I had pretty much vowed not to start any more projects until my holiday sewing was done. However, my grandfather passed away about a week ago, and last Tuesday I spent a significant amount of time at my mom's house, watching her newborn puppies while she and my dad wrapped things up at my grandfather's funeral. I didn't want to bring my hand crank machine along because my back has been acting up (its weight is the only thing that makes me occasionally consider getting an electric sewing machine), and I was afraid to use my mom's sewing machine for fear that it would bother the puppies (however, their ears are closed, so they wouldn't have been able to hear anyway). So I decided to try English paper piecing by sewing some hexagons.
I hate hand sewing so I figured I'd hate making hexagons. However, I love the look of hexagons and wanted to see how much of a pain they were to make. I printed off
this template and looked at a few tutorials.
This video was the most helpful for me. Then I tried it.
Hexagons!
Those little things are like potato chips - you can't have just one. I made a whole bunch that day, and have made more since. There's something so satisfying about ending up with that perfect little hexagon.
I think I'm going to make a bunch and applique them to a quilt...just a long line of hexagons down one side of the quilt. I don't have the patience to make a whole quilt that way, and I don't really care for the hexagon flowers. I love these little things, though.
I'm definitely motivated to get moving on my holiday sewing so I can spend my winter break making a whole pile of little hexagons.
I was surprised how much I loved hand sewing too, it's therapeutic and for someone like me, my hands have to be occupied all the time! Hand cranks are very heavy!
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