hexagons in progress

[dragonlady7]

The only purple fabric I could easily find in my discards/scraps stash was stretch jersey, and I don't have to know a lot to know that's not really ideally suited to quilting.
So I decided to hand-sew it, along with some other tricky bits and scraps, to some non-stretch backing fabric, the lining of a skirt I deconstructed over the weekend.

I also seamed a too-small scrap of brocade to a strip of unrelated scrap fabric, and then tacked the seam allowance down in gold glitter thread.
So there's my little stash of over-elaborate hexagons for today.
(I remembered to find my scissors and thread, so.)

Comments

[sabotabby]

THE SHINY!

Very excited to see how this turns out.

[dragonlady7]

oh gosh. i still don't know what i'm going to make it into.

My Quilting Shit seems to be settling out to: making whole cloth quilts from big pieces of fabric, rag quilts from smaller but whole pieces of fabric, then appliques or pieced squares (this is the next stage which I haven't started yet) from smaller pieces but larger amounts of fabric, and then hexagons from appropriately-sized left over scraps, and then crumb or crazy quilts from the leftover fragments that don't work for hexies.

So I think I'll probably just be accumulating hexagons for a long time, and if I get enough in a color scheme I think I can make into something, then I'll do that.

I'm also going to try to make myself draw a line and finish things, because I don't want too many nebulous "someday" projects that I'm forever collecting things for-- but I feel like the hexagons will be one of those somedays, because they're just such a good smallish organized thing, and also you need so goddamn many of them to make anyfuckingthing at all.
(I should count how many I have, and put the finished ones safely into a space to store them until all are done, though.)

[wyomingnot]

nebulous "someday" projects that I'm forever collecting things for

I hear that. I've got a small bin of granny squares made from sock yarn. (they're a great little thing to carry around at school that I can work on between classes when I'm not near the office. easy to just stop and drop it in the bag and pick it back up later. and the kids are fascinated by crochet. and knitting).... but I've been doing the squares on and off for... um... probably five years now. And I have yet to do *anything* with the squares beyond rounding them all up into one place.

[dragonlady7]

You know, as long as you just keep them rounded up, eventually you'll be able to do a thing. that's what I'm going for, here.
My problem is that I work on things like this and then lose all the things I made, so I'm like 'well somewhere in my house this thing exists but i don't know where'. I have entire completed embroidery projects that just... I don't know where they went. I did them, i took an in-progress picture, I remember that I finished them, I... don't know what I did then.
I'm trying to not do that, so if I have a reliable Here Is Where I Put Half-Completed Things spot, maybe it won't happen so much.