Ooh-la-la!
This last little while, not only have I been playing florists with the arranging plonking of flowers into pretty receptacles.........and fashioning concoctions of couture, drink-in-the-fragrance-of-real floral fancies for dress mannequins; I have been playing with pretty fabrics, too. Would you believe I have begun another hexie quilt. Yes, I have. This gal can never have too many hexie quilts. As hexie quilts are my all-time favourites and I haven't stitched one this year I was itching to fashion another of these pretties which includes a little EPP stitching.
Behind the glass doors of my armoire are many fabrics which have never been showcased in one quilt. Fabrics, I think, that need to have their beauty shine. Fabrics that have not been used for a very long time. This quilt is going to be a simple patchwork one. Each square will be a different floral fabric, as the background for a pretty hexie rosette-type flower dancing among the flowers. It is going to ooze with busy-ness, spilling over with colour, pattern and my very favourite thing......flowers. I will be stitching this hexie quilt as well as ensuring more flowers are 'growed' on my big girl's, garden quilt. As you know, working on more than one pretty at any given time is how I roll.
Are not these little 'hexie' blossoms sweet?? I love the rounded petals of each flower.
Love, love, love the explosion of floral patterns! My eyes crinkle with a smile just looking at each exuberant, floralicious square. I must say, these pretties do bedeck the blossom tree beautifully.
It is a sunny Sunday here today. The sun is shining as it smiles upon the flowers in the garden. The daffodils and jonquils are past their best and have passed the flower baton over to the bluebells, rhododendrons irises, granny bonnets, forget-me-nots and other such pretties. Aah....spring in Tassie is a joy for all the senses. Wherever one goes, spring is singing the sweetest song. Can you hear it??
Thank you for visiting my little spring place. I hope you have the loveliest of days enjoying something you love. As for me I am going to snatch a few moments this afternoon enjoying a little hexie stitching; perhaps in the garden listening to the mellifluous song that only spring can sing.......♪♫♬♩......ahh....such bliss♥
Until the next time.......
Linking this week to Kathy's, Slow Sunday Stitching at Kathy's Quilts.
Hi Kim wow what a wonderful colourful post,your garden is amazing and your work is so beautiful,love your floers,hope you have a wonderful day my friend xx
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful post Kim. How gorgeous everything looks. I wish I lived next door to you ... instead of watching you out my window dragging all your bits & bobs into the garden - I could come & help you!! I adore your ricrac clothes line with your hexie squares on it. Today is beautiful here too - I have returned from a 2nd trip to Mums & am enjoying this wonderful spring day - have been in my garden & the Tui's are singing to me. Wishing you a happy Sunday dear friend xxx
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely gorgeous! Magnificent!This post is to die for...Fabulous flowers,unique vignettes!Made my whole week!
ReplyDeleteSo happy to add a little smile to your week, lovely Maristella. Thank you so much for your beautiful visit♥ Kim Xx
DeleteWhat?? How can it be spring there already?? What a treat for the eyes even though I have just begun to enjoy the fall season here. I've already decided that I can never find the right words to describe your gorgeous creations. But you know I love them!! Hugs to you, dear Kim!
ReplyDeleteHow colorful and bright is your Spring !!!!!!
ReplyDeleteFull of beautiful creations made by Nature and You !!!!
Thanks for sharing those beauties !!!
Here, we have Fall, Fall, Fall...Fall ;)
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Thanks for your kind visit.
Anna
Hi Kim so lovely to see all your wonderful spring flowers, love your new hexagon quilt.
ReplyDeleteHope you have a wonderful day stitching in you lovely garden
Best wishes Kay c xx
I enjoyed some lovely stitching while sitting in the garden, Kay. Sunday afternoons, in the garden on a warm and sunny spring day is always a most beautiful way to while away some moments. Thank you for your sweet thoughts, lovely lady. Kim Xx
DeleteSuch gorgeous pictures of your beautiful garden, your floral lady! and I love the stitched chair. As a great fan of the hexie myself, and floral fabrics, I adore your new project. Those blocks are stunning! xx
ReplyDeleteI love love love visiting your new posts ! Your photography meets imagination meets reality skills are amazing Kim! I always leave your blog posts feeling enlightened and inspired. Thanks for that! Kathi
ReplyDeleteOh my the tea pot filled with flowers on top the books is my favorite. I love sipping tea while I read. Always love seeing your beautiful photos and projects.
ReplyDeleteAS we've anxiously awaited a touch of Fall here in the northern hemisphere, I can't help but sigh at the sight of Spring! It is, above Fall, my favorite season. I love the awakening!
ReplyDeleteFall and Spring, each in their own way an explosion of colours, aren't they. Though, I rather love Summer. Love all that collapse-onto-the-floor-fainting-with-heat-stroke, type of heat. =) Enjoy your Fall, lovely Rita. Kim Xx
DeleteAnd here we are in South Texas, USA just hoping we get a hard winter! We had 4 months of horrible 100+ degree weather! But your flowers are beautiful!
