do you EQ?

Yes there is an EQ Boutique for Pieced Hexies! You can find it at the My Boutique - Electric Quilt website.

No it will not teach you how to make Pieced Hexies. The program is a design tool to use with EQ7 when designing your own special quilts. Pieced Hexies can now be easily added to your creative visions. To learn the process to make Pieced Hexies you will need the book.

Yes! There is a set of tools that will soon be available that will make the process of marking the Alignment Guides on your hexies faster and accurate. .....and yes there are many more patterns to come.... Thank you for your time, your interest, and for your purchase of Pieced Hexies!

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My Hotel Studio

Yesterday I posted the "traveling studio" pic on my facebook page and received a few inquiries about exactly what is in this box.

So last night with things spread out some more and a medium dresden plate basted I took another pic.

I would be lost without this 6x8 box on the road. At the end of each day when back in the hotel room I can hardly wait to open it and begin to play. I always keep lots of scraps in it as I never know what I might feel like playing with. And as you can see I am playing with dresden plates this trip. The needlethreader is my best friend late at night. And the little pincushion is made with a soda cap as it's base. It was an entry gift over 15 yrs ago at a local quilt show. Blunt nose scissors to make TSA agents happy and a variety of threads. Last night I was dreaming of Christmas.....

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Flying...it's the thrill of the journey

No matter how many times I board a plane I am like a small child and am thrilled when I scoot into the window seat.  

I absolutely love to fly.  My first flight in life was at the old age of 18. 
I think my gram could count the total number of times she flew on one hand.
 
And then I think of how many times Paul & Emily have flown before 18. 

Wow...times change.

This morning I am off to Texas to spend the next few days with the Quilter's Guild of Plano Texas

....by the time this blog posts I will be at baggage claim....

....so for now I am just going to gaze out the window a bit more....and  daydream.

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it’s a Halloween Pieced Hexies Parade!

 

Join the “Pieced Hexies with Mickey Depre”  Facebook Fan Page.

My vision for this page is a place to share all things Pieced Hexies.

That being said I am announcing a

 

Pieced Hexies Halloween Parade

This is your heads up so you can get your “costume” ready for the parade in that will begin on October 10th.

Yes a parade of Halloween themed Pieced Hexies! 

 

 

You can use Halloween fabrics or

 

 

 

 

Halloween Colors (orange, black, purple, green) …

 

 

 

just make a Pieced Hexie design from the Pieced Hexies book that

screams HALLOWEEN 

 

Post a pic on the Facebook Fan Page between midnight Oct 10th and midnight Oct 24th CST.

 

….on to the prize!

On Oct 25th in the wee hours of the morning I will use a random number generator to determine the winner of the following:

 

An 8x11 size bag stuffed with hand dyed scraps perfect for making bewitching hexies!

 

So heads up…start creating your “Pieced Hexie Halloween Costume” and join in the fun!

And yes you can post more than one Halloween Pieced Hexie for multiple entries!

 

Can’t wait to see the Parade of Halloween Pieced Hexies beginning on Oct 10th!

Trouble is brewing.....

October!  Yes this Autumn lovin' girl is happy happy happy!  

I think I will celebrate this first day of October by "stirring up trouble" in the studio.   

Some dresden plate paper pieces followed me home from Petals & Blooms Quilts & Needlework booth at the Heritage Quilters Guild show last weekend....this morning I took them out of their sealed bag.

....rut roh....now they are chatting with my scrap bins...

....trouble is brewing.....  ")

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Shhhhh…..it’s a secret…..

 

I have been sewing and creating like crazy these last few weeks.

Four different projects! 

And all are to be kept under wraps.…..well not all…. so finally I have something to share.

I have teamed up with Quilting on the Square in Holton Kansas to design a Block of the Month Quilt.   Last May during my visit Mark & Mary (owners) planted the seed of an idea and in June I sat down and designed “Moxie Girl”.

Last week I few out and spent 3 days with Mary, Connie, Becky & Jo pulling fabrics, auditioning fabrics, and sewing…sewing…sewing.   It was a lot of work but it was fun.  And watching Moxie Girl come together was thrilling for me. 

The first colorway (I have been told there will be 3) started off with Mary suggesting a lovely orangey yellow Kaffe fabric.  It is understated and to me it just screams a 40’s bark cloth print.  And that was exactly what I had in mind. 

Pair it up with a yellow polka dot, another Kaffe, some civil war prints, throw in some traditionals and a  dash of batik, shake well and you have “Moxie Girl!”.

Moxie? you ask what does Moxie mean?

 

 

Yes there is an east coast soda named Moxie…but we are thinking attitude.

Moxie is a slang word from the 30s that means adventurous, pep, vigor, backbone, grit, guts, gumption…..you get the picture.

 

We were so excited by what was coming together in front of us that Mary caved (we love ya Mary!) and said go ahead and share.   I couldn’t hit the send button fast enough on my phone and put up a sneak peak pic on my facebook page.  (note we have since changed the center fabric choice)

And then I went to bed.  And when I woke up my fb inbox was jammed with inquires about Moxie Girl.  Apparently it was well received.

Here are a few more sneak peaks.  

        This quilt combines Pieced Hexies, Paper Pieced Hexies, traditional piecework and paper piecing and either machine or hand applique (your choice and easy peasy shapes).  It has everything in it in small amounts so it will be a lot of fun as a BOM project as each month will be an adventure.  Kinda “Moxie-ish”? 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I designed the spikey paper pieced hexie and Mary designed the rose colored paper pieced hexie…so this is truly a joint designed quilt!

The borders are being worked on as I type and hopefully we will have a completed quilt up for you in a week or so on the Quilting on the Square website. Mary has set up a page for Moxie Girl under the BOM section and if you want to get in on the information email blasts that will go out alerting you to new colorways posted, cost start date etc. then fill out the form on the page. You can bypass the credit card info by simply hitting pay by check. There is NO CHARGE this is simply for information there is NO OBLIGATION.

Today I will be quilting another secret project…who knows what might be released to my FB friends over the weekend…. 

 

p.s. I never did get back to the Hexie House in Holton with a book…I most definitely will on my next visit…which I suspect will be sooner rather than later!

p.p.s.  You can always find out what I am hexing on my Facebook Fan Page “Pieced Hexies with Mickey Depre”   come join us!

It's a Hexie House!

THIS BLOG IS A FEW DAYS OLD...GUESS WHO FORGOT HER BLOG PASSWORD WHILE ON THE ROAD.  New blog tomorrow. 

Quilting on the Square
Holton, Kansas

That's where I am for the next few days sewing away with friends until my booking signing event on Saturday.

This morning I walked the neighborhood in search of this very special house that Mark & Mary (QOS owners...and the nicest people) showed me last night. 

A Hexie House!   My Blogger app only allows one phone upload per post so check out the Pieced Hexies Fan Page on Facebook for more pics.

I think I need to leave a book on the front porch! 

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