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Piecing tips from the art quilter! from Art and Quilting in Camden

First, hi everyone and welcome to new readers! I’ve actually been piecing…set-in circles no less! Above is the 74″ square top. Each block will finish at 12 1/2 inches. I used Latifah Safari’s 12″ Clammy to cut the circles, half circles and the corner quarter squares. Her instructions have you cut the outside from a single piece of cloth, but in addition to wanting to mix up the colors I felt that used too much yardage. I do have a nice stack of the background fabric “pumpkin seeds” from the leftovers to use in something, though ...

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Getting Hexie with It from Becca's Crazy Projects

Sometimes I have a few minutes to work on a hexie flower. That's it, that's the entire post. Someday I will finish this project. Someday.

Tools and supplies (affiliate links):

Fiskars Rotary Cutter

Fiskars Rotary Cutter replacement blades
Fiskars Self Healing Rotary Cutting Mat
BLACK+DECKER Classic Steam Iron
Grabbit Magnetic Pin Cushion

Fiskars Micro-Tip Scissors, 5 Inch

Fiskars X-Large Squeeze Punch, Hexagon - this thing turns junk mail into hexie papers!

Flexible Rubber Thimbles

Sewline Water-Soluble Fabric Glue Pen with Refill

added by Becca 10 months, 1 week ago. under 2023 , crazy , english paper piecing , epp , harm , hexagon , hexie , moda , modern , project , sew , superior threads , tool tip

Getting Hexie with It from Becca's Crazy Projects

I'm still working on my hexie flowers.

Each week I finish a few more.

Some weeks are more productive than others. I never thought this would be a quick project.

Tools and supplies (affiliate links):

Fiskars Rotary Cutter

Fiskars Rotary Cutter replacement blades
Fiskars Self Healing Rotary Cutting Mat
BLACK+DECKER Classic Steam Iron
Grabbit Magnetic Pin Cushion

Fiskars Micro-Tip Scissors, 5 Inch

Fiskars X-Large Squeeze Punch, Hexagon - this thing turns junk mail into hexie papers!

Flexible Rubber Thimbles

Sewline Water-Soluble Fabric Glue Pen with Refill

added by Becca 1 year, 3 months ago. under 2022 , charm , crazy , english paper piecing , epp , hexagon , hexie , moda , modern , project , sew , superior threads , tool tip

Getting Hexie with It from Becca's Crazy Projects

I finished up the basting of the rest of my little hexies a couple weeks ago.

Yesterday I stacked them up into planned flower sets.

Then I filled my hexie project bag with all those sets. Now I can easily grab a single flower and get stitching. Someday, I will have a quilt top.

Tools and supplies (affiliate links):

Fiskars Rotary Cutter

Fiskars Rotary Cutter replacement blades
Fiskars Self Healing Rotary Cutting Mat
BLACK+DECKER Classic Steam Iron
Grabbit Magnetic Pin Cushion

Fiskars Micro-Tip Scissors, 5 Inch

Fiskars X-Large Squeeze Punch, Hexagon - this thing turns junk mail into hexie ...

added by Becca 1 year, 4 months ago. under 2022 , charm , crazy , english paper piecing , epp , hexagon , hexie , moda , modern , project , sew , superior threads , tool tip

Starshine aka Strings Attached from Humble Quilts

Remember this quilt? It was made by me and published in American Patchwork & Quilting magazine in August 2021.

As I am preparing to be a vendor at a quilt show in January......

I've got solid starter packs to go along with the quilt. If you don't work with solids you may not have much of a variety. I hope these bundles will help other quilters.

I'm doing all of this by hand, including the cutting. Very grass roots! How do you all feel about that? Does it always need to be cut exact and super cutesy?

I ...

added by Lori 1 year, 4 months ago. under modern , quilt show vendor , solids , string quilts

Getting Hexie with It from Becca's Crazy Projects

Week number two of using the Sewline Water-Soluble Fabric Glue Pen I'm back to show you my progress. This time I managed to baste nearly 100 hexies with a single stick of glue. The stack of fabric that still needs to be basted is so much smaller. I ordered my refills from Amazon and they should be here this week.

A note about affiliate links: Even if you don't buy the products I link to, using my link to get to Amazon counts. If something I share inspires you, and you were going to buy something anyway, click ...

added by Becca 1 year, 4 months ago. under 2022 , charm , crazy , english paper piecing , epp , hexagon , hexie , moda , modern , project , sew , superior threads , tool tip

Getting Hexie with It from Becca's Crazy Projects

After a week of using the Sewline Water-Soluble Fabric Glue Pen I'm back to show you my progress. I would make a few of these most evenings. At the end of the week I had consumed the glue and basted 75 hexies. I think that's pretty good. I've changed the glue and am back at it. I wonder if I will get as many next week. Hopefully I will be close. That stack of fabric still needs to be basted. I already have more refills in my Amazon cart. Once I finish the basted I will be ...

added by Becca 1 year, 4 months ago. under 2022 , charm , crazy , english paper piecing , epp , hexagon , hexie , moda , modern , project , sew , superior threads , tool tip

Getting Hexie With It from Becca's Crazy Projects

I've been thread basting my hexies. By the way, these are my absolute favorites scissiors for snipping thread. I have a pair near my long arm and this pair in my hexie kit. Linked at the bottom of the post.

