This quilt came together without a hit- wait. There was a hitch. I didn't buy enough fabric to make the back just solid polka dots - which is what I wanted.
But the back turned out cute anyway.
Don't you love the obligatory husband-holding-up-quilt shots?
I have sewn almost all my quilts this way - with two top-stitches on either side of the seams and I like it but I'm sick of it. This photo is one of the more 'perfect' looking intersections too, not all of the quilt looks like this - oh not nearly!
I would love, love, love to make a hexagon quilt next, but I have no idea how. I also have strong suspicions that I don't have nearly enough patience.
I should take a course.
2 comments:
I love it!!! Such a fun design. I love that foxy fabric.
I was feeling the need to do something crafty, so last night I dug out an old embroidery kit that was a gift that I never started, and I start it. I'll finish it someday, I'm sure.
Great job! And I have made one hex quilt by hand (yuck - it was very small) and one by machine. It involved sewing triangles into hex halves and then laying them out, finding the rows so that you were only sewing a half to another half done a line and when you put the rows together the halves matched back up... Not too difficult but I pinned and went slowly so that my points more or less looked good.
There's a way to do it by machine using full hexagons and marking little dots in the corners for pivoting when you sew the rows which has a lot of stops and starts but it's probably faster than triangles and half-hexes. I think Jacquie Gering has a tutorial somewhere. If I find the link, I'll send it to you. :-)
PS - your teeth are looking straight and bitey!
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