Saturday, October 4, 2025

creatively speaking, this week, mostly sewing

 

I sewed on my big hexie quilt as you go blocks this week, and finished  the 24 I need to make a wall quilt with them. 

You basically stack backing, batting, hexie then quilt it. Next you fold the backing to the front one side at a time, fold twice to hide raw edges, clip in place, then do the next side, around. Now the block is quilted, edges finished and sewn into place 

and now I have 24 finished quilt blocks to hand sew together into a quilt. I love how they came out, love the different backing purples and know it will look like a patchwork when I turn the quilt over. 

I hand sewed a hexie section to put into the other scrappy halloween runner 
when I cut out the hexie shapes for those large QAYG blocks, I was left with some triangle shapes. Instead of throwing them away I sewed them to each other to make that top row. 

these rows are components not sewn to each other, just on the design wall

the next row is small rectangles sewn to each other
the bottom section is made of the small hexie EPP blocks 
I have another set of hexies ready to add to these to make an 18" row

I signed up for a painting workshop I hope to do tomorrow, at least a couple of them

I have put up some older quilts around the house... I do love this one....



the focus color at rainbow scrap challenge this month is brown.... 

I note things on my walks that are brown

we live in Colorado, most things are brown! 

this gingerbread cake is brown (recipe on last Thur post)

many shades of brown here, click on the image to see better


I want to try this easy painting trick... let me know if you try it! 

(hint it's done by painting a string first) 



https://youtube.com/shorts/UPe3PIgcSHU?si=d345rDX8OnJMB9Zv



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Thursday, October 2, 2025

I Like Thursday # 471

 

Well, here it is time for another list of likes.... starting with my Halloween mug for coffee. I like strong coffee with milk in the mornings, how about you? 

I liked seeing my favorite donkeys and horse again thisb week

Hello Beautiful! 
all three responded to my cooing and baby talk, and raced to the fence

What?!! no carrots again? (your pawrents said no, honey) 
we had a long visit then continued our walk into another neighborhood. It has a sort of town green in the center with these statues, I LOVE
it has a gazebo, playground, picnic tables, and more. Nice! 



this is some unusual horse chestnut tree with inedible nuts that look like lychee's
some trees are glowing in golden colors



here is another Halloween yard ornament seen along the walk

one perfect leaf, outstanding in it's field! sometimes just  one of something stands out as more beautiful
A yard full of leaves wouldn't showcase this the way I got to see it... is there a lesson for us there? Be brave enough to stand out? 
I saw this on youtube...
true that for me. I'd like to feel safe again. 

fine dining

I made bean quesadilla's for lunch this week, tortilla, refried beans, green onions, tomatoes, cheese heated in butter on the stove, topped with salsa and sour cream
also in fine dining
the base layer cake waiting for icing and whipped cream

Conversation starter this week: do you have a good gingerbread type recipe to share? or what is your favorite gingerbread style food to eat? 

first of all, we   tried this gingerbread cake recipe this week

https://tastesbetterfromscratch.com/gingerbread-cake/ 

I use fresh ginger (grated) and as always used just egg whites (I'm allergic to the yolks) but stayed to the recipe otherwise

with vanilla sauce plus whipped cream

 my favorite gingerbread was found in Historic Williamsburg. We used to go fairly often when we lived on the East coast. Our first stop was the bakery where they made fresh gingerbread cookie/cakes. We'd buy a dozen for the long weekend, sit on the cobblestone patio bench, the three of us, DH, Cole the poodle, and I. 



We would savor the first cookie of the weekend, warm from the oven, each of us with their own. 

It was usually late afternoon by then, time for a tea and cookie, breeze rustling leaves overhead, peaceful, people in period clothes calling to each other, the three of us content and anticipating good times to come. Cole just watched the squirrels coming ever closer for a crumb, people watching Cole. 


cole enjoyed shopping too

I miss everything about that time. 

Watching on Videos

still chuckling at this,   making friends (short)

https://youtube.com/shorts/cMMKH6xkk8Y?si=90J_icaiof9RTRjD

a girl's thoughts on love

https://youtube.com/shorts/bYvQyiiAxd4?si=LdV9bJZGNTHZkda3

I've had a migraine pretty much daily since last we met.... hope that stops soon, sorry this is short today

for now, please visit these fine folk to read about their gingerbread stories

https://wordweaverart.blogspot.com/



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Saturday, September 27, 2025

creatively speaking this week, light blue hexie spirals and halloween quilts X 2

 

welcome to this week's creativity round up. I want to be beading, painting and writing but my body won't cooperate. Luckily I could still sew, so, on with the show... 

Starting with the 10th Hexi spiral block this year, this time in light pale blues


I kind of like it! Surprised myself with that! I finished hand sewing the hexies while watching the premier of this season's Amazing Race (and sewed two in the middle wrong, having to rip out and resew

last time DH said he liked them turned a different way (I was too dazzled by all the spiraling to notice)

so here the block is turned 

Remember this Halloween 2025 start on the design wall?
not sewn together yet
I wondered how the scraps would look as small hexies in a row...

