sewing Saturday - Four projects

And this is why you keep a traveling sewing bag... I grabbed my old sewing kit for the car rides last weekend, and found my hexie star project! Yea! I completed these three on the two long car rides.

Please don't ask for the pattern, it's been too long and I have no idea where it is! I found it online.
I have baggies of backgrounds to baste on to papers, lots of papers cut out, star points already basted and waiting to baste, hexies basted to match up with stars and backgrounds. In general all the stages of making in the sewing kit.

This is a S L O W sewing project... keeping all the super skinny points and angles is not for the weak of heart but they are adorable. I don't mind a long term project, heh heh.

I finished the Christmas hexie table runner too.

  I appliqued the ring of flowers to a center with gold metallic YLI thread and a straight stitch

 the hexie edges are already turned/finished off

 All the quilting was done with gold metallic thread and it hardly shows at all!!!
I did a very time consuming and fiddly things in finishing this time... I layered batting and backing for the quilting, then trimmed the backing and turned all the edges under to meet the top hexies, then straight stitched twice.

the backing is cute and very old... given to me by a friend one year long ago

For the Rainbow Scrap challenge color of the month, purple, I stitched up 12 chandelier blocks for this month,.,,

they are pictured on my portable design wall because the real wall is covered in lattice blocks!

purple lattice blocks

I have blue blocks all prepared to sew from last month, but realized the color was light blue and most of my scraps cut were medium to dark. That's what I'll make, as they are ready to sew.

So, this week's sewing projects in one post. Some ongoing, some by hand, some done by hand sewing with machine finishes, some part of a bed quilt to be and some for the table.
I love quilting!

Linking to these parties:

can I get a whoop whoop Fridays 
Esther's blog Wednesdays 
Midweek makers wednesdays
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design wall Mondays at smallquiltsanddollquilts
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oh Scrap Sundays 
 slow stitching Sundays
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