Draw String Bags and Twisting to the 60s with Batiks Hop

Since I've pretty much finished my project for the Batik hop (and none to early since tomorrow is my day!!) I'm back into bazaar mode and I'm starting with drawstring bags!

I was thrilled to have the perfect chicken wire fabric for the lining on my 'chicken' bag.

I've also got some other ideas rolling around in my pea sized brain. Mostly I came across these fabric combos while looking for a red this morning in my FQ bins. They are in no way finalized combos.

The santas are a definite but I'm not so fond of the other Xmas fabrics I've found so far.
I don't have the right red but I think I have a candy cane stripe...somewhere.

This is my fav so far...the yellow and green are perfect, the strips is horrid and will disappear shortly.



Some great fabrics I came across this morning...no idea yet what I would put with them.



Wouldn't this be a fun birthday gift bag?
I bought it to fussy cut for a hexie table mat but there is enough for bags too :)



Don't forget to check out today's groovy chicks on the batik hop!

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Secretly Stitching

InGa

Almost Wordless Wednesday and Let's Twist to the 60s with Batiks

I was sew excited to see today's Hoppers...
I couldn't hold still for a picture!

Yes, I am a quilter's cat! You'll see on Friday...

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Pumpkin Patch Quilter

Kathy's Quilts

Stitching by the Beach

Hexie updates and Twist to the 60s with Batiks Hop

Some of you may have heard I dabble in something called hexies. It's just something I tinker with once in a while. LOL! Constantly is more like it!

We have a monthly Hexie Night at our LQS - either working on our own projects or swapping fabric squares to all make the same project. I also sometimes teach new patterns or pieced hexie designs. We play games, have holiday parties, bring snacks to share and we also have a birthday club. At the meeting in their birth month the birthday girl receives (7) 3/4" basted hexies from all the other girls. 


On the bottom row, due this month, are batiks, 2 reds and earthtones.
On the top row, for future months, are red, green and purple.
Forgot to photo the whole stack of purples for my own birthday :)

I know one of the first recipients of red hexies found the perfect black fabric with tiny red roses. She has the roses in the center of each hexie rosette. I haven't seen what the other girls have made yet. My birthday is just around the corner and I'm looking forward to my purple hexies. I'm also making some of my own since I'll be making this pillow I found on Pinterest and I'll need quite a few hexies:

 

Click picture for Pinterest link!

And this is a new project - which was hidden on my design wall photo from Monday. I know I need another new hexie UFO like a hole in the head but one of the days shortly after Pepper died I just couldn't get my act together and decided to peruse Pinterest, evil website that it is, to get out of my funk. It worked!

This project will have fussycut black on white and white on black fabrics just like you see in this photo. I have ordered diamond papers that will fit in around the star. When a number of stars are put together, the bright fabrics I'll use for the diamonds will look like tumbling blocks. I guess it's the black mood I was in versus the brightness of happier times? I'm still working on a name for this project... Suggestions??

Yikes! Almost forgot to remind y'all to visit today's Hoppers!
I *just might* have mine done in time for Friday!! Wootwoot!

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