Houston Quilt Show products

My mail box was full this morning with exciting news from The Houston International Quilt show.
so I thought I would share the video links.
have fun watching as I did

1. Heat Press Batting product
• I think I want some of this
2. Clover wonder clip
• Yep need these too
3. Clover fuse and Bind
• I can see a use for this
4. Clover Fuse and Gather
• Not sure I need this one
5. Jenny Haskins
• Love her work
6. Prescenia
• Never heard of these threads
7. Doug Antler Patterns
• Interesting
8. Moda YMCA fun
• Just some fun
9. Flip Flop Block
• Clever idea
10. Trace and Create template from Nancy Zieman for a eTablet or Paper Tablet
• Love this...good way to use all those clover products I  buy
11. Suzanne McNeill Zentangles
• Must try this
12. Moda Booth walk
• Get a pen & write down the stuff she mentions you like so you can look it up
13. Moda Fabric Booth Walk2
14. Fixon Pens
• These are the best I use them all the time
15. American Jane 
• Love the school days quilt
16. Kanas Troubles
• Love the honey bun ideas, & round table topper
17. Laundery Basket Edyta Sitar
• love her work
18. Deb Strain
• pretty
19. Jan Patek
• great ideas
20. Me ans My Sister
• very pretty colours
21. Sweetwater 
• love heart strings & the sewing words..will have to look for those
22. United Notions
• Love all the tools
23. Bunny Hill
• Love the snowman quilt
24. Kathy Schmitz 
• I think i want that book
25. Primitive Gatering
• great designs

 Hope you  got some useful info from those links from Moda,  I know I did.

Update on my foot: Had the stitches out 3 days ago...now learning to walk again on a numb foot after nerves where affect..its a very slow process...the nerve sensation in my foot will return slowly the surgeon said... and is saying operation was successful, but its hard to believe when you can not feel anything with your foot. So am off work a little longer than first thought....looking at this positively I can do some more sewing..:-)

have fun sewing

Kim

Hexagon Challenges & Decisions

Day 5

Sitting with my foot up

I am feeling very  excited about this project.

As I rummaged through my stash of fabrics I  had forgot about just how many  fat quarters of fabric I had with sewing themes on them. 

Now that I have cut my hexagons and  I even fussy cut a few…. .the go cutter makes this process so easy….

ahhh I do love my Accuquilt GO

I need to decided about a design that will also suit my situation of sitting.

Design Brief…. make something fun to show my love of sewing using my sewing themed fabrics.

Limitations: Must be able to complete sitting  and with  hand stitching, with limited access to my gadgets & supplies in my sewing room. ( I do not want to risk sending DH into my girl cave to many times)

What can you do with a hexagon??????

After  doing some researching on the net…(yes laptop is close at hand), I found several designs.

1. Tiled Hexagon arrangement – where hexagons are just stitched in rows  to create a pattern.
• this design is very achievable with fabrics I have, I can just mix them up & sew, row after row. and would give a scrappy look.
2. A Charm hexagon quilt – where every hexagon is a different fabric  stitched in rows.
• this design I could achieve with the amount of different fabrics I have  however, I will only using one hexagon of fabric and I want to display more of each fabric in the quilt
3. A grandmothers flower garden- where the hexagons are arranged into a flower shape then join together to create a second pattern. The flowers can be 2 rows big or 3 rows  or 4 rows  depending on final design.
• this design shape is still my favourite but I think I will add a Kimzeee twist to it.

And the Winner is......

A  flower design  with  Kimzeee twist, it is to be.

Fabrics have been sorted into  light & dark backgrounds

Most of my hexagons I have cut at least 6 hexagons of each fabric and i can cut more  if needed.

so let the party & fun  begin

I need to mark my hexagons seam allowance….

Oh dear

I need some  more gadgets from my sewing room….

 Lucky son is home today I can send him to fetch…

 this could be fun

 as I  describe what he is looking for & where I left it last.

1. 2 Marking pen – Pilot Frixion Pen, disappears with heat, a purple & a pink ( lucky they are my favourite colours)
2. 1/4” clear plastic ruler – this is so handy
3. sandpaper board-  this has fine sandpaper glued to a board that is perfect for marking as it grips the fabric

ok he found them … 

with a few yelling matches back & forward …

” try here or try here” ….

from me in the front of the house & him at the back of the house.

All gadgets found

Marking all the 1/4" seam allowances in before I stitch

with my Frixion pen.

  now comes the fun bits 

arranging fabrics to create a flower shape

I am creating the  flowers by using  a light coloured center & dark petals or a dark center and light petals.

I lay them out on my board to decide arrangement

PC is keeping me company

join together the hexagons,

using a  small running stitch, 

from intersection of each corner to corner,

joining each piece to center piece until you have a completed flower

Flower 1

Flower 2

Flower 3

Ok that's enough  fun for today

Have fun sewing

Kim

oops side-tracked

Last  48 hours have been a little side-tracked

had a visit to my dentist

where he pull 2 of my wisdom teeth

so have felt much like blogging

hopefully Ill be back tomorrow.

But

 The Postman did bring me a present I have been waiting for

Clover  Stort & Store  for  sewing machine needles

Clover  Sort n Store for hand sewing needles

am looking forward to sorting all my needles out

Kim

My Favorite Things

I love gadgets.

Anything that's is new, innovating, techno
and
make sewing & quilting fun, easier & quicker.

 

I'll be spreading the news here!!!!

This gadget I just love its is my
Accuquilt GO fabric cutter

 

have a look at their video link
Accuquilt Go cutter

It fun to use & save so much time and uses up all my bits of fabric

I just love it