A Quilt A Day

December 2, 2009

A new(?) setting for an old favorite.

Filed under: flickr, paper piecing — jennicakes @ 6:34 pm

Maybe I just don’t spend enough time looking at hexagon quilts, but this jumped out at me because of it’s (possibly) unusual setting:

Find more info, from the talented quilter of this lovely piece, here.

One of my works in slow progress (WISPs, to some) involves appliqueing hex flowers to plain cotton, like so:

Largely because the idea of making enough white hexes to make a respectable border between flowers makes me want to lie down in a dark room for a few days.

But the single-hex setting shown above looks not only manageable, but delightfully modern. Granted, the fabrics help with that. In any case, the quilt is stunning, and I’m sort of amazed at how much each flower stands out, even with a minimal buffer between it and the others.

If this is a totally standard setting and I’m being ridiculously trite, I apologize. But to me, this quilt seems cool and different and, for better or for worse, might get added to my to-do list.

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