Old hexies

Sorry gang - it's time to leave work for the fair and I have no idea if I'll have a decent connection at home so here is a quickie post from camping. The Adirondack museum was having a quilt exhibit and look what I found!!

On my bucket list is to find an old hexie quilt in my price range. I would love to look at the old letters or newspapers used and determine it's age...

Hopefully life will return to normal next week and I can finish my camping pictures.

pictureless wednesday :(

I've spent at least the last 30 minutes trying to get one lousy photo to upload and the internet just won't comply. I don't have much clever to say today...Last night was the fireman's parade at the fair. It rained hard in the afternoon but had stopped for the parade. As I was one of 3 pulling our antique hose cart we got to skip the muddy arena. The guys who always pick carrying the flags (it's "easier") were not happy that they still had to march in the mud.

Tonight I am demonstrating open hearth cooking again with Italian night. I'm making egg noodles for chicken noodle soup, cavatelli with fresh tomtatoes/mozzarella and garganelli with summer veggies. We are also going to make cornbread and sweet potato biscuits. I probably won't get to take any pictures again as I just found out my camera battery is dead and no time to charge it since I best get on the road. Lets hope I can get a photo posted tomorrow...I better try from my office where I have a better connection...

Don't forget to come back Friday for not just one but two linky parties and prize announcements!

Pressing Issues...

This here is my messy ironing board and you can see that it will be getting a work out soon. Last Friday (you know, no chores day) had to be slightly interrupted for fair prep but I felt the need to work on a machine piecing project and decided to work on my Orca Bay mystery quilt. I did not feel the need to create the remaining blue string blocks that are holding up the whole project but I did think I could start to assemble the quilt top with the blue blocks I already had. I divided the quilt top into quarters and completed one section (shown hanging on the design wall in yesterdays post). I then pieced as many more pairs as I could using all the pieces I have on hand. I continued sewing early Saturday morning but the ironing still needs doing. Maybe this friday will be the day to iron and continue assembly.

You can see a short stack of blue/white 16 patches - my current leader ender project.
You can also see I have attached the last 2 pieces of a rose star shown yesterday.



Sorry folks - I reloaded this pic 3 times and tried everything else in between that normally works.
Please tilt your head to the right for a more realistic view.

Yesterday I was able to cut out the pieces for another star. I think I have told y'all that this is a fussy cutting project and these particular pieces were cut with the templates I just received from paperpieces.com. I LOVE them and the cutting process was so quick and easy thanks to the clear templates. I think the only way to make them better would be a dead center dot and maybe lines marking quarters to line up a fussy cut design.

Make sure you come back on Friday - Not only is it our weekly Feline Friday Linky Party but it will also be the first monthly Hexie Linky Party. It will also be my 500th post and there will be prizes involved!!! Cya then!!!