I have started a new piece of sewing, a simple quilt of good, old-fashioned hexagons. But I have chosen really hot and vibrant colours, fuchsia, old gold, lime green and bright yellows to list a few. The palette comes mainly from a selection of small scraps which Ruth gave me…At the moment I have been tacking a stack of fabric hexagons onto cheap computer paper; I don’t know why all the books say use thin card, it makes the work rigid and inflexible, and it’s hard to get the needle through.
I’ve really enjoyed sitting and doing a few at a time in odd moments, sitting under the umbrella on the decking and watching the birds. Nice to do that and talk and sink a bottle of Cava after a few hours working on the vegetable plot! Very civilised…I shan’t start putting them together until I have a large palette to draw from…
This little diagram is something I doodled in a quilt design program called “Quilt Pro”, I was just fiddling about trying to remember how the pieces fit together, and how to arrange the colours to make patterns. I was pleased to find that I could use control c and control v to copy the image into the blog text…most bodacious! This is much easier than Blogger to use, and is more controllable, you can manipulate things to where you want them more easily…I’m liking it, trouble is, I just lost two hours…
This little album of colourfulness shows lots of hexagons all laid out on a board ready to sew, and my box with threads and papers and needle-case etc, and a luscious stack of tacked hexagons which are dreaming about being stitched together someday soon…Well I think some dinner’s required!
A Patchwork Life 