Nothing Could Be Finer Than to Be in Carolina -

My 3 weeks worth of hexie stars.

So many miles, and even more memories!

I brought home a bunch of Japanese fabrics, and I want to work some of those in here – as well as the African batiks that I’ll be picking up in Kenya come October. 

If this is the everlasting ongoing on-the-go project with no deadline, then I can also add fabrics found along my way and really make it a memory quilt.

I’m not tired of these yet.  They are a tad bit more tedious than “regular” hexies.  The sides are nearly 2’’ long, requiring thread basting THROUGH the paper (I do not like glue, don’t tell me to use glue!) to keep the sides from flapping, but the basting comes out with one snip of a stitch and a couple of pulls taking no time at all. 

How big will I go?  I don’t know! I don’t know how I will even set them yet – block to block?  Or with setting triangles in rows?  Or perhaps with large unpieced hexagons to float them?

No need to worry about that yet.  Just keep stitching.

I did have to chuckle at the flight attendant last night who asked me if I was “making coasters?!”  Well, you could use them that way, I suppose!

If you are wanting to dive in, these are the same stars found in my Rishi digital pattern found in the Quiltville Store.  

The pattern includes pdf to print your own papers should you wish, or you can order them from paperpieces.com.

Leaving Phoenix.

A few hours later, landing in Atlanta.

And home to someone waiting for me -

Hello, sweet girl!

Son Jeff was there right on time to help me with my luggage, and let me tell you – I fell right into bed upon arrival at home.  NOTHING feels as good as your own bed when you’ve been away for 3 weeks.

Morning walk – favorite tree.

Saying hello to my hood!

Good morning, babbling brook.

Good morning, sun!

And be sure your volume is on for this one.  Click to play:

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I love this sound so much!

I have printed the invoices for orders that have come in since I left for Japan.  Those will begin filling today in the order in which they came in.

The plan is to get these 100 orders out the door by 5pm tomorrow so that I can head up to the cabin for the weekend.

42 in the done pile.

It feels like it should be more than that.  LOL.

All I want is a weekend date with my sewing machine!  I barely got machine time through my holiday break due to the String Frenzy book release, and now I’ve been gone for 3/4 a month and as much as I love them, the hexie stars are not filling my need to slice and dice and sew and make.  You get it, right?

I’ve got about 10 days before I head off to Texas – let’s see what we can do with it.  There should be time to through a Quilt-Cam into the mix as well, just let me get my bearings first!

Quiltville Quote of the Day.

Playing with Jacks quilt shared by Alice during last weekend’s workshops in Phoenix!

I truly believe this!

Give it a try - What have you got to lose?

What have you got to gain?

Have a wonderful Thursday – it feels so great to be HOME!