I'm Bringing Hexie Back

My go-to quilting project has always been (and will always be) Hexies.  There is something so soothing about basting these little suckers that just makes me happy.

I have a lot a hexies.  You're thinking: So do I!  No, I have A LOT of hexies. Making them helps me relax and de-stress.  After a trying day at work I will sometimes prop myself up in bed and baste hexie after hexie after hexie.

A small sample of some of my hexies

At one point in my quilting journey, hexies confused me.  After all, my Mom hand sewed roughly 20 hexie quilts with no basting or paper, why do I have fiddle with that stuff?  The answer: because I'm not my mom and she had been quilting for so long she could literally envision a perfect 1/4" seam on each hexie as she added them to her project.

So I started basting hexies...badly.  I tried glue sticks and couldn't get the glue undone afterwards.  I tried heavy cardstock for sturdiness and had trouble stitching the hexies together.  What's a girl to do? Search Instagram and the Internet and find someone who knows exactly what they are doing!

This is how I first stumbled across Lori Holt several years ago.  After reading her awesome post on basting hexies, something clicked in my head and I got it!
If you need a refresher or just a new way to baste your hexies, take a peek at her tutorial here.

Basting Hexies the Lori Holt way

Fast forward to today and I have hexies up to my eyeballs!  Because I don't hexie with any sort of project in mind.  I hexie because I love it and because sometimes you just need to relax and stitch.

I have several hexie projects in the works currently and I'm sure I'll have more and more and more as time goes on.  I will share a couple of finished projects and some WIPs soon.