Once again I'm linking up with Sarah's blog where each month she invites other bloggers to 'show and tell' their paper piecing projects, which includes EPP hexies of course!
Regular readers would know that I started a decluttering challenge where I've been discovering kits and patterns that have been sitting idle.
The other day though, I thought of something which I knew was in the built in wardrobe in bedroom#2. I hadn't given this item a thought for a few years now...and I also thought that this item would be something I could write about for this link up. Especially since my long hexie Christmas runner and my Liberty print hexagon cushion have not progressed very much in this last month. :-(
So without further ado...the item...
Not very interesting, just a cardboard box...so what's inside?
Yes some hexies! Now I did not make these...no cutting out of fabric and paper, no stitching over the card/paper, none of that! About 5 years ago I saw this lot on Ebay; the description by the seller suggested that there were 900 hexagons in this lot. On the spur of the moment, I placed a bid...and in a few days, those hexies were mine. They arrived in an old shirt box which sort of fell to pieces...so I found another box for them. I did try to count them a few times but stopped after about 500... :-/
This had obviously been a long term project for someone...a real labour of love perhaps as they were so neatly stitched over light card ??The card pieces are a real piece of history too...
I recognised cigarette cartons (in the 50s and 60s my dad used to buy his ciggies by the carton!) and biscuit packets, Bic biros carton and lots of other packaging from those decades...
The fabrics are varied...probably a lot of dress fabrics as patchwork cottons were hard to come by in Australia for many years. There are however, a lot of lovely pure cottons including some homespuns, as well as the expected poly cottons.
A closer look in the box...
Now that I've rediscovered these, I'm quite excited about how I can use them...shame I don't have any grandchildren as it would be a great sorting activity for them putting the hexies into groups. I think I did start that a while ago and found that of each different fabric there were plenty of the same to make 'flowers' for a Grandma's Garden design. Or maybe a diamond shaped motif...or a star...or just a random mosaic???
Oh and most importantly...this box of hexies is staying here at my place...no decluttering purge for them! lol
Regular readers would know that I started a decluttering challenge where I've been discovering kits and patterns that have been sitting idle.
The other day though, I thought of something which I knew was in the built in wardrobe in bedroom#2. I hadn't given this item a thought for a few years now...and I also thought that this item would be something I could write about for this link up. Especially since my long hexie Christmas runner and my Liberty print hexagon cushion have not progressed very much in this last month. :-(
So without further ado...the item...
Not very interesting, just a cardboard box...so what's inside?
Yes some hexies! Now I did not make these...no cutting out of fabric and paper, no stitching over the card/paper, none of that! About 5 years ago I saw this lot on Ebay; the description by the seller suggested that there were 900 hexagons in this lot. On the spur of the moment, I placed a bid...and in a few days, those hexies were mine. They arrived in an old shirt box which sort of fell to pieces...so I found another box for them. I did try to count them a few times but stopped after about 500... :-/
This had obviously been a long term project for someone...a real labour of love perhaps as they were so neatly stitched over light card ??The card pieces are a real piece of history too...
I recognised cigarette cartons (in the 50s and 60s my dad used to buy his ciggies by the carton!) and biscuit packets, Bic biros carton and lots of other packaging from those decades...
The fabrics are varied...probably a lot of dress fabrics as patchwork cottons were hard to come by in Australia for many years. There are however, a lot of lovely pure cottons including some homespuns, as well as the expected poly cottons.
Oh and most importantly...this box of hexies is staying here at my place...no decluttering purge for them! lol
