This is my 100th post. All the updating about redoing my studio has gotten me here alot faster than I thought. I started this blog in 2006 when I was working on my challenge quilt for the Village Squares Quilters show. The challenge quilt was Underwater Maddness. It was alot of fun working on it and by starting this blog I was able to share this fun project with my daughters who live over 3,000 miles away from me.
The blogging world has also helped me feel more connected with my extended family and friends. I have also found many fun sites that I love to read and see what quilting adventures others are working on.
This past week-end I completed the design for the newest in my line of Hexabags. I am teaching a workshop in Connecticut in October and wanted an easier (less folded hexagons) project. (See some of the other Hexabags on the past posts.) With this new project (only 2 folded hexagons) I think that most of the students should go home with a completed hexabag at the end of the workshop.
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2. “Spring Fever” Hexabag pattern
3. “On the Go” Hexabag pattern
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I just found your blog. Great info and wonderful pictures. Love your bags. I’ll check back! Claudia
Love your new bags. would look good in Texa.. dandk1@windstream.net
Love, love, LOVE the Hex bag!! Congrats on the grandkids coming for a visit, too. Have lots of fun, and have some wonderful memories with them. 🙂 Happy
100th post!
Viv
Ohhhh, I wish I could go to one of your workshops. The bag is fantastic. I had some bizzar thoughts about a play on words with your hexabag. not sure why, but the name got me thinking dark thoughts. If you made it out of some voodoo headhunter fabric it could “carry” some kind of “hex”. weird, eh? I guess I’ve been thinking too much about what to do with some Halloween fabric I have sitting here. Happy 100th post. see you on the yahoo lists too!
jean
Congratulations on your 100th post. I love reading your updates. Just love the hex bags – so unique!
Susan
sgalasso@triad.rr.com
Wow, I love your 9/11 quilts and to involve so many in the making of them, how wonderful!
Congrats on your 100 blog post! Now you’ve got me wanting to do the same, that means posting daily to catch up!
Denise Clason
You are so dedicated to your blog – mine is in great need of care – I love the bags – what neat Christmas gifts they would make & neat bags are all the rage
ra in ia (with MS)
Congratulations on your 100th blog post.I really adore your hexagon bags . Soooooooooo cute !!!!!!!!
Big hugs from Belgium
Happy 100th post. I got started reading and spent a very long time on your blog. The Alaska pictures are fantastic. jackier123@hotmail.com
Hi Mary Ann, I’m Ruthie in Israel. I arrived on your blog via Cyber Quilters. Beautiful photos of Alaska, I hope you had a great time. I would love one of your bag patterns. You can contact me via: ruthie8@bezeqint.net
Thank you and warm hugs from Israel. Ruthie
congrats on your 100th post
Wow, yet another hexagon design that I had not seen before. Wonderful!! I collect quilts made with hexagons, its an obsession, I guess. Now I will have to make one of your wonderful bags as well. I do a guild program on one-patch quilts, with emphasis on hexagon shapes. What fun it will be to add your great bag to my trunk show. Congratulations on a great blog. I so enjoyed reading it and looking at the pictures. Reeze H
Hi Mary Ann-just read your blog and added you to my favorites. I don’t blog, but, sure enjoy others.
I have a B.C. Canada penpal and that new bag design would like nice on a trip there. Grin. I can’t imagine living in an attic in NYC without a/c.
Mary Anne. Hearty congratulations on your milestone post. I love the design of the HexBag, it is a winner.
Good morning! I would like to put my name in for your draw please – your bags are gorgeous!
Hugs,
Kerry
kerrykatiecakeskeb43@gmail.com
Congratulations on your 100th post! I just learned about blogging last year so kudos to you. Also the bags are adorable…wished I had one.
I am delighted to meet you Mary Anne. I saw your notice about your 100th post on the quilt teachers email list.
Your bags are fabulous, I really like the new one. Is it going to be a pattern too?
Your studio looks really nice, do you ever want to come out of the basement now?
