A mistake and lots of hexagons on a Slow Sunday...

Hello - how was your week?  Mine was nice... I wasn't as productive as the previous week but that is to be expected. I find that any really productive week is followed by one that is just meh, so they work out to be average over all. The weather has been hotter than I'd like for the end of September. I'm longing for Fall... cool mornings, caramel apples, turtleneck sweaters, hand knit socks ... and I may get my wish this upcoming week...  high temps in the upper 60's to mid 70's... I appreciate Mother Nature paying attention to me...LOL

I thought about getting out my Halloween decor but it hasn't gone past that stage... maybe tomorrow I'll get Nick to bring the bins up from the basement... I don't remember if there are 2 or 3... in the last year I have been trying to cut back on the decor bins and have reduced several seasons by an entire bin. So far I think Fall will meet that goal of one less bin... which is good as Fall is the largest decor group I have outside of Christmas...  hey, it's not my fault though... pumpkins just take up a lot of space!

So here is the last of my Fall decor... I'll change out the cross stitch and add some Halloween knickknacks for October when the spirit moves me... anyway at the very top is Bent Creek's All in a Row... 

Moving down...

Blackbird's Harvest of Friendship, Primrose Cottage Autumn Quaker and Barbara Ana's Autumn and the little pillow is a Lizzie Kate. 

Bottom section ...

Prairie Schooler No. 50,  Lizzie Kate's Autumn Alphabet, 3 little pillows from Prairie Schooler No. 164  and Calico Confectionary's Fall Most of All. 

Believe it or not this is a bit scaled back from my display last year... I try to make things a bit different year to year. I look back on the displays from years past and it has grown enormously since I moved into this house 11 years ago... time flys... and I have stitched a lot during that time.

As for crafty stuff, after finishing the WTNT Every Opening Flower sampler I decided to pick up the Christmas piece I'd like to have completed for this year... and I made some nice progress.  I'm doing the chart from the Blackbird Designs book, The Bells on Christmas Day... here's how it looks on the back cover of the book...

And here is my version...

I know ... I know... you're scratching your head... this isn't a BBD color palette... hold on,  I'll explain...

So the linen is a 32 ct dyed with Rit Apple Green and in real life it looks more like the other samplers it coordinates with ... I want this BBD piece to hang with  these Christmas samplers..

the Noel Sampler by With Thy Needle and Thread...

and the 12 Days of Christmas by Prairie Schooler... 

now I'm using all the called for flosses but I added in  Weeks Teal Frost and Oscar... I'm loving how the colors pop on this linen. 

I decided to do the entire outermost border first as it was an easy to remember repeat and it doesn't meet exactly at the corners but it did come out exactly as charted... and I was so proud of myself. I switched over to the easy inner border... just a line of single stitches... soooo easy... and yet I messed it up... I started over one stitch too many ... arrghh... and I didn't figure that out until I was this far in...

so ALL of that interior had to be ripped out... and I started again... I figure I would have been twice as far if I hadn't messed up... big sigh...oh well... I'm back on track now. 

And I felt like sewing this week... but not on any of the many many many many projects I already have started. Nope... I wanted to play with something new... and yet it isn't really new ... but it is a new start... again... I know you're scratching your head ... that's quite an itch...LOL... but let me explain. So it started with a reel I saw on IG which I can't find now, but the gal made a quilt with one jelly roll... no extra fabric and it looked like this...

I love this because I LOVE  LOVE LOVE hexagon quilts...in fact I've started two other hexagon quilts in the last year or so... 

this one...a Phillip Jacobs Stack n Whack...

and these 8.5" hexagons with my collection of vintage Debbie Mumm fabrics..

these are both quilts I will enjoy getting back out of their plastic bins... one of these days.

And to further prove my love for hexagon quilts which is heavily into Stack n Whack,  there is this one...  

and this one...

and this one...

and this one...

and this one... 

and this one that isn't a SnW but is a hexagon...and it is important to my current project...

So I started with an almost vintage... circa 2009 jelly roll... from my absolute FAVORITE collection by Momo... it is called Wonderland and it has great motifs like these little pincushions...

and scissors and  my favorite print is this floral...

I had a skirt with almost this exact floral print back in 1966... I wore it in my 8th grade class picture... I had a olive green poor boy mock turtleneck sweater and cream colored fishnet stockings... it was the epitome of style back then!! yes it was!!

I decided to use this jelly roll as I saw a little video last week and it talked about using the good china and wearing your best jewelry, TODAY... don't wait... because you don't know what tomorrow will bring ... and while it brings you joy it probably won't mean anything to those who have to clean it out of your house... a sobering thought...  

Anyway to get back on track... I've got all of the strips paired up and sewn to each other and I got some blocks made... 

not sure I like them all smushed together... and then it hit me... I could add triangle pieces like the last quilt pic and make this larger... and that's what I want to do!!

So I went to my stash and I have  5 yd piece of a small blue polka dot ... and I like how some of the fabrics like that blue scissors print will blend into the "star" point... so I got to wondering if I could make this even bigger... maybe big enough to fit my full size bed...hmm?? Since this fabric collection is 16 years old and it wasn't one of Moda's top designers I didn't hold out a lot of hope that I could find anymore... and if I did find it I expect it to be pricey... but God must want me to make this quilt larger because I found another jelly roll on eBay and they were only asking $43... which is on par with what jelly rolls are selling for now... it should arrive in the mail tomorrow. Now another jelly roll  might not be enough to make this a full size bed quilt... but looking back at that last quilt pic I could add "solid" hexagons too... oooohhh...this has so many possibilities... and to think I was just gonna make a throw sized quilt.....LOL

Now I have no business working on this quilt... I should get going on the Lizzy House Tiny Christmas quilt I want for this Christmas, but I've changed my mind about what pattern to use about a dozen times... right now I'm still thinking about the FQS freebie pattern FQ Cubes... it would show off nice chunks of the fabric and it is easy to put together...I need to take the plunge and just start cutting it out... maybe this week... maybe.

So far in the upcoming week there's a yearly dermatology appointment on Monday, Elliott on Tuesday, a work out session, a lunch with a family member and a dinner with a friend on Wednesday- that is gonna be a very busy day... hopefully Thursday and Friday will give me time to decorate and stitch and sew. 

I'll link up with Kathy's Quilts today...and  I'm hoping that Dan the handyman can come over... I have a couple of things for him to do ... hope your week ahead is a good one!

happy stitching-

carol fun