I decided to give the Sewline Fabric Glue Pen a try.

This kit (linked at the bottom of the post) comes with the glue pen and one refill.

One is basted with thread, the other with glue. I don't sew through the papers when basting. I only stitch through the fabric on the back side. This means the ...

added by Becca 1 year, 5 months ago. under 2022 , charm , crazy , english paper piecing , epp , hexagon , hexie , moda , modern , project , sew , superior threads , tool tip

Getting Hexie With It from Becca's Crazy Projects

As I was working on my hexie flowers I realized I didn't know where the rest of the flowers were hiding. This later afternoon sun is not helping me take good photographs.

I poked around in my sewing room until I found what I was looking for: a box labeled "Hexies". Sometimes I get it right. So many great things in that box. A big stack of finished flowers, two more 5" charm packs, a bunch of hexie papers, and some larger pieces of coordinating fabric.

I cut those last 5" charms into 2.5" charms and put them ...

added by Becca 1 year, 5 months ago. under 2022 , charm , crazy , english paper piecing , epp , hexagon , hexie , moda , modern , project , sew , superior threads

Getting Hexie With It from Becca's Crazy Projects

I have been working, on and off, on these hexie flowers for close to ten years. It is a great travel project, or something I can do while watching television but I just haven't been working on it all that diligently. Want to see where I was in 2014? Check out this post.

I was recently in a teleconference and grabbed my bag and got stitching.

I managed to finish four of them last week. Slow progress, but not ten years of slow progress.

Tools and supplies (affiliate links):

Fiskars Rotary Cutter

Fiskars Rotary Cutter replacement blades
Fiskars ...

added by Becca 1 year, 5 months ago. under 2022 , charm , crazy , english paper piecing , epp , hexagon , hexie , moda , modern , project , sew , thread

Good Morning Baby Quilt in Dream! from Busy Hands Quilts

Today's fun quilty share is a Good Morning quilt in the Baby size! The blending of bright rainbow colors with gray gives way to a modern baby quilt that will keep the precious baby goggle-eyed and entertained!

Good Morning is a great pattern to use your scraps of scraps or jelly rolls, or use yardage of five colors to create an ombre effect. Both methods are included in the quilt pattern, along with all of the quilt sizes, and strip piecing, as well. I love to spoil you with all of those important details! :)

The Good Morning quilt pattern ...

added by Myra @ Busy Hands Quilts 1 year, 6 months ago. under baby quilts , busy hands quilts , busy hands quilts patterns , good morning , modern , patterns , quilts in my patterns , rainbows , strip pieced

Accidentally modern from The Academic Quilter

Hi all! Well, the summer travel is over for us. Sadness! We did have some great trips, and we have now seen both ends of US1, but the good times are over for now and it's back to the grind. I will say that nothing makes you appreciate your own home quite like traveling. Especially your own bed. Good-smelling sheets!

If you've been around the blog for a bit, you know that "modern" is not really my thing. All that empty space! Most modern quilts look unfinished to me, though I do admire many of them. What can ...

added by Mari 1 year, 8 months ago. under finished , modern , white

Make May Modern from Becca's Crazy Projects

Last Saturday the Baltimore Modern Quilt Guild held their Make May Modern one day retreat. I didn't attend in person but they encouraged everyone to make a tote using the Ruby Star Society Reusable Shopping Tote pattern (free). Since I didn't attend I decided to at least sew along with part of my day and make the tote. This fabric has been in my collection for more than five years. I'm pretty sure it came to me as a mystery box of quilting cottons from Craftsy. Large prints almost always become totes or bags because I don ...

added by Becca 1 year, 11 months ago. under 2022 , bag , baltimore , maryland , modern , mqg , serger , sew , sew my stash , sewing , shopping , stash , tote

A Fingerpaints finish-tada! from Sew Sunshine

This is the Fingerpaints quilt by Quiltfortco from last summers qal.

I used her pattern but made it improv style. I used a ton of scrappy solids and tone on tone pieces from my stash along with tons of strips in my scrap bins.

I finished it out a little bigger by using a few more strips.

74" x 79"

quilted by Grace Elizabeths longarm

I grabbed a few photos but it has been super windy the last couple of days.

