Friday favourites...

Musky pinks with a little soft yellow, green, blue and grey.

1. DQS9 top nearly done, 2. peek a boo, 3. 98.365 (testing!testing!!!!), 4. DQS9 Quilt Top, 5. mini quilt., 6. My row block 4

Click the links to visit the lovely quilters.

My creative space...

Lately, it's been hexies, hexies, hexies.

Ok, so there has been some other sewing too but the photos suck. Do you ever go through bad photo patches? It's like bad hair, all of a sudden nothing works and you can't leave the house/ upload your photos. So, hexies it is...

These are half-inchers that I made using the fabric glue basting method (tutorial coming soon). This method isn't quite as portable as sewing them as you really need a surface to press down the edges but I still like to keep my little kit handy.

Visit some other Creative Spaces over at Kootoyo.

pink stash...

I love pinks. I tried to resist them for years but now I've given in and I think around 80% of my stash is pink. These are some Denyse Schmidt, my only piece of Bari J, some Japanese Sevenberry...

and some Munki Munki kitties.

I'm soo happy to finally have the kitties and have already cut into this piece for a little project I'll share later.

Friday favourites

1. DQS9 coming along, 2. block for sarah, 3. DQS9 top, 4. Pastel ceramics, 5. 3x6 Bee 3rd Quarter Beehive 8 neetermo, 6. Bow tie quilt, 7. Nora Barlow, 8. Nicey Jane hexies

Why should all that yummy eye candy languish away in our flickr faves? Dust them off and bring them out into the light I say. I'm loving delicate colours, gorgeously pieced blocks (hexies with borders, blocks with ruffles!) and circular bowties. Click the links to visit the talented sewists/photographers.

Stash & swap

Stash
Some recent purchases ~ spots ~ most from the never ending scrap bag I bought from One Flew Over, and the Kei from Badskirt.





And these two pieces of Saffron Craig, also from the scrap bag. I have to admit to shrieking a little bit when I saw these in the pile!




These are my two very favourite Saffron Craig prints and these are very decently sized scraps. I'm a lucky girl.




Swap
This little package made its way over the Tasman this week. It's my swap goodies from Cat for the Handsome Hexies Swap. Cat and I have been doing some mutual hexie admiration across the blogosphere so it was really sweet to get these from her.




I especially love the Matryoshkis! So gorgeous.





Thanks again Cat! I'm really looking forward to the next round of this one, it's been so much fun.

Tonka on a Tuesday

My friend EJ came by to photograph some sewing work & fabrics for me & snapped this shot of one of our cats. It's such an amazing shot, very much like a portrait of a person (hmm). Her nickname is Tonka because she stomps along so loudly it's like Godzilla smashing all of the Tonka trucks. She doesn't usually look this cranky ~ she's just been moved off of the fabric!



I've had some really cool dreams about Tonks ~ in one she was riding in my bicycle basket, jumping in and out at whim even though I was riding pretty fast. In another she won the 'Best Cat in the Whole Wide World' title ~ says it all really.

Sunday Stash

Some Nest and Joel Dewberry from Pink Chalk Fabrics ...




and some Japanese prints, the bottom two are from Badskirt.


I'm slowly being won over by the world of cute Japanese fabric and couldn't resist all of the details in the piggy fabric - just perfect for little hexes.

Stitching up a hexie storm

I've finished my hexies and have packed them all up to go off in today's post. I really hope my partner likes them. I wasn't able to use my favourite colours (!) which were in my partner's dislikes so I raided my stash for any little scrap which might fit into their likes.


A few little extras snuck their way in.

The completed stack.


It's been a fun swap and I've really enjoyed the hand sewing. I sat out in the sun last week during my lunch breaks at work & whipped up a few of these, very relaxing.
I've ordered more pre-cut papers from Patchwork with Busyfingers and will be trying my hand at some other shapes when they arrive. I went all out & bought some acrylic templates as well to make fussy cutting easier.