Archie The Wonder Dog

...I'm going to show off some hexies and some very cute photos of Archie! In my last post you saw the large group photo of 'new' hexies which have been made over the last few weeks couple of months - here are their close-ups (curlers and all!  Actually, the curlers are hard to spot in these photos, you'll have to look carefully!) The top right one looks much better in real life! And so does the one on the top left! Not sure about bottom left but I think hope it'll be ok... The dotty one makes me smile! Are you bored yet?!  Nearly done... Last one - well done for making it this far! Stained is at a standstill at the moment for two reasons.  The first one will come as no surprise...I'm worn out (again!) and the second is that I'm busy prepping more hexies (and have five more to do).  Each one takes about thirty minutes to prep so after doing three or four I don't have enough energy (or time!) to do any machin...

Click here if you want to sing along! * There once was an ugly hexy I'm so ugly! Who resembled a nuclear sign And the other hexies in so many words said Pshaw! **   Get out of our box! Pshaw!  Get out! Pshaw, pshaw! Get out! Pshaw, pshaw! You don't belong here. And she went with a sigh and a whimper and a sigh In a flurry of dangling threads. That poor little ugly hexy Went wandering round the sewing room But at every shelf she was met with disdain No, you can't be in our quilt No, you can't! Oh no, you can't! Oh no, you can't join us. And she went with a sigh and a whimper and a sigh And a very despondent air. All through Easter weekend she hid herself away (yes, it's taken me that long to get round to publishing this post!) Thinking of how to change, unpicking and re-stitching her seams. All through the weekend in her lonely sewing box 'Til a tessellation of hexies spied her there and very soon agreed You're...

A monster quilt, that is! If you want to find out more pop over to visit Liz to read my contribution to her series on monster (big) quilts - I hope you enjoy it!! Look into my eyes...you are going to click on the link to Liz's blog ... You will read the post and leave a lovely comment... You will send me a biscuit through the post... Maybe even two... Honestly, you'd think I never feed him!!

I'm just popping in to quickly post about the Fugly Fabric Party that's going on over at Lucy's blog Charm About You .  This time I've had quite a time coaxing my remaining fuglies out of the drawer (I thought I'd got rid of them all last time passed them onto a new home after the last fugly party but these two were cowering at the back of the drawer, half hidden in the shadows...not surprising, really!) and they've only agreed to come out and show themselves on the condition that they can hold hands and that nobody laughs.  So, if you laugh can you do it silently or into your hankie?  Thank you! Now, are you all prepared?  Get your hankies ready... Yup, they sure are fugly!! Now, in my defence the orange one (which is a FQ) was a bran tub 'prize' and the floral (which is a half metre of fugliness) was bought on-line and looked much better in the thumbnail!  I bought it when I was collecting fabrics for my hexies and I'd hoped it wou...

I think it's about time I shared photos of my one hundred and one hexies - here they are in a pretty stack, no reason for it I just fancied seeing how high it would be! 101 hexies make a stack about 4.5" high - not a lot to show for eight months of sewing! They took quite a while to arrange on the floor as I was trying not to get the same fabric or the same type of hexagon next to each other.  I'm not sure I managed it and I'm not sure it was worth the effort but this is what 101 hexies look like when they're all in the same room and playing nicely together. Sheila has a liquorice allsort (yum!) in her hexy quilt, I have a fried egg... Sorry for the awful photo - the weather was awful the day I did this (although not as awful as the days preceding it!) and the only way I can get a photo of all the hexies is to put them on the front room floor, stand on the fourth stair and lean over the bannister!!  Oh for a big design wall! Want to see a close-u...