One Flower Wednesday . . . . Plus One

One Flower Wednesday

On My Way Back to One Flower Wednesdays

Hand sewing hexagons flowers is relaxing and enjoyable.  A cup of coffee, some tv to listen to and before you know it, a flower has bloomed.  BUT, tracing all those hexagons and then cutting them with scissors is anything but relaxing and enjoyable!  I tried with a rotary cutter but that was a disaster.  I haven't been in the mood for the tedium, nor have I had time for it, so my Wednesdays have been without flowers for weeks.  

Enter the GO! cutter that Karen so generously lent to me.  I ordered a hexagon die and I'm back in business!

 Perfect hexagons so very quickly and easily!

Look at them all! 

I'll have flowers to show next Wednesday for sure!

Thanks again Karen!

Not So Fast ...And One Flower

I was sewing away fast and furiously on a kid sized quilt made of one giant block. 

It was going together fast.

Perhaps a little too fast.  

As mom would say "more haste, less speed".

Time for the seam ripper.

Just one flower this week.  But isn't it a pretty one?!

Thanks for the fabrics Karen.

One Flower Wednesday.... I'm Back!

I've decided to make smaller flowers... just centers and one row of petals.  The second row of 12 petals is keeping me from sewing any flowers at all.  So I'd rather have smaller flowers - not quite as traditional - than no flowers at all.   Two this Wednesday.  I'm happy with that re-start.

One Flower Wednesday

Just one flower.  And it took me two weeks to sew it. ....sigh....
But...
I enjoyed the process.

One Flower Wednesday

Well I made it on time this week. One block finished.  This time in 30s prints.  The plan was to make this one with templates and whip stitching.  I really tried but I just can't do it.  It's awkward and my stitches show.  So just plain hand stitching it is.

One Flower Wednesdays

A hand sewn project has been calling me.  Grandmother's Flower Garden seems like the perfect quilt to sew by hand.  A bit ambitious maybe for my first hand sewn project but it IS just a piece at a time. So, I can do it. Yesterday, thanks to Quilting Fiesta, I found Karen of the blog Journey of a Quilter.  She is hosting a Garden Party.  Every Wednesday one flower needs to be sewn.  My first thought was I'll do a dozen each Wednesday.  You'll notice it's Thursday as I post this.  My first flower didn't get finished until this morning.  But it did get done!

TAH DAH!

and the back... I need to work on smaller, more consistent, straighter stitches... time and practice...

It's not really that color. See how my cutting board isn't even green?  It's really the color of the fabric below, which I purchased to make a wallhanging and had lots left. 

And, since I'm hand sewing a traditional quilt pattern it seemed appropriate to use 30's fabrics.  So maybe two quilts will come of this.  Just a few fat quarters to start. 

I feel out of my element with 30's fabrics but I was told after I use them for a while I'll wonder how I'd ever do without.  We'll see.  They are pretty cheery.

So now on Wednesdays you'll find me with my cup of tea at a Garden Party!