A Beehive Hexie Day!!!

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[Music] so [Music] [Applause] good afternoon quilt roadies thank you for stopping by i really needed the company today um for anybody who's new thank you for stopping by yeah i i'm i'm having one of those couple days and so coming to you with my heart in my hand is like the best thing i can do the world sometimes gets to be scary and i just i just want to stitch i know my family is filled with beautiful asian women who you know are career oriented and have families and i just you know it can be um challenging some days not to wake up and just cry for the anger in the world so what am i doing i'm coming to you i'm coming to you to share my quilting life and to hopefully hear some words of kindness and prayer that's what i want i'm asking you for help yeah so what am i doing well i'm trying to get organized i know that we are going to uh be on a quilt roadie trip one of these days and not too far future and so i decided to plan and after talking to um jen kingwell and realizing that there are so many blessings in the world and that australians normally are travelers but now it's kind of restricted but finding the joy in whatever we're able to do she so enabled me and so the day the day after i uh decided to go to pioneer golds because i needed a boost and this is where i know i i've come full circle 2021 was supposed to be that year of using up your stash of not not spending on a bunch of your craft and all of that but i i don't know what i read all of the comments and i received two that really struck a chord with me and one was a woman in her 70s which i'm not far away from and um she made the comment that she gets she gets joy with the dreams that comes in buying fabric or buying a project and that if that's all she gets out of it in this life then it was worth it you know so i thought oh okay maybe i need to maybe i need to stop beating myself every time i fall off the the fabric wagon and then there was a quote or an essay that was sent and it was um and it was through messenger and it was about later you know or postponing or someday and that someday is already here today because it was our someday from before and so whatever we did whatever we plan to do i don't know if this makes sense but you can't live in the later or the sunday you've got to embrace the day so after talking to jen i went to pioneer quilts and i bought some fabric now i bought fabric i have a project it's it's a secret project that i needed some sky fabric for and so i bought two pieces i i didn't know which one i was going to like better in this project so i bought two a yard of each and so isn't that gorgeous with the trees oh my gosh and it's like this deep mottled blue and um it is called woodland winter it's a hoffman spectrum print for those of you who must run out and get it and then i saw this print with all the birds the sea birds flying around and it's as you can see it's a a totally different blue than this other one so i decided i was gonna get a yard of that because i'm not quite sure which way i want to go and this one is by deborah edwards and melanie samra of northcott so um i bought those two pieces and in the spirit of jen kingwell and her little mini prints and my spring daisy um hexy challenge sew along i bought some little prints and i just bought fat quarters of these this one had look at the octopus oh my gosh and then here's the little houses in blue and my little sheep i seem to think i might have that already look at the umbrellas and then since prin daisy um stitchery which she is um the coordinator of the hashtag hexiflowercell is a science teacher i bought these two prints oh yeah they have to go into my hexi quilt yeah so i um i have a desire and a dream to start the my my my town the the project by jen king well that everybody everyone want it in you can see it all over social media so because you can create your own city you can create what you want to into it you can make that city um a representation of your history or your ancestry or your favorite places i mean i my mind is all over the place with that project so i am going to um i have a dream to start that this year that's gonna happen but what am i doing as far as um my hexis go so this is what i thought i am doing a zoom class um kind of mentoring a zoom class in at the stitching post on the 31st of march and um so i know i'm gonna be on the road there going to sit going back over the mountain to sisters and i wanted to [Music] kind of focus focus on a project because literally we are we don't have a lot of room in the band you have to be very um efficient in what you're taking and you have to plan well because in reality what i do want to do is take everything and willy-nilly do what i feel like but that's not the life on the road that's not the life of a nomad you have to be a little more efficient you have to pack really well you have to prioritize which is not really a on my list of behaviors for a quilt roadie you know cool roadie just wants to take it all you want to fit this whole thing into the van but that is not going to happen so i knew that i'd be taking a bit of wool stitching of course i have to consolidate i can't bring all my threads so i'm going to specifically bring the threads that work with the projects that i am going to bring and um then i thought this is the absolute perfect time to get ahead on my hexis not get ahead ketchup catch up on my hexis so how to do that i fell way far behind on the hashtag cell during the move and then once you fall behind on a project you feel overwhelmed you just feel overwhelmed it's um it's just the nature of the beast it's kind of like book club book if you didn't catch up you know i always feel really smug if um the book club book i have finished like two weeks before the book club meets and i just wanna um while i'm talking about book club i will share with you our latest book club choice uh which we'll be discussing this week um and it was called i just want to get the um author right okay there it is it was called um this is a choice of one of the book club members the underground railroad by colson whitehead excellent book uncomfortable yes excellent book though um just an excellent book so i would