A few weeks ago while on Instagram, some scrappy hexies caught my eye - and now I'm just hooked. I'm just going to take my time making these random hexie flowers and then sew them all together. They are BIG. It shouldn't take years. Maybe one year;).
I've collected bits of Liberty for years and I use it here and there in my quilts. For this project I ordered some 2" hexies, some precuts, as well as a couple "lucky dip" bundles of green and teal, from The Strawberry Thief in Australia. My "rules" for this quilt (and rules can be broken) is that each hexie flower contain some green and/or teal somewhere. Here is a good tutorial from Strawberry Thief.
Apples have nothing to do with hexies.... 
.... except for the fact that the cardboard basket they come in, makes a great organizer for my prepped hexies. I sort of geeked out about that!
I even brought some hexies to work on during our little getaway earlier this week to Okinawa:
With cases of COVID rising somewhat in Tokyo we had mixed feelings about going, but we did it. The hotel/resort took really good social distancing measures. We were insanely careful the whole time and so was everyone around us.
Airport was all but empty:
We were the only two passengers on our little glass-bottom boat tour, so off came our masks:
Everywhere else, masks on, except when literally eating food (which was amazing). This seaweed called umibudo - sea grapes - was something new to me (the other item is prosciutto wrapped pineapple):
A nice getaway to celebrate our 30th wedding anniversary which is later this month. We had been looking forward to gathering our kids and new grand baby Charlotte in New Hampshire for a week but of course those plans blew up. Sigh. So this was Plan B and I think really important for David to get *out of Tokyo* for a few days.
Farewell Okinawa, hello again Tokyo. Grateful for health, employment, each other, our faraway family.
x
Cynthia
