Hexie Love - Not your Grammas Flower Garden
It's more like a Cottage Garden.... Hello fellow quilters!! How are things with you? I hope this post finds you well. I've had a whirlwind month since I last wrote.... I attended International Quilt Market in Minneapolis (over the top exciting - more on it later)... Do you LOVE my Redbird Wool Applique Shirt? Took two days of training from the most awesome professional long arm quilter, Karen McTavish, (my quilting life will never be the same) - (more later here too!!) And, with my sisters Janet and Michele, poured tons of love and attention into a neat modern hexie quilt for our beautiful niece Alexis and her lovely partner Laura -- we called it "Hexie Love". Today I want to share a bit of the quilt prep process and lots about the quilting including bunches of images. First I want to thank Aurifil thread (once again) for making the best cotton quilting thread East of the Mississippi!! I chose my thread, the 40Wt and 50Wt Aurifil Mako Cotton thread, long before I k...