Hexie Love E-Magazine! Give-Away!

**NOTE** This Give-Away has ended!  Congrats to our winner!  Be watching for more Give-Aways coming up soon!

There is a new e-magazine available for download!

If you love your kindle, your ipad, your cell phone or your laptop – this magazine is for you!

When I was asked by Julia Wood if I would participate in a blog hop for the release of her premier issue on Joomag, I of course said YES!

You know I have been working with hexagons since the mid 1990s.

The first grandmother’s flower garden quilt was made with 1.5” hexies, traced with a template, cut with scissors and hand stitched with a 1/4” seam allowance in the traditional hand piecing method.  This project occupied hours and hours of time while waiting on the side lines for things like swimming lessons, soccer practice, baseball practice and games, and gymnastics while my boys were growing up.

I hand quilted that quilt and learned how nasty warm & natural is to hand quilt with….NEVER NEVER AGAIN! HA!

I started the large project below in 1999 when my grandmother’s health was failing and I was needing something to occupy not only my waiting time but my travel time:

Notice that date? 2012!

It took me nearly 14 years to finish this top, it was off again, on again and then became my ONLY traveling project. 

Hexies are SO easy to work with on the go, as long as you do a bit of prep work ahead of time and keep your busy bag at the ready!

 

You can find my hexie tutorial HERE.

This top is now ready for quilting – but my life is too busy to do the hand quilting I want to do on it at this time.  I searched for a completed photo ---there is one here somewhere on the blog, but I couldn't find it!

Of course once you are hexie-hooked you can’t stop, and within a few weeks of finishing this top, I started another.

Progress to date:

 

Fill in section #5 of 6 slowly growing as I travel!

It's taken me nearly 2.5 years to get to this point.

Now, this post isn't just about me and my love of hexies – it’s about the release of a brand new book MORE Quick &Easy Hexie Quilts by Julia Wood! 

Fun fun fun!

Note from Julia:

This is my second book using the circle technique for making hexies.

 It includes 10 patterns for quilts and related items.

Complete instructions are given for making hexies from circles of fabric.

The patterns in the book can be made with ANY hexagon technique, including English paper piecing. 

And ESPECIALLY about the release of the online Magazine, HEXIE LOVE!

A hello from Julia!

Table of Contents!  These are the goodies you will find in the issue!

Are you itchin’ to be stitchin’ ??

This quilt is called Odyssey!

About Odyssey: 

Center medallion of the progressive quilt, ODYSSEY, which is patterned in parts within each issue of this year’s Hexie Love – By the end of the year, a subscriber will have all the step in the pattern.

Julia and the nitty gritty about Hexie Love:   

I started Hexie Love at the beginning of this year. I wear ALL the hats in the production process – I’m the editor, manager, etc. At this point it is only digital.

Hexie Love includes articles by talented hexagon quilt artist from all over the world. There is always a scrappy hexie pattern, a small hexie project or two, a book review, and lots more hexagon inspiration!

There are 6 issues per year priced at $5.99 each. A year’s subscription is $26.99.

For more information on MORE Quick & Easy Hexie Quilts AND Hexie Love Magazine, visit Julia’s Blog.

To celebrate kicking off this blog hop, we are having a giveaway for a free digital issue of HEXIE LOVE!

Leave me a comment below in the comments section to be entered to win.
 
Small print:
 
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I will be drawing for our lucky winner on Tuesday, April 14th at the end of the blog hop.  Be sure to visit all of the participants on their day, they all have surprises for you as well!

April 6  Bonnie Hunter
http://quiltville.blogspot.com
April 7  Catherine Redford
http://catherineredford.com
April 8   Linda Franz
http://www.lindafranz.com/blog/
April 9  Cheryl Sleboda
http://muppin.com/wordpress/index.php/blog/
April 10
Geta Grama
http://cadouri-din-inima.blogspot.com
April 11 
Victoria Findlay Wolfe
http://bumblebeansinc.blogspot.com
April 12 Becky Campbell 
https://www.facebook.com/sewforeverquiltingbybeckycampbell
April 13 Joan Shay
https://www.facebook.com/joan.mooreshay


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