Sunday, June 6, 2010

I went shopping today!...

In my scrap basket that is!

Just look at what I found! I will have it done for this year!

This is my process: I take freezer paper and my acrylic template and start tracing. Oh, how tedius and utterly BORING! I then cut them out with my nice paper scissors and put them in my sandwich baggie for safe keeping!

Then I go to my itty bitty ironing board that I desperately need to make a new cover for (eek!) and lay out my squares. I only have one here. Anyhow, I then iron on the freezer paper template and eyeball a 1/4" seam allowance.

Don't look at my ungroomed finger! I then start with a knot and put it on the outside for easy removal later and begin to tack the fabric down. As you can see here in this picture; I was reusing the templates (the beauty of freezer paper) as I finished the flowers but now I am not going that route anymore!

I then continue sewing the corners down to secure a nice point.

Isn't she cute? She was given to me in a swap I did in 1998.


There is a little bit on my hexie 'process'. Thanks for stopping by. Now, off to cut all those hexies. One thing I must note is that if I iron on the freezer paper; after a while, it seems to loosen. It doesn't matter cuz I can use my sister's iron when I get to America!

3 comments:

QuiltingFitzy said...

Try the www.inklingo.com site. You can feed your (trimmed to paper-size) freezer paper right into your computer, and it prints out a page hexies to cut apart.

Also, if you don't baste all the way thru all the layers, you never have to remove the basting; you can remove and reuse the freezer paper many times. I wait until the hexie is completely surrounded by other petals before removing the template.

Have fun!

Unknown said...

Alia, you know me, not the most patient of gals as I like my instant gratification so those hexies would drive me MAD!!! (yes even madder than what I already ma!!).

Hats of to you my friend ... maybe when you get back if you are still in Hexie mode you can come raid my scrap basket for a bit of variety too!

Coffeebean's Dailies said...

QuiltingFitzy: Thanks! I will go and look them up!

Clodagh: ok. Instant gratification! I'll be thinking of your words I am sure! i just might take you up on raiding your stash!

I will do one more clean through my lovely orange basket/box and whatever i don't use; i decided to donate!