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Saturday 25 November 2017

FNSI for November





Many thanks to Wendy for hosting our virtual sew-in. You can see what everyone was working on here on Wendy's blog.

I started the afternoon with the intention of adding the borders to my Hexathon quilt.




I had not squared the top up since adding the large plain section and this took a little while! At this point I was winging it a bit so decided to add the plain borders first which I did - just a small pic as it was raining outside and space indoor was at a premium!


At this point I realised that I had miscalculated on the ammount of bias strip that I needed for the coloured flange - by half! So that will have to be a job for another day. I was however able to use the off cuts of border fabric to extend the pieced borders and I have those joined now ready for my next session. Lunch guests tomorrow means that my large work table - ie the dining room table has to be cleared.


So not as much achieved as I had hoped but at least the task has been started and I now know where I am going.

Friday evening called for some relaxing hand sewing so I made this Christmas flower for one of my swap groups.


Now I am looking forward to seeing what everyone got up to. Have a great weekend.

12 comments:

  1. It's nice to see your hexie quilt progressing along Lin...yes, at least you have a plan for going forward even if you had the odd hiccup. Cute little hexie flower :-)

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  2. Great you were able to progress your hexie quilt Lin!
    Pretty hexie flower.
    Barbara xx

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  3. Well done - even if you had to clear the workspace and couldn't get back to it!

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  4. Hi Lin i love your xmas hexie ,lovely fabric.
    Its good you worked out where you went wrong,good luck with finishing it,hope you have a lovely day Lin xx

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  5. well done.. it's going to look great....
    Hugz

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  6. Your hexie quilt is looking lovely, shame about the woops with the calculations!! Pretty hexie flower. Hope you had a great lunch visit with your friends.

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  7. I love the idea of the flange Lin. It looks great. Frustrating when you miscalculate.....I do it all the time lol! Hope you enjoyed your dinner guests x

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  8. You did a lot of work on the Hexagon Quilt. Sew annoying when we mis calculate....

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  9. Popping in via FNSI...looks like you had a productive FNSI, pity about the miscalculation but the hexagon quilt looks beautiful

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  10. Your hexi quilt is looking lovely - glad you were able to fix the bias. Good solution.

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  11. Wow Lin, hexathon is coming along so well! I hope the fabric miscalc can be remedied without too much hassle.

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  12. Love your Hexathon quilt! Such a large, beautiful project to take on!

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