:: so here's what's been happening ... ::

Apart from our sewin' with the home-ies printing and sewing, Vee and I have been busy with other stuff.

My 'other stuff' has mainly involved sewing.  

Our friend Tracy and I made a sewing-machine-cover, in a sewing-class at our local quilt shop.  Mine's all done, and Tracy is coming over tomorrow to finish hers off.  I used up every last skerrick of my Madrona Road fabric, and have have now ordered more!!

{{all Madrona Road, all gorgeous ... and do you spy Ron Swanson in the background?  He's waiting for his face to be sewn together.  Lucky that Happy Zombie Monica said that Ron is patient ... }}

{{top view.  so pleased I thought to leave my sewing-machine oil in the pic ... }}

{{I just love it.  Makes me very happy}}

There have been hexies too - I'm up to 16 out of the 75 needed to make the HexyMF.  It will happen in my lifetime:

And then just today I used the very excellent Refrigerator Magnet pattern by Elizabeth Hartman from the always-awesome Oh Fransson blog, to make this 'K' ... which then became a zip pouch.  It's the first time I've used freezer-paper to piece anything together, so I was totally loving myself sick about it!! 

{{Lizzy House green and purple fabrics, and oh look, Madrona Road grey/black haystack}}

{{so happy with it! it's a pressie for someone who has been very kind to me in what has been quite an emotional and tricky week}}

{{and here's the back ... }}

{{and last pic, the inside ... and yes, I matched the inside-fabric to the photo-shoot background}}

So that's everything up-to-date sewing-wise.  We'll have more pics of our new home-ies soon.  Hope your week has been fun.    xoxo cat

:: who'd have thought it would be so liberating? ::

the start of favourite fabrics seeing the light of day!, a photo by cat&vee on Flickr.

More hexies. 

I was getting worried all the texty fabrics were a little heavy on the cream/white/pale side, so I held my breath and started cutting into some favourite fabrics too.

Thought I'd be a bit scared, but I am loving letting some long-held favourites see the light of day. 

Meanwhile, I am just noticing the paleness of some of the fabrics in the pics ... mmmhmmmmmm.

More to come, lots more colour, lots more texty-fabrics, but I've run out of glue-refills. Need to find time to nick to the fabric-shop. 

In the meantime, the petal-stitching has started.

stay tuned xoxo cat

:: textyhexymf ::

I am signing on for my first-ever on-line quilt-a-thon!!  Am way excited.  And it's going to take a verrrry long time. 

It's the hexymf-along via the very fabulous Fat Quarterly blog.  Click through and see Katy's gorgeous original hexymf quilt.  Love it a lot.  

I ummmmed and aaahhhhhed a lot about fabric for the hexymf - do I buy yet more fabric just for this project?  Ah, no.  I have plenty of fabric.  A lot of fabric.  A huge amount of fabric. 

So it's time to cut into fabric that is "too precious to use" - lots of text prints, and lots of favourites.  I'm fussy-cutting a lot of it, so it's actually a little bit wasteful - but I am loving looking at all these perfect little hexies of fabric-sweetness.

Have only basted two so far:

{{are you feeling the love?}}

{{get Prince's song into your head right now - that's where 'hexymf' comes from!}}

Because I'm using a lot of text-prints (as well as a lot of absolute favourite fabrics) - I'm calling it the 'textyhexymf'.  

Happy last-day-of-the-hols to you.  Gah, where has that time gone!!    xoxo cat