Well, I stayed on track for the entire week -- devoting myself to hexagon piecing and workshop samples!! Happily, most of my 30 minutes sessions drew out into an hour or more!
This is the bed runner I made using 5 Rose Star blocks. I'm using this workshop to introduce my students to Marti Michell's new Crown and Kites templates.
I'm so pleased with the blend of new and old fabrics I achieved!
It's layered up and ready to quilt on Monday
And here is the stack of "sunflowers" cut with same template set that I'm piecing as part of Nathalie's "not a mystery" quilt over at Les Ouvrages de Nat
Piecing these blocks have been my sew-offs all week as I chain-piece through the set-in seams and assembly of the Rose Star blocks. There is no deadline for this quilt but the cheerful color palette makes it joy to piece on a winter day.
Next week, my focus will be a traditional hexagon reproduction quilt and getting it organized into manageable units so students in my Hexie Lovers Workshop will be able to discuss dissecting a design for construction. (There are still a few openings?!)
Stitch on!!
Mary Huey
Your bed runner looks great.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Anja -- now to get past the "how to quilt it" hurdle!?
DeleteWOW I am SOOOOOO impressed with your precision and I love what you did with the hexes. I've never attempted them but now I want to because I really can't get over how cool they look!!!
ReplyDeleteSince I learned to chain-piece through set-in seams, I'm obsessed with hexagons and their allies!
DeleteThanks for stopping by!
Both are wonderful !
ReplyDeleteThose are cheerful colours. I can see why you are enjoying playing with them so much.
ReplyDeleteThanks!! I need to work with cheerful colors during winter!!
DeleteI love those rose star blocks! Glad you had such a successful first week of the challenge, Mary!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Sarah!
DeleteWow, what gorgeous projects! those partial seams can be tricky.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Vicki -- the seams are y-seams and since I teach them a lot with Marti Michell's templates, I make them much easier than you might think.
DeleteTo add to Mary's post I'm one of her students and have used her Y-seam technique and not only has it transformed my piecing,but I entered a quilt for the Lake Farmpark Quilts 2015 show with all Y-seams, machine pieced it in about 2 weeks (and no, I wasn't working on it day and night) using Mary's methods and Martii's templates, and I won a ribbon in the show (my first ever). it's been a game changer for me, truly!
DeleteThanks, Erin!
DeleteBoth projects are wonderful, my favorite is the bed runner. Sewing y-seams with the machine is my next challenge.
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by! Conquering y-seams opens up a whole new realm of piecing possibilities, so go for it!
DeleteLove colours you've used for the bed runner! It will be even more pretty once it is quilted!
ReplyDeleteThose unique dresdons in 30s fabrics are so pretty! The hexagon blocks in the quilt you have ready to quilt are gorgeous as well.
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