Hexies



My favorite blog these days is Material Obsession.  It is creative, insightful and filled with wonderment and joy.  The quilts created by Kathy and the ladies are remarkable - so colorful and beautiful.  Lately they have been working with hexies.  I have seen them in old quilts, and some of the ladies in my guild work on them - but never anything as wild and colorful as theirs.

Inspired, I decided to experiment so I made my own templates from plastic and printer paper.  I've made hundreds of hexies from old fat quarters and scraps - some I even fussy cut.  Then I stitch them together instinctively, without any plan on what to do with them.  Here are a few.  I have 3 sizes going - I'm lovin' the big ole Amy Butler one in the middle! 

Still have no idea what to do with them.  See those grey ones on the bottom?  Thought a light grey background would balance the color, so I came up with the bright idea to make grey connectors.  Maybe use different shades of grey in the connectors.  Bad idea... so these 2 guys will probably get wrapped in color.  I'll sort it out.

Lately I've been working on a quilt for a challenge which is mostly solid greys and browns.  I'm a girl who loves color, so I make hexies in between to satisfy my color cravings.  I'm addicted to these things and sometimes I'm up 'til 2 in the morning wrapping and hand stitching.  I get this deja vu and for whatever reason it relaxes me.

I'm binding my challenge quilt today, so this weekend I get to play with hexies - yipee!