Amy Koester
Congratulations on your 100th post! Your bag designs are really unique.
Lynn
congrats on your 100th post.. hope I can reach that milestone.. every post is well worth reading thanks for sharing.
Wow! What a neat blog. Your photos of Alaska made me want to go. & your video clips made it seem as if I were along!
I really like your Hexbags. What a neat idea. Have you ever used Inklingo by Linda Franz? W/her software you can actually print the hexes or diamonds or other shapes directly onto your fabric w/your inkjet printer!
Angelia
congrats on the blog and 100th post. the hexagon bag is so unique! Anne
congratulations on your 100th post.
Your hexbags are beautiful, I’d love to win the pattern
congratulations on your 100th post. The bags are gorgeous.
Congratulations on 100 posts. I love what you are giving away and hope you pick me for one of them.
Great blog. Love the hex bag. I really enjoyed looking at your Alaska pics.
Sylvia
Hi Mary Anne,
I was lucky enough to see your program at our Columbus Metropolitan Quilters (CMQ) meeting recently. Kudos!! I have to say “I am hexed!” I love your bags. They are so inovative.
Pati
(The Quilt Patis Lady)
Great bag Mary Anne!
I found your blog through Cyberquilters. Congrats on your 100th post! Your work is amazing!!
Congratulations on your 100th post.
The two hexabags are beautiful!
Congratulations on 100 posts! Even more exciting, a beautiful new design for the hexabag…I love it. If your daughters pick me I will surely advertise for you (wink)…if not I will have to just make my own, and advertise for you anyway! : )
Conggratulations on 100 posts! Love the bags, so different !!
Prairie and Autumn better pick me if they know what’s good for them!
Oh, I’d love to be entered into the contest! Thank you!
narilia (at) yahoo.com
Congratulations on your 100th blog post.
Love making the folded hex flowers in smaller sizes, may have to play with making larger ones to turn into bags.
Pati
paticooks@gmail.com
Wow I am so glad you lured me in. I’ve really enjoyed looking arround your site, and great grandmother made cool quilts. Definately my cup of tea. I love your free motion work too. Keep up the blogging.
Hi, Maryanne — it’s nice to know another EQG member who blogs. I think there may be several of us although the use of the Yahoo site seems very scant. Your hexabags are lovely. I’d enjoy being in the drawing [and enjoy winning even more]. I hope you’ll check out my blog some time when you aren’t preoccupied with grandchildren.
Congratulations on Blog 100!
I was excited to hear about this, as I just #80 and am starting to plan for my “anniversary”!
The Hexabags are great…different from most on the market, which is oh, so good!
Best of luck on your next 100 postings….
Sunnie
I love the hexagon bag and applaud you on post number 100!
Hi Mary Anne,
I didn’t know you were so talented! The bags are adorable. And I’m so glad to find your blog.
Congratulations on your 100th post! I’m glad that you sent this to the NSQG group. It’s a very cute pattern.
😀 eirdre
Hi Mary Anne,
I see that you have designed another purse…it is cute. I didn’t know you had this blog. You are one busy person. You are doing better then I to have 100 posts on your blog!
Peggy
So Fun! I love the bags and all your creativity.
Congratulations on your 100th post!
Angeline Whitworth-Pace
What a fun idea and cute bag.
I’m up for a give-away. Congrats on the 100th post. I wonder how many I’ve done… I’ve not checked in a while. ~jen~
What a great blog, I am glad I found it! Congratulations on your 100th post!
Pam
http://www.buttonholequiltdesign.com
What an accomplishment, Mary Anne, both reaching your 100th post and continuing to innovate with the bags. They are spectacular on the post and even moreso in person.
What fun bags! Congratulations on your 100th post.
Happy 100th post Mary Anne. I have been enjoying your blog and love your new bags.
Jeannie
Here I am Mary Anne, commenting on your 100th post. Congratulations on getting here and I love the new bag design!
Teri