The Next Stage: Hexie Down Under Swap

Sunday, July 19, 2015

Hexies and Stamps...

Last Friday night I cut out hexagons for the Hexie Down Under Swap that I had joined. By Friday I had already received hexie flowers from 3 other ladies who had joined the swap...

They are so beautiful!

I had said that I like purples, teals and blues and the fabrics these ladies chose are just perfect!

Now you might wonder about the word 'stamps' in the subject of this post...well it's postage stamps. For years I have collected used stamps which I hand in to our parish who pass them on to another group in the Anglican diocese and these stamps are sold to raise funds for various projects in Missions. Various friends hand on their stamps to me as well, so I can get quite a bundle in no time. This was a bundle that I handed over in May this year.

I was thrilled to read in a summary from this year's Synod that the stamps handed in from people in Queensland raised just over $10000 last year...now that must have been a LOT of used stamps! Lol

And those lovely hexies in that first photo all came in envelopes with stamps...and there will be 14 more such envelopes arriving before September 30...

The biscuit tin that I throw the stamps into until I have a ziplock bagful, is steadily filling up again...

So not only lovely hexie flowers coming my way, but more used stamps for the tin! :-)

Friday, July 17, 2015

Friday Night Sew In...

It was a night of cutting for me! I had decided that one big cutting session should get me ready to start the Instagram Hexie Down Under Swap. There are 18 in my group ( that includes me) and we have to make 2 hexie flowers per person...so that's 34 x 7 that I needed to cut out. The hexagons are 1 inch.

We were each sent a list of people's preferences, so it was just a matter of sorting through my 'stash' to find suitable fabrics. In recent months I have been sorting my fabrics and putting them in bundles based on colours and themes...really glad I did that!!