I know this isn’t all that different from idea #3, but this is one of those rare occasions on which I made something to show here, so, please bear with me.
This photo of my hexy days of the week towels was the last one I took with my trusty Nikon:
You’d think that would make me love the towels a bit less, but I can’t say that’s true.
I’m aware this has only the most tenuous relation to quilts and quilting. Thankfully, most quilters I know are crafty domestic types, and I’ve always thought one of the necessities of crafty domesticity was a set of hand-embellished days-of-the-week towels. Maybe I’m way off base. But if you can’t get a little crazy during hex week, when can you?
The towels are from a Martha Stewart K-Mart set from, I dunno, 2007? They are definitely not being made any more, and more’s the pity. They are great quality, and the colors are easy to match. I’m using some of my favorite fabrics to embellish a whole set. Minus one towel. I’m missing the Saturday towel – a blessing, in that, I bought the towels to give as a gift, and now I’m forced to hang on to them. A curse in that I’m missing one-seventh of my towels!
A hex flower is a great way to get a lot of mileage out of a small amount of fabric, so if you’re looking for a project on which to squander some of your most treasured scraps, I highly recommend something like this. A hex flower can look great on any trimmed towel, so if you don’t want to go whole hog and make seven, a smaller set of 2 or 3 would make a great gift from your scrap bag.
And, if you happen to have this set of towels lying around unloved somewhere, I’d be happy to take them off your hands for you 