ReplyDeleteSuch pretty flowers and projects! We are heading into Autumn, and it is still too warm for the leaves to change. I cannot wait for it to cool off!!
ReplyDeleteSuch a delightful array of flowers both real and fabric. What joy, especially as it hasn't stopped raining in my part of the uk for days!
ReplyDeleteYes, I do hear that Tassie spring song though that's all because of you, lovely friend in Tasmania. Your pictures speak/sing volumes though your words are like sugar and cinnamon on a piece of toast. Thank you for sharing...especially since we're having a taste of winter when we wake with frost on the pumpkin and other fall foliage.
ReplyDeleteWow it is always such a pleasure to come to your colorful blog! You have so many gorgeous spring flowers blooming now. We had a hot summer and there weren't many blooms so this is quite a change. Your hexagon quilts are amazing. I haven't made a single one.
ReplyDeleteOh how beautiful! The stitched chair is so pretty! I love the hexie flower blocks blowing in the breeze on the ricrac line!
ReplyDeleteAs the yellows, oranges, reds and browns of Autumn burst forth here, it is comforting to remember that the luscious shades of your spring flowers will return to us in good time. I still have a lavender Clematis in bloom and the dahlias are soldiering on as we haven't had a killing frost yet. Having your beautiful flower hexies to look forward to will help make the cold and dreary months more tolerable. Thank you for another inspiring post.
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I just love this post, just seeing Spring blossom all around you while here in the Northern Hemisphere we are putting out gardens to bed for the autumn and winter's rest, though here in Florida we don't get much in the way of Autumn or Winter. Your floral blocks are amazing I just want to reach out and caress each one.
ReplyDeleteYour floral squares are fabulous!
ReplyDeleteI love seeing your gorgeous pictures, flowers and quilts! We are just cooling down from summer, and welcome temps in the 70's to 80's this week!
ReplyDeleteHappy Sunday Kim. This post is a rainbow of color and beauty. Your garden is deliciously gorgeous. Have fun working on your next Hexie quilt.
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Thank you, lovely Marion. I am having oodles of fun with this hexie quilt. Hope you enjoy a beautiful week, lovely lady. Kim Xx
DeleteI like your thinking: those hexies on floral backgrounds will make a wonderful, rich quilt. Your beautiful spring pictures gave me a brief smile as I contemplate our coming winter.
ReplyDeleteSpring! So many lovely colors. And I know that pictures of your garden will keep me warm all winter. :-)
ReplyDeleteLove love love all those beautiful floral pictures. It is the start of Fall here in Canada, a different kind of burst of colours all around. Knowing snow and winter is not far away makes me like your pictures more!!
ReplyDeleteYour new hexies blocks look divine, just like a Spring garden bursting into flower. Guess that is the look you are after and we will all love sharing in the progress as you stitch along.
ReplyDeleteYour flowers are beautiful. Love the quilt you are working on. Have a lovely Sunday. Here in new York the leaves are falling. Unfortunately, there is not much color because there has not been much rain. The leaves are mostly brown. Autumn is my favorite season.
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That is a bit sad, Marilyn, that there is not much colour for you this Autumn. I would think New York would be oozing glorious hues at the moment. You love Autumn....I love Spring. Both seasons paint the landscape with glorious colour. Thank you for your beautiful visit. I hope you enjoy a fabulous week. Kim Xx
DeleteI love all your flowers, both the real and the made ones.
ReplyDeleteThank you for a most delightful spring outing! Your feathered and four-footed friends seem to be enjoying the season also ;-) The floral fabrics are a lovely reflection of all the blooming beauties that abound in your corner of the world. How very clever to have a ric rac line to hang your pretties for us to enjoy!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous pictures as always and the stitching in the chair is a great idea!
ReplyDeleteNever ever have I seen so many luscious colors! I just love it all, but my very favorite pictures are of the squares "bedecked" in the blossom tree.
ReplyDeleteThat's the thing about Spring, there are so many "luscious" colours everywhere. I think my bedecked blossom tree photos are my favourite, too. Thank you for your beautiful visit. Kim Xx
DeleteO Kim, your post makes me smile, spring is my best season. Seeing all those beautiful flowers makes my day good.
ReplyDeleteYou're going to make a beauty of a quilt again?
I think the square with the violets is so sweet.
Dear greetings from Holland,
Loes
Yes, I am going to make a flower-filled quilt.....again. =) I am afraid I have an addiction for these quilts. So happy my flowers have cheered your day, Loes. So thankful for your beautiful visit and sweet comments. Kim Xx
DeleteI know that you are beyond happy with Springtime arriving. I truly can just about hear you singing from your place to mine. I know, at least, I feel your happiness in my heart. Your blossoms are so colorful and oh my, another hexie quilt that we will get to see the results of. I loved the progress so far as it’s happily strung in your sunshine. Your magical hands are never idle! 💕
ReplyDeleteOh Wow Kim, such a lovely sampling of such beautiful flowers, to have the world awake in such gorgeous colors and texture is such a miracle isn't it. Oh my you know I love hexies too, although I haven't tried one myself yet, but i do love those gorgeous rounded hexie flowers you have made to go on the quilt, they are beautiful! So wonderful to see the projects you are working on!
