Here are my hexagons before they are cut out. I they are about 2" hexagons.
I then cut them out carefully & pin them to the wrong side of the fabric.
Then comes the fun part of basting them. I don't baste through the paper as I don't want to have the extra step of taking out the basting later. I like the basting part except my thimble is to small. So I need to get a new thimble.
So now I have piles of hexagons basted on the fabric.
So there that is all my hexagons at the moment. They are from reclaimed fabric, donated scraps, and stuff I had on hand. My goal in doing this is to not buy any fabric new. I find that reclaiming fabric from pillow cases picked up at thrift stores great resource. I also discovered that you can buy scraps on ETSY reasonably priced so I'm going to check that out.
Now I need ideas. I don't want to do a flower quilt. I want to do more of a colour blocking idea. So all the blues together, red, green etc. More like a rainbow. However I'd like to start sewing some of the hexagons together, but should I wait until I have more? Should I get OCD about it & have a plan. Or should I just start grabbing blues & sewing them together? Keep all dark together? Mediums together? Lights together?
HELP!!!!! What would you do?
7 comments:
FLOWERS would be perfect. Could I get you to email me the paper outline for the hexagons? I've been wanting to make one of these and don't have a good template! Do you leave the paper in the fabric?
Yeah i just started doing flowers. So right now working on blue flowers, but I'm just randomly grabbing colours as I do want it to have a scrappy look. Here is the site where I got the instructions & template
http://www.ciaspalette.com/patterns/06/englishhexagons.html
I can't give you any suggestions cause I don't know anything about quilting, but it look pretty cool so far. I love that you are using recaimed fabric.
@additionsstyle ~ hey no worries! i love using reclaimed fabric too!
These are really beautiful. I can't wait to see what you decide to do with them!
They're so cute!! I planned on making one flower at a time but I love your piles. :-)
@ ariel i'm doing like a rainbow quilt so all colours in their own section sort of. i'm in the process of sewing them together & will post a WIP pic tomorrow.
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