Canyon Hexies Mini Quilt

Once upon a time, a girl sewed so many mini quilts that her bedroom walls started to turn into a padded room.  But her husband was a good sport.  And almost all of the mini quilts were made from stash.  And the girl found a sense of passion and excitement in making the mini quilts.  She was doing it for the process - the process of playing with colors and shapes and textures and old techniques and new techniques, and the process of tackling some comfortable designs and some challenging designs that had been on her wish list for oh so long. She loved making for the enjoyment of the process of making - it was creatively freeing and that freedom and joy filled her soul and made her artistic voice sing.  And so, this girl decided to make just one more mini quilt before the "To Do" list of projects became priority once again.

The girl had a stack of freshly basted English paper pieced hexagons (her go to hand project to keep fidgety fingers occupied during certain social settings), and so another modern hexie mini quilt project was born.  Her little boys called the shape either a fish or a dragon, but she didn't care.  It was fun to just play with the colors and shapes of the hexies and let them shine in their own way.  There didn't need to be any rhyme or reason - just the process.

And in the end, the finished mini quilt left her feeling all sorts of peace and calm coupled with inspiration and energy to continue to pursue making and creating and finding the things that make her soul sing.