Design Wall Monday

Wow, what a busy week it has been!

Lecture with Bonnie Hunter at the GLHQ guild -

(sadly no pictures since I was a quilt holder).

And Saturday her workshop "Hawks Nest"

with a ton of HST's:

3 blocks done in class,

and added 4 more today!

Just counting the actual Hawk's Nest blocks,

not the hour glass blocks.

Love the quilt -

you can find the pattern in Bonnie's book

Scraps & Shirttails II.

This is Bonnie's original!

What a great time we had - 

find more pictures

on Bonnie's blog!

I also got the center part

of the Hexagon top sewn:

So, how was your sewing week?

Linking up to 

Judy's Design Wall Monday

and to HSTeria Quilt along:

16 HST per Hawk's Nest block should qualify

Total 504 HST's (!!!) for the blocks +

438 HST's for the extreme border...

That's a LOT of HST's;

I am opting for a smaller size quilt

and will see about the border later :-)

Have a great week,

Barb

Design Wall Monday

After having finished

the 2 HST charity tops,

I had to get back to 

the Hexagon guild challenge top.

My current status:

Half the top is sewn,

a few more rows left to finish.

And then I'll  have to make 

a corner design decision.

Probably a hexagon rosette type

made from smaller hexagons,

but we'll see

when I get there.

Linking up to Judy's Design Wall Monday.

Happy stitching,

Barb

Design Wall Monday

Ok, after yet another unplanned blogging break

I am back with my latest projects:

finished the quilting on Hashtag quilt today
and just sewed the binding

to the front.

It's my April UFO 

and I better get the binding
hand stitched to the back

by Wednesday April 30th...

Also sewn is the HST Charity top,

minus the border:

(oops, the quilt underneath 

is showing on bottom edge, sorry)

And I have been playing around with Hexagons

for the Quilt Guild challenge:

used some Honeycomb "Sunnyside"

and Craftsy Class pattern "Juggle" by Camille Roskelley,

trying to decide on background fabric:

Then I got Sarah  Fielke's book 

"Hand quilted with love"

from the library and

love her "Bangles quilt",

but not so much the hand sewing or y-seams.

So here is my easy Bangles approach:

sew 6 pentagons from her pattern into a hexie ring

and applique them on your background fabric!

See the first test ring on the left:

If I am attempting this quilt

I'll be using raw edge on white fabric,

even with some white edges showing thru

between the rings,

I imagine it's going to look fabulous!

So what have you been up to?

Hopefully some sewing made it into your schedule!

Linking up to

  Judy's design wall Monday,

Back to sewing my binding,

the clock is ticking,

Barb