seriously, I must be just a little crazy...

And why is that you may ask? Well I have found myself another little obsession to fill all those empty hours I have (not!!).

I opened the pandora's box of hexagons and the sweet quilts that are the product of many, many hours of hand piecing hexies (as I now call them).

Seems safe enough...a few 4" square fabric scraps, a paper template, a few pins, a little basting here, a little whip stitch there.

 

I set up a little production line and slipped on a good DVD. No problems here, I tell you.

 

Look how pretty those little flowers are. And  just like that you are hooked and you spend hours making templates and basting fabric, just to get your next flower fix LOL

I'm supposed to be using scraps but then a few little fat quarter packs just find their way into my shopping basket after I accidentally walked into the fabric store.

It doesn't help that I can then spend more time visiting places like this and this and this and this and so many more, all from the comfort of my own home.

Let's just say that that little red lunch box is no longer of use and I am hunting out a bigger carry bag for on the go hexies, like at the boys soccer (note: Oscar once informed me that crocheting while watching his game made me look like I was at least 100 years old and not cool. I wonder if hexi piecing will do the same for my image LOL).

Now what does trouble me is all the people who have been where I am and warning me that I might just run out of steam and get sick of those damn hexies and 5 years later, still have a bag of colourful hexies going nowhere.

Well I say never...if I completed a "random" quilt and lived to tell the tale, I will not be beaten by a "Grandmothers Flower Garden". Ha!

Comments

[Katy]

:) it is a lovely thing to spend time doing. The flowers are addictive, aren't they?

[Angie]

They are definitely addicting! I've heard that the Grandmother's Flower Garden has quilt has sometimes been called the "ten-year quilt" because that's how long it takes to complete it. :) I think making the hexagons are perfect for long car rides, plane rides, etc.