waterlilies he painted grew.  

See how you get that perfect 1/4" (YAYA!!) allowance to fold over and either baste or use the spray starch method..I have always basted them...but may try that spray starch on a few. 

This is how I attach the freezer papers--easy peasy...

(Excuse my old ironing board cover )--I line them up and just iron over 5-6 at a time....

then I can sit and watch tv with my sweetie at night and baste away...

I haven't decided how to add these as yet to my main piece--but will lay them out this week..

There is no way with my hand/wrist and shoulder problems I could have C U T  OUT  all these pieces.  So, for me, the cost of the die is really worth every penny.  

And so another gray day passes by us and soon we will be in Mid-November....hugs to you all--

from 
Julierose, La Blageuse P.S.  DH says"Someday I will hear a muffled sound from your sewing room and I will have to come in and rescue you from those stacks of hexagons that have taken over!!  Hahaha....

Mute Monday: HEXAGONIA EDITION

(SIGH)   :-)

Julierose, La Blageuse (merci, mon mari)

STILL HIKING IN "HEX-A-GONIA (HOUF-DAH)

Sewing the last row together--one long row takes 1 1/2 hours  (5 rows later.....sigh) --I think that after this sojourn into "Hexagonia", I will try something else for a while (ya think???):

Here is what's happenin' around my house while I stitch and b****--It is soooo warm, soooo early:

I am "daffy" myself--

I set my goal this week to FINISH the whole interior of my "Diamonds Are Forever" tabletopper (glad I didn't go for a bed-sized quilt (oh my), and am stitching away today....between little stitches and pulling out papers....my "get up and go" has "gotten up and gone"....Have a wonderful weekend....Julierose, La Blageuse