Ooooo I like them!
which led me to big hexies to quilt-as-you-go

batting and hexie cut same size, backing larger for each
and fussy cutting into my Halloween print stash

24 times should make a good sized wall quilt. Look at that fancy witch, the owl, that sassy cat! 

one finished block, sew 24 together and done! 

two finished quilted bound blocks  and 22 to go, then arrange and sew together, done! 

see the backing is larger to pull to the front and finish after quilting?
We put up Halloween decorations this week, and I began hanging halloween quilts from previous years... 

I'll show others later... glad to see the end of pale blue and green as focus colors at RSC this month
a "nature" shot seen on my walk this week, of pale green

with two gratuitous flamingos and a solar up light  
I like these fall grasses in Colorado. More of a pale yellowish green 
that's it for this week y'all
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Thursday, September 25, 2025

I like Thursday # 470 photos, Halloween decorations, dogs and conversation prompts

 

Welcome to this week's list of likes.... it must be shorter today as I am beset with physical pain.... 

Above is some wildflowers that just bloomed, with one of our Halloween decorations in the yard. 

I love flamingo, even flamingo ghost skeletons


on the walk this week... the mountains were smoke covered.... 
On this day we met a woman walking her daughter's dog... and chatted for a few minutes, a perfectly lovely conversation! 

Saw this vignette in someone's front yard.... pretty. Bet we'd like each other too

saw this cute pig 

this neighbor must like pigs, we saw several decorating their yard

I've been watching all this person's dog and cat interviews this week on youtube.... hilarious

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMlFpv0G7F8

Our conversation starter this week

1.Did you do the pledge of allegiance every morning and then sing a patriotic song? 

we did. We stood, hand on heart and said I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America

and to the republic for which it stands

one nation under God indivisible for liberty and justice for all

we were taught the Golden rule in Sunday School and from adults in our lives. 


2. what is your learning style, then and now? The main styles are auditory (hearing) rote or memorization, visual (maybe reading or seeing charts)  kinesthetic (that's me, learn by doing something like writing or making or touching) Are there other ways to learn I've forgotten? Is it still your style today?

When I taught quilt making skills, I tried to cover all styles in presentation to adults giving everyone a chance to find success. 

In college, if I took notes on paper I'd remember the info better. Now I watch (for example a dance move) then try it in order to remember it. Must be kinesthetic! 

I'm reading and watching TV. Enjoying this book on audio 



and this on E book


Survivor, and Golden bachelor started last night... whee!!! Along with "High Potential" dancing with the stars,  finale of Big Brother, and the return of Gilmore Girls my all time favorite show on Start TV 


I'm content. 

I am sewing a version of my spiral hexie block in light blues while watching TV this week

I'm sewing a Halloween quilt in the studio, well two actually. 



let me know if you did an I Like post I can include here, and please visit these folk to see what they liked this week. I'd love it if you answered today's question with a story about your childhood


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Saturday, September 20, 2025

Creatively speaking this week.... challenge to use light green/blue and moving into Halloween!

 

I enjoy working in colors of the season so I pulled out the bag of halloween fabric scraps and played!

it's always messy in the beginning, and I love seeing scraps laid out in piles according to size... 
Now what? I think
I get to know the prints, think of what I can make, I start sewing littles to littles

I get lost in the "scrap puzzle" as I think of it

looking so closely at it is one thing, but it will be viewed from more of a distance so I try to get some components up on the design wall. 
A lot of my halloween scraps are dark, so how to introduce some color? Some orange/lime/gold/ 

Improv geese are always good, color geese and dark halloween prints around them let them float
there are always blocks in the wings... and I think a few pinwheels or 4 patches would look good. Where did I put that candy block I wanted to try? 
 


I finished up this block for RSC each month, in light green to go with the light blue. 

I am not inspired nor jazzed by these colors but the hexie spiral in light pale blues might be more fun, hope to share that next week. 

Along the way I made a free form hexie scrap piece with pale color plus garden prints, I think I will applique this onto a landscape fabric for a tote or apron front...

It hasn't been pressed yet, and I can't seem to leave it alone, what if I add another blue one here???
The ones that look orange here are actually golden yellows, the pale green batiks seem to wash away
anyway it was fun to make, and I never applique hexie forms so that will be different

I like this pattern but it's hard to find the actual pattern to print out online...
and around the neighborhood, pale or light blue and greens are as uninspiring to me in real life as in the scrap challenge to use them in fabric


I chose this view for the smoky way the mountains look this week, and the smoky pale blue of the sky


I've moved on to wanting Autumn colors... 
the rocks have a lot of colors if you look closely but each color is very pale.... I guess I like a more saturated color palette most of the time. 
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