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For sewing this week, I played with scraps in a slightly different way... the start to a quilt above is from an online design I saw... goody goody gumdrops

I decided to mainly use my aqua/turquoise scraps  for this, with lavendar, lime, fuchia mixed in

After all the time I spent on my watercolor quilt, I thought, I should gather some other sized squares from the color bins, to organize some scraps by size and shape not colors

My watercolor scraps are cut to 2" square, so I moved up in size to 2.5"   3"  and 3.5 ...

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welcome to this week's creativity round-up starting with evening handwork on hexie spiral in pink

being sewn together one hexie at a time!

Mostly I am working my (slow) way through sketchbook revival lessons and getting to know my art supplies again by using them
used tiny triangles to do improv geese to be added to last week's work

used tiny scraps to build a book cover (it will be quilted then folded in half)

lots of blocks made for the "parts dep't"

and sewing this ...

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welcome to this week's creativity round up. I want to be beading, painting and writing but my body won't cooperate. Luckily I could still sew, so, on with the show... 

Starting with the 10th Hexi spiral block this year, this time in light pale blues

I kind of like it! Surprised myself with that! I finished hand sewing the hexies while watching the premier of this season's Amazing Race (and sewed two in the middle wrong, having to rip out and resew

last time DH said he liked them turned a different way (I was too dazzled ...

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