In The Pink...

The pink round of the hexie quilt that is...this is the last full circle of hexies...

The next step is to fill the corners out - two flowers in each corner to square up and bordered all around with half flowers completes the hexie portion of the centre of the quilt...the full flowers are underway, a scrappy mix of pink and green fabrics, the hexies are covered ready for stitching...

I have to say I'm not looking forward to the step after finalising the hexies...lots and lots of 1" diamonds and 1" triangles papers to be covered to fill in all those gaps in between the flowers...oh and the decision made on just what is going to go in the very centre...the first round of flowers go around a lovely toile picture or similar and I can't settle on a definite...oh well it will be ages before that becomes a problem...first of all there will be all those diamonds and triangles to cover!

*Edit:  thank you for the get well wishes...people power won and the cold germs finally took notice and seem to have vacated the building... :)

Hope your weekend is stitchy...

Happy Stitching...

Friday Night Sew-In...the Extended Version...

Friday Night Sew-In for June and because the cold germs still haven't finished moving house (hurry up already!) I took the path of least resistance and kept on with the hexie garden building...

The night started out like this...

lots of hexie flower "seeds" and a small pile of "flower heads"

and now the flowers have grown to this...

less "seeds" and more "flower heads"...getting there...

I flagged at 10pm Friday night (thanks cold germs very much) so I have "cheated" just a bit and used the "itistillFridaynightsomewhereintheworldextrasew-intime" and now I'm going with "itsSaturdaysomewhereintheworldputtinguptheblogposttime" and got in some extra stitchy time in between work events yesterday.

Thanks to the fabulous Hostesses Heidi & Bobbi for hosting once again.

Sit & sew at the hall today wit Kilmore Quilters and Rosie is coming across today to play...yay! play day :)  The hexie flowers have indicated a reluctance to leave the house so better go find something to sew so I don't just do the sit part!

Hope your Sunday (or Saturday in the other hemisphere) is stitchy...

Happy Stitching...

When Life Gives You Cold Germs...Make...

Hexies!!!!  Yep, when the brain cells are fried from too many cold germs taking up residence and having a Huge Party despite repeated requests to move on, hexies are just the right amount of easy without thinking that can be coped with...so now my "Summer School hexie quilt whose name refuses to stay lodged in my brain" has progressed and I have two rounds of hexie flowers...

 From this... (the colours are right in this pic)

 

to...

this...

(dreadful lack of good lighting today, very washed out colours)

...the pink hexies sitting around the outer all by themselves aren't anti-social...they are posing...they will be the centres of the next round...all the remaining flowers will have this plain pink centre (and all those hexies are ready to roll)...

Having now figured out just what my plan was ... and writing it down a little better ... and saving a back up, which means I told a friend of mine who doesn't forget anything quilt related! ... I am ready to go with the next round of hexie flowers and also to prepare the diamonds and triangles that are the web holding it all together...

Happy stitching...

Desperately Seeking...

A quilty friend is hunting high and low for a copy of a pattern last seen in 2002...another friend put the call out on Squilters (Aust/NZ yahoo list) but no bites yet so I thought, hey, let's ask Blogland, after all you never do know...

Here is her plea...

Good afternoon everyone,

I am hoping somebody out there will be able to help me. I am in search for a pattern that is no longer in print, what I am keeping my fingers crossed for is that one of you wonderful, wonderful ladies, or your quilting friends will have a copy that I could buy from you, or at least pay for a copy to be taken. ( I know that it is not the  thing to do, to make copies, but this pattern is no longer available and as far as I can find out the company is no longer in business). The pattern is 'EYE CANDY' and was produced by CRAFTCO. (It was available very early on-2002! from Quiltsmith in NSW ).  I saw it in an old [Australian] Patchwork and Quilting magazine.

Thankyou all in anticipation.

If anyone has a copy, or knows of a copy, please email me at jindiscottage(at)gmail(dot)com and I can put you in touch with each other.

Happy stitching...