Last week I was busy working on a gift, so no pictures until later.  However I did find time in the evenings for hand stitching the hexies for Starry Night.

All 10 of the full hexie flowers are completed, so now they are being stitched onto the background.  I am also working on the 4 half-hexie flowers.

One of my favorite things to do at a thrift store is pick up old quilt books especially the series Great American Quilts by Leisure Arts.  I am always on the lookout for different or unusual quilt blocks and I found one in the Great American Quilts 1993.  The name of the block is Texas Star.

Isn’t it great?  It really wasn’t difficult to piece although you need to be gentle with the bias.  The plan is to make 6 blocks to form a star.

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Marlene

Call me Tiggr – I have been bouncing around from project to project.  First up – another Starry Night Hexie has been completed.  This is number 6 out of 10 full hexagon flowers for the wallhanging.

Each one is an adventure with a surprise at the finish.

Two more Sylvia’s Bridal Sampler blocks have been added to design wall.

A-7

N-9

My first thought was to alternate dark red & green cornerstones in the sashing. However I knew it was a mistake as soon as I saw it on the design wall – too dark & too distracting.

What if the cornerstones were a different fabric close in color to the sashing strips?

The cornerstone fabric isn’t noticeable from a distance, but is a nice surprise upon closer inspection.  Only two more blocks until the top row is completed and a sashing row attached.

Have a good weekend,

Marlene

I had forgotten how much I enjoyed sewing hexies until I did the hexie block for Sylvia’s Bridal Sampler.  Before the block was even finished I had planned my next EPP project.

It all started with this pattern from American Patchwork & Quilting website

and this fabric.

My piece of Starry Night fabric was 51″ long and contain 6 repeats at 8″.  I cut the fabric Stack-n-Whack fashion to make 18 groups of 2 1/2″ squares for 10 full hexagon flowers, 4 half flowers and 4 cornerstones.

Each grouping is the start of a new adventure of design.

A pale yellow batik is going to be the background.

This project is small wallhanging size at 27 1/2″ x 34 1/2″.  I wonder what tonight’s design will look like.

There may have been a bit of this going on also.

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Marlene