This was truly a fun quilt to make. I love the play on light with the fabrics and I ...

added by Kris 2 years, 1 month ago. under 2022 finish , fingerpaints , improv , modern , quiltfortco , scrappy , stash

Woven Threads Quilt - A Throw Size Rainbow with White! from Busy Hands Quilts

Today I'm sharing another rainbow Woven Threads quilt! This is the Throw size, made with a rainbow of Boundless Botanical prints and Kona solids.

The Woven Threads quilt pattern is a good one for showcasing your rainbow jelly rolls. Woven Threads is a quick and easy modern rainbow quilt.

The Woven Threads quilt pattern is available in the Busy Hands Quilts pattern shop.

Woven Threads Quilt Pattern

Woven Threads is an easy modern strip quilt pattern. It goes together quickly, and I can see making it again and again in a single colorway or two, in addition to rainbows ...

added by Myra @ Busy Hands Quilts 2 years, 6 months ago. under busy hands quilts , busy hands quilts patterns , modern , patterns , quilts in my patterns , rainbows , strip pieced , throw quilts , woven threads

Woven Threads Quilt Pattern - A Twin Size Rainbow on Black! from Busy Hands Quilts

I'm so excited to share the Woven Threads quilt with you today! This is a yummy rainbow or ombre quilt pattern.

The Woven Threads quilt pattern is available in the Busy Hands Quilts shop.

Kona Cotton Solids

For this quilt, I pulled strips from my Kona solid strip bin in rainbow order. This is the Twin size, and it requires 14 strips of color, so I pulled two hues of each of the seven traditional rainbow coverways.

The background is black, and the other two colors are a medium gray and a faux linen in charcoal. These colors don ...

added by Myra @ Busy Hands Quilts 2 years, 6 months ago. under bed-sized quilts , busy hands quilts , busy hands quilts patterns , modern , patterns , quilts in my patterns , rainbows , strip pieced , twin quilts , woven threads

Hexagon Junk from Becca's Crazy Projects

What to do with that junk mail printed on light cardstock? Make it into hexie papers for English Paper Piecing.

This Fiskars extra large hexagon squeeze punch (Fiskars X-Large Squeeze Punch, Hexagon affiliate link) makes quick work of the light cardstock some junk mail is printed on.

This means I can get a pretty good crop of hexagons out of that one piece of junk.

A little bit of time basting (I thread baste but I don't stitch through the hexagon paper) and you are ready to hand sew those little hexagons together. There are loads of videos on ...

added by Becca 2 years, 7 months ago. under 2021 , charm , crazy , english paper piecing , epp , hexagon , hexie , maryland , md , moda , modern , project , sew , thread

Quilt News! New AHIQ Quilt Challenge, Modern Art Quilt or Asymmetrical Quilt? Hand Quilting Progress on Orange X Block Medallion Quilt, June Wedding, Happy July! from Crazy Victoriana

One of my most asymmetrical art quilts, finished a few years ago.

My corsage for the June wedding in San Juan Bautista, Ca Mission.

A view of the San Juan Bautista Mission.

Another of my asymmetrical art quilts, this one was published, Santa Clara Rush.

This is one of my symmetrical quilt tops, Ponies.

Hand quilting progress on my Orange X Block Medallion Quilt.

Quilt news and happy July 4th!

June was the wedding month around here with a fabulous wedding in San Juan Bautista, CA,

and with grand children running around and gorgeous scenery it was a blessing.

And ...

added by Janie 2 years, 9 months ago. under art , asymmetrical , design , improv quilts , modern

Quilting in Lime Green from Becca's Crazy Projects

When I picked up the Innova long arm I asked if there was anything MJ wanted me to quilt for her. she handed over a fun little quilt.

I chose this pretty swirl design and got stitching.

I chose a coordinating green for the top and bobbin threads. I love how the texture shows on the solid backing.

Now I can get it back to MJ so she can attach and finish the binding.

added by Becca 2 years, 9 months ago. under 2021 , baltimore , crazy , long arm , longarm , maryland , md , modern , mqg , project , projects , quilt , quilting

Intriguing Interleaves from Seaside Stitches

What a fun workshop this was! Mel Beach taught Intriguing Interleaves to Ninigret Quilters via Zoom in February. It is a quilt-as-you-go method, which means when the piecing is done, so is the quilting! How satisfying to have a completed project so soon after taking a class, and not another UFO for the pile!

Mel is an outstanding teacher who utilizes all the technology at her disposal to maximize student engagement in the virtual environment. She's the best we've seen since we started Zooming in April 2020.

I'm not going to get into the process here, but ...

added by Tina Craig 3 years, 1 month ago. under 2021 finish , interleaves , mini , modern , small quilt , solids

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