Now the house smells like a bakery and soon it will be filled with the cooking of Christmas. The menu and meals will be simple this year and we are okay with it. Cooking it will take no time at all. Gifting us with more time to spend with our loved ones, we got our priorities right. We are still recovering from a year which most would rather forget than remember. It has not been an easy one. While we reflect on the year, we are also looking to the future. So on the twenty second day of December the advent calendar said: Plan ahead, have something to look forward to that we are passionate about!
This will be a mystery hexie project, based on an antique quilt for a young child. So if anyone wants to follow along in the new year, it will start on the first of January 2021. It has a floral theme and very much a scrappy layout. A few years back at quilt retreat, found some fabric which has some of the original antique quilt colours, a close match. So will be making a reproduction of the original antique quilt. Will be working on it a row a month. It has 63 rows in the main part of the quilt. The borders is an applique technique with hexies, which I have never seen before.
One can use dies to make the prepping a lot easier and quicker. No cutting by hand. Just getting to the good bits, sewing the hexies into a quilt.
These ones was meant for a project which never took flight, have found something while in the sewing room. At the end it will be a wall hanging.
do you have a link to the hexie quilt? I don't know if I would make it as I have plenty to do but worth a look! I am making a simple meal but one we like a small roast turkey breast, mashed potatoes and gravy a couple side dishes of veggies
ReplyDeleteWe are having Christmas brunch, because we all like eggs and ham and potatoes. So much less stress.
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