Saturday 30 July 2011

HEXAGON JOURNEY AND ANOTHER GO AT A GO

When Ros came to visit us last week she brought gifts with her as I said in the last post, what I forgot to tell you was she had brought a little zip-loc bag for Rebecca, inside were papers, fabric, needle, in fact just about everything she needed to get started on making Hexagons. Ros thought Rebecca would like to do these.
Well I have to say on the day Rebecca was not overly bothered which I think may have upset Ros a bit, [sorry] it made me cross because Ros had made such a lovely gift of this for Rebecca, but I told her I would get her making them and we would do it together, and guess what?
Today Rebecca asked to start her Hexagons, Ros had sent her some pictures of things made with them and she was really taken with the Bookmark. So we picked up her zip-loc bag of goodies and I printed out some for myself, oh yes I am now a Hexagon maker!!! [Stop laughing Di.] I had awful problems with my printer trying to get the size Ros had brought, it would not print them that size, so the odd ones I have given to Rebecca and we have marked them either 1, 2 or 3 so she doesn't mix the sizes up. Mine have OK on them!!!!
We sat in the garden and I showed her how to tack them up ready ala Ros. Then she wanted to know how to sew them together so I showed her the way the Ros had shown me last week - I have to say it is a much nicer way of doing them, very relaxing - and off she went, stitching away. She learnt very quickly NOT to have too long a thread, how many knots did I have to untangle!!!!

Here you go Ros, pictures of Rebecca starting her Hexagon journey.
Cutting the papers very carefully...
 Next sheet...
 Joining the shapes...
 Concentration is the key...
 Needle poised...
 Look Ros, two joined together...
She actually got five joined together at her first sitting of Hexagons, I am not going to push her,
much better for her to do these as and when she wants I feel,
rather than spoil everything by saying we WILL do them today.
I got my papers cut out and about six tacked up with the fabrics.
I am using my collection of 30's fabrics for them and have a plan............

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7 comments:

Pat said...

Rebecca looks so cute with her two joined hexies. I can't wait to see her progress as she does more of them.

Pomona said...

Thank you so much for blogging about my giveaway!

Pomona x

Di said...

I need photographic proof of you sewing hexagons!!!!!!! How does Ros sew her hexagons together?

Rosa-Munda said...

I knew it wouldn't be long before Rebecca was hooked by the hexie bug! Great photos and I'm glad you got the templates sorted. There is a way of sewing hexies by machine too, in strips with small triangle in between. I'll see if there is a tutorial anywhere. Happy hexing Ros xxxxx

Rosa-Munda said...

Forgot to say, I love your new background! Is this some of your work?

jan said...

hahaha well I put the wrong information down for you Ros.
The background is mine you can find what it is here..
http://jansmusing.blogspot.com/2010/04/ive-been-busy-playing.html you will have to scroll down quite a way to find it though, sorry.

jan

Maggi said...

Glad that Recbecca is enjoying some hand sewing. Have you seen this site by the way - free hexagons and other graph papers. http://incompetech.com/graphpaper/. I've been doing some lately, seems like it is catching.