Making Progress - Hexagons

So I made 78 Hexies!  I think I have become a convert to glue basting.  When I was drafting some Snowflake designs using Hexagon pieces and the quantity required to make some of them was 60, 78 and 90 pieces I knew I was going to have to find a faster way of making these than regular thread basting.  During our Thursday night sewing session we all agreed glue might be the way to go so I googled "glue baste hexagon quilt" and found lots of stuff.   The tutorial I ended up using is by Piece O'Cake and involves glue basting with the Sewline glue pen.

I bought a Sewline pen last October at the Knitting & Stitching show in Dublin.  I tried to use it to hold an applique piece in place and it was rubbish for that so it stayed in my notions bag in the original box for a whole year.  I have since found that it is perfect for glue basting hexies and will be buying refills at this years show which is being held in a few weeks time. 

My plan was to bring these with me to the West Coast of Ireland during the bank holiday last Monday week and hand sew them into snowflakes!  I'm hoping to do some straight line quilting and applique the pieced shapes in place on Christmas coloured fabric to make some placemats for the centre of the dining table.

I got distracted by making the most of the shorter days, now the clock has gone back, and spent as much time on the beach and coastal walks with the dogs. 

Wilbur loved it though I don't think picking his way through the rocks at high tide was his favourite part!  Not a hint of any epilepsy though we had the valium the vet prescribed with us just in case. 

This weekend though I decided I'd better crack on with this project as the demo for our guild is 2 weeks away!  I  decided on the layouts above to motivate me to get on with the hand sewing and after messing about with tiny Hexagons for a bit, procrastination got the better of me and I decided to take a break and made up a few larger ones for Christmas trees.  

For the hand sewing night at our guild on the 13th, I'm going to show the option of one pieced tree and a more modern version with the hexies spaced out a bit, inspired by this tutorial I have loved and wanted to have a go at Modern Handcraft.

It always amazes me how flexible a hexagon shape can be!  Forgive the non-ironed background fabric, I've been going through my stash looking for a nice frosty blue and I think this works! 
So a bit of work to go yet but despite dragging my heels a bit, its going pretty quickly and I hope I'll get these done this week as I have to finish writing up instruction sheets for them (will share them here soon) and bee blocks to get to too!