definitely put that on your reading list so back to the hexis what i decided to do is did um spring daisy stitchery who is sponsoring the hexy cell uh she puts out two hexis a week two themes i should say every sunday and no i didn't say that right she puts puts she puts out one theme every sunday and you make two hexis based on that theme so it's not like it's a big uh you know a big deal but when i fell behind i felt like i was swimming uphill and so what i decided to do was to go back because she posts on her instagram if you go and you join her instagram she is the english paper piecing queen and if you go back and go back to january every sunday you see what the theme is so i went back to where i had left off and i started organizing myself by putting them in i have these old cross stitch baggies that were left to me by a deer departed the sister of a deer departed friend and i decided i'm using these for my hexis so like week 26 i wrote week 26 on there was the theme was love and so now i have all the things cut out and ready to make into hexis for that week two hexis in each of these baggies you see so that um i can kind of catch up i thought that was the only way i could do it was that i would label them uh what week they were for and uh know that there were two of them in each one and so then as i did them i get caught up which is if i do say so myself brilliant because if that's all you take if that's only one of two options to do while you're on the road you know yourself we have got to stitch and so i'm going to stitch that i'm just going to stitch it the other thing was this was always my go-to hexi box and it still is here in the beehive what happened though the last time i took it on the road is that the top got dented because this is just this cute cute little tin box and i thought this is not really practical this is not really practical for everything i need on the road even as cute as it is so it is going to be my beehive hexi box what am i taking on the road my yazzie bag now this yazzie bag if you go on the site for yazzy bags this one i don't know what they call it and it's really difficult to see from the pictures what size it really is so i'm going to tell you this bag measures 12 inches by 10 inches 10 inches 12 inches 2 inches i decided and these things are sturdy they they'll i mean you know when you see um at the airport you see the baggage guy going across the tarmac and something flies off i've seen that a suitcase flies off this is the kind of bag if that happened to it would be okay because this is so tough it is so tough so i've decided this is my go to travel hexy bag so 10 inches by 12 inches by two inches now because i made up my hexi bag i had to put a hexi on it isn't that beautiful isn't that beautiful so cute so i made the hexi and then i just slip stitched it down with i use silk thread because silk is the strongest fiber and it when you sew hexes with it it just melts into the fabric if you get a little tug so you don't see the thread but i i can't get over how cute this looks so this is my go-to hexi bag so let me show you how i pack it and look at how it's going to be very compact to take with me in in penny so this bag has one two three four of these different configuration envelopes so i have hexy papers and mylar hexis i have oh there's the mylar hexis and there's the hexi template that i used to cut out you can see through that template to cut out the fabric i have my foam pens that i use for the starch before i press my hexis and then my needles and my little clips and my thread my silk thread and then i have a pair of scissors and then here's my i'm cutting out a bunch of the background to be able to stitch so that all fits in there like that and then these baggies that are filled with all the different weeks for hexis that i need to make are already cut out and ready to go i hope this is the screenshot because this is so freaking cute and it wasn't hard to stitch one of the things one of the great things about this particular bag is that let me just show you the back side of this bag the top of this bag didn't have a plastic pocket so i could i could fold it and stitch you know and i just slip stitched it around and then um yeah so this is the bag that's going with me i think i have just maybe maybe two or three more weeks of hexis to put together uh in baggies i have to look up on her that spring daisy stitchery i have to look on her instagram to see what week and what day i might be missing i have one two three four i have 20 hexis done hexy flowers done so um yeah i kind of i this one plan has made me feel so much more in control of my world so i'll put the link for yazzy you can uh i'll put their link but you can find yazzy like pioneer quilts has the aussie bags they're on sale soos fargo has yazi bags a lot of places have yazi bags for sale so just know that this is the 12 by 10 by two inch bag that i'm using for my hexis although you might need a bigger bag if you have a lot more hexis yeah so that's it that's it for today i am going to be cutting out some more fabric i'm going to see if any of these meet the criteria otherwise i'm going to be going through my stash and looking to fill in some of those i have let's see i still have um wind solid liquid gas and story to do five more weeks for the back seat so that's ten hexis total i need to cut out and get ready and then i'm gonna just take my little iron um my baby iron with me and um i'll be all set especially if i take i love to take this um it's so flat it just fits you know it fits everywhere and it's an ironing board on one side and a cutting board on the other so uh i'll be taking that with me whenever we go yeah good times good times ahead i hope you all are healthy i hope you all um are able to get your vaccine and that maybe this summer our world will open up a little more i have to show you this card that a friend sent me because it is absolutely lovely the best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched but must be felt with the heart you take care everybody love you and thank you for coming by [Music] you
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Length: 22min 38sec (1358 seconds)
Published: Thu Mar 18 2021
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