ReplyDeleteKim, I'm always in awe of your Spring blooms!!! What a feast for the eyes! I'm looking forward to seeing your new hexie quilt. It looks like you've got a good start! We have recently returned from a trip to the Holy Land, so I'm a bit behind on my visits. Trying to catch up and get a little post up on the blog myself. Enjoy that beautiful spring weather, dear friend!!
ReplyDeleteWhat divine pictures of flowering and blooming spring crowned with your fabric pretties Kim! A pure delight for the eyes!
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, your flowers and gardens are gorgeous! Did you cross stitch the flower on your cane chair yourself? How wonderful is that? Secondly, your new quilt is going to be a real beauty. I just love your hexie flowers on the different backgrounds. And the fussy-cutting... masterful! Enjoy your spring!
ReplyDeleteOh, how lovely to have you visit...thank you. Yes, I happened upon the sweet little cane chair in a thrift shop and gave it a lick of paint and cross stitched pansies onto it. It is a pretty little thing. It lives in my 'boudoir'. I am always on the lookout for another cane pretty to cross stitch but they are as rare as hens' teeth around here. I do live in hope, though. As for my hexies, though busy, which is a look I love, I rather love all the playfulness of the different floral fabrics. I am a more-is-never-enough kinda gal. =) I always love a profusion of colour and pattern. Thank you for your beautiful comments. You have made me skip through my spring-filled day. Kim Xx
DeleteKim - where one door closes, another opens - in this case, the door to your glorious garden. I feel fortunate that I do not have to wait until Spring comes to Montana - I can enjoy it through you! I especially like the pictures with the vases on top of the stack of books - wonderful composition! Enjoy the rest of your week!
ReplyDeleteIt will certainly be awhile before we see tulips and dafoldils here- enjoy the beauty around you! Blessings...
ReplyDeleteYour blog is a breath of fresh air - brought joy to my heart on a day I surely needed such a blessing. Your photographs are so beautiful and colorful - and filled with life and hope. Thank you for sharing such a joyful blessing!
ReplyDeleteSo lovely to have a glimpse of Spring in your beautiful post. I'm very envious! And I love your new hexie flower creations. I especially like those rounded edges. It suits them perfectly :)
ReplyDeleteO my goodness, Kim. Yes, I can hear your spring singing from here with bountiful, flowering inspiration. :)
ReplyDeleteI love the hexie flowers.
It is a sweet song, the song of Spring, isn't it Dixie. I would imagine you are singing along to your autumnal song. =) Thank you for your sweet visit, lovely lady. KimXx
DeleteHi Kim! I still don't really "get" how to do English paper piecing. I must watch a YouTube video or two! Your hexagons are so pretty! I love the way you LOVE colors and you mix them so well! Yay for spring! Fall for us. It's getting chilly. Take care, sweet friend!
ReplyDeleteOh my! Such beauty to behold all in one post! I just love the tiny white flowers in the first picture....what are they and I must have them?! Your new hexie quilt is so gorgeous. I would love just a banner of those beautiful squares to hang in my garden.....I love how that looks. Thanks for visiting me on my one post of the year :-)
ReplyDeleteA joy to see your colourful corner of the world, gorgeous flowers, fabrics and hexies. Another pretty quilt in the makings.
ReplyDeleteYour garden is alive!!! The colours are jumping out all over the place and what a gorgeous place to be. I love hexies, they always look happy. lol. I know...I sound crazy but they're so cute. A beautiful week to you also my friend. xx
ReplyDeleteEach hexie flower is just so pretty in it's own right. I'm so glad you take the time to photograph all those pretty flowers and set up all those photo shoots.
ReplyDeleteGo ahead - rub it in that you're enjoying spring. Seriously - I love the hexxies with that sweet little curve.
ReplyDeleteso much deliciousness!!! your spring appears to be popping up fabulously, the colors you shared are so beautiful!!
ReplyDeletethe fabrics you choose and the way you quilt them together and present them is perfection!! it is a sunny fall day here today, i am still enjoying some roses and the mums are in full bloom. soon everything will be asleep, while everything will be so alive for you!!!
I could spend a very happy afternoon in your garden, Kim, browsing through that pile of books and admiring your blooms. Might want to do some crafting while I'm there, inspired by your amazing wash-line of squares. I hope there will be cake.
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The garden is looking lovely already as are the hexie flowers. I like the rounded edges, they do look wonderful!! Have fun in your flower and fabric gardens.
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