I’m loving this layout for hexagons. The gingham is a great way to keep the look uniform, but bright and cheerful.
The border is a great idea too, and not just just to cut down on piecing time. I love how it compliments the hexagons and adds to the “flower garden” theme.
This was definitely made by a quilter with a gift for fabric. Check out the cute items in her etsy shop – when you’re through admiring the hexes, that is.
Today is just one of those days where you’ll have to bear with my shoddy iphone photography. This is my latest quilty endeavor, and I want to share.
The blocks are for Ms. FreckledBeauties of the Live Piecefully Quilting Bee, and man, they were fun to make! I used the oft-shared instructions over at Film in the Fridge, an, truly, there was nothing to it.
I know everyone’s got her own preferences, but I do feel obliged to say that my favorite base for paper piecing is by far the tracing paper that comes in a tablet at the art store. My tablets are 9×12″, so the sheets are large enough to accommodate most of the piecing I do, and they’re very transparent, cheap, and tear perfectly.
I also want to mention that, if you think you like the look of string piecing based on photos you’ve seen around the internets, you don’t know the half. In person, the colors and patterns just become so breathtaking when cut down to thin strips and seamed with other fabrics.
Do yourself a favor: try out the tutorial and make yourself a throw pillow or something. Then, bask in the stringy glory. It really is fabric bliss.
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.
It’s never too early to plan ahead! If you don’t already know, the next round of Doll Quilt Swapping begins in January!
Here’s what I made for Pink Trees, my round six swap partner: paper-pieced crazy patches:
I haven’t decide whether or not to sign up. I’d be tempted to make the one above over and over again, to be perfectly honest.
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