Keeping myself busy this summer sewing hexagon flowers as I keep our daughter company during her physical therapy appointments. (She's recovering from a broken foot.) Here's this week's flower:
My Tammy Bag is perfect for carrying my hexagons with me. My scissors, paper templates, and fabric pieces all have their very own pocket and I can easily throw my phone and keys inside. I just grab and go.
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Do you have a "travel" project you can just grab and go? Yah know that one hand project that keeps ya busy while you wait, watch and/or travel. If you're anything like me and it's just too hard to sit and wait, I'm curious what your "grab and go" hand project might be. Is it knitting? embroidery? stitching?...please feel welcome to comment and share.
With Smiles,
Val:)
I have many projects I can grab and bring with me. Hexagons are my favorite, but I have other shapes too. Just visit my blog, and you'll see all of them. They grow a little every month, and probably I'll finish them one happy day.
ReplyDeleteYour flower is lovely and perfect for taking with you :)
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely flower. I am stuck on my hexie project at the moment, not sure what direction to head. Plenty of other projects are keeping me too busy right now. I do agree they are nice travel project.
ReplyDeleteI need to be organized enough to have something to grab!! Cross-stitch is normally my hand project when I am away from my sewing machine. But I do love your hexie flower...inspiration to start using up some of my scraps this way!
ReplyDeleteI love to have applique bits prepped and ready to take along. Always nice to feel productive when trapped and waiting. Love your purples -- such a pretty block.
ReplyDeleteI always have an EPP project to take with me. I am currently working on a star hexagon block. Five completed, many more to go!
ReplyDeleteWell, you know my last trip had me hand paper piecing tomatoes. Now I have to figure out a new project...
ReplyDeleteI do like to hand piece the round parts of a project, like drunkards path. We shall see.
Hugs
I always have to have a grab and go project for my sanity! I also like to keep a handwork project and book always in my car, you never know where you are going to be stranded somewhere and need something to keep you busy. Usually, I bring embroidery with me, but now that I have a cross stitch project going, I will likely bring it too.
ReplyDeleteCute hexie! I have an embroidery project that is my take and go and has been for well, sad to say, Years!
ReplyDeleteI love your hexie flowers! Unfortunately, I do not have a traveling project. I know I need to, but I don't do hand work. Yikes!!!
ReplyDeleteI grabbed some hand sewing to do in the car today. It keeps me awake and it is good to get it dome. I love your hexie flower
ReplyDeleteWhat a pretty flower. I like your travel kit - cute, handy and compact. I don't carry any sewing projects with me, but I currently have a book in my hand bag, with the intention of reading it if I ever have to wait anywhere. Normally I have kids to watch, though, so it remains unread :)
ReplyDeleteVery pretty hexie flower! I really like your little project bag! Very cute! If we are driving I usually take a knitting project, but if I know I am going to be sitting and waiting I take an applique project.
ReplyDeleteI am not into Hexies yet!!!
ReplyDeleteI have 3 take and go projects ATM ...
My sashiko, Japanese beading & 15th century embroidery. All of which I learnt on my cruise. I carry them around with me. Do a little at a time. They are slow going.
I love the colors in your hexie flower. I have been fortunate and lately have not needed to sit and wait anywheres-thank goodness for me-but I usually grab a book to read, but hexies are perfect to take along
ReplyDeleteVery bright and summery!
ReplyDeleteI tend to take a book rather than hand work when I have to wait on appointments.
Very pretty hexie flower and nice pouch! I am like you Valerie, I cannot just sit down without a hand project, and like you again, it's my Flower Garden hexies that I carry with me!
ReplyDeleteOooh! Teeny tiny hexies are the BEST! I started some hexies to have something to do during my daughter's recent hospital stay. But they bigger than yours. I started with a template someone had given me, and I didn't really think about size when I started. They are just hexies so far, no flowers. But we have been having fun arranging them in different ways. I just blogged about this! I will definitely be making more, smaller hexies in fun, modern colors so I always have a pick up and go project!
ReplyDeleteI'm like you...always travel with some handwork. Hexies if I'm working on a hexi project. Otherwise knitting or my needle turn applique orange peel project.
ReplyDeleteI like to have easy handwork also. I have these little tote bags that the family got at Boston Pops concerts at Boston College. Our picnic dinners were in them at each concert. They are small and easily portable. I keep crochet and cross-stitch in a few of them to grab and go. I love your hexi flower.
ReplyDeleteI always have my mini hexies with me, so easy to sew up at the doc's waiting room and although I don't know what to make with them, I know I need dozens
ReplyDeleteMost of my projects are grab and go, as I do almost everything by hand. Beautiful flower, how nice the purple and orange go together.
ReplyDeleteI love your flower with the extra layer, Val! I love the colours too!
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