Over the summer holidays, while we were sitting by the pool in Spain on our family holiday, I caught up on some hand sewing. I love English paper piecing and I love hexagons but I wanted to come up with something a bit more modern than the grandmother's flower garden quilts. So I printed out some equilateral triangle paper from incompetech (where you can print out all sorts of shapes, including hexagons, in any size - great for hexagon paper piecing templates), drew up some large hexagons and sub divided them into paper piecing templates to make these babies:
The fabrics are Kona white and a Kona pastels jelly roll from my friend Mandy's UK Kona solids shop and a dolce jelly roll from UK fabric shop Saints & Pinners. The only thing is I still think they're a bit boring so I've sent them to the members of one of my online bees, Busy Bees for them to have a go at making this quilt a bit less boring and samey. Can't wait to see what they come up with. Then I'm going to sash in mid-grey and voila!
The fabrics are Kona white and a Kona pastels jelly roll from my friend Mandy's UK Kona solids shop and a dolce jelly roll from UK fabric shop Saints & Pinners. The only thing is I still think they're a bit boring so I've sent them to the members of one of my online bees, Busy Bees for them to have a go at making this quilt a bit less boring and samey. Can't wait to see what they come up with. Then I'm going to sash in mid-grey and voila!
These are really lovely Lynne - and yes there is something very satisfying about hand stitching - I love doing it over the winter months, sitting watching TV with the fire blazing away in the stove
ReplyDeleteThe blocks are so beautiful! I can imagine that a lot of work went into them. I'm going to attempt a tutorial I found for hex blocks...it looked fun. Great job.
ReplyDeleteI love your hexagons. Very creative!
ReplyDeleteThese look great. Trust you to come up with such clever tricky blocks. Thanks for the shape site tip. I'm looking forward to seeing what the Bees do with these.
ReplyDeleteI must say boring is one word that didn't cross my mind! They're really gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely LOVE these!
ReplyDeleteoh wow these are gorgeous
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