Not Afraid of Color: creatively speaking, this week, mostly sewing

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....