Judy Crosswell here. I was one of the Beenleigh Quilting members who spent a day at Gatton on Jan 27 to take part in the Giant Hexagon Quilt Working Bee.
As you know, our member Faye Bowman, has encouraged us to continue the Working Bee back home so a group of us have been making hexagons, sewing them together into rosettes, sewing these then into rows and sewing the rows together. Then comes the fiddly part - removing the papers!!
I have found a novel way to do this - enlist my husband Gordon's help! The attached photo shows this; he has even been heard to comment that it is quite addictive. And I have heard him curse some of the tiny stitches holding the papers in!
As this is mainly a "girls"effort I thought you should know that the men are with us all the way!!
What a trooper. Good on ya Gordon!
Oh how wonderful of Gorden to help. Hope you buy him a beer. LOL
ReplyDeleteI am showing this to husband and all my male friends who say sewing is for girls :D
ReplyDeleteIn fact I have put Gordon on my Blog, for all my non-hexing friends to see. Hope that's OK!
ReplyDeletehaha! Go Gordon! Can't wait to see the quilt on display at the craft show in Brisbane.
ReplyDeleteWow! Gordon is impressed by these comments. He thinks it is great that Kath has added him to her Blog (what IS a Blog he asks?) He has also been known to help me pin a quilt.
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tell Gordon to go to www.railwaycottage.blogspot.com tomorrow morning (british time!) and there he will be! Kath
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