ORBC Quilt-along finish!

A while back, in this post, I laid out the plans for my own version of the hexagon quilt led by Julie (Jaybird quilts) and the Old Red barn Co.



The hexagon quilt is finally finished. It has been pieced for awhile, but last month in the blazing heat I finally managed to stitch up a quilt back and this past week I finally got it quilted and bound.
I am totally loving the end result. The colors are speaking to me, so cool and calming and well, blue is my favorite color anyway, so it was hard to go wrong here.

After much debate on the final layout, I decided to go with the pointed edges following the hexagon lines and I really like the result. Usually when I design a quilt, I have the end product in my mind, so it was a bit strange to have all these blocks made and then figure out how to put them together. I think this layout works ok though.

Sewing on the binding was a bit slower because of all those points, but not too bad. This one has already been claimed by my daughter ~ no surprise there ~ green and aqua are her favorite colors.

The fabrics in this quilt are from all over and include Sandi Henderson, Heather Bailey, Valori Wells, Patty Young, Paula Prass, Tula Pink, and others.

I decided to venture out from random stipple quilting and quilt on this curvy leaf pattern. Not sure how much i'm loving this approach really. It was a LOT of work and i'm not sure it was worth it really. It looks okay but you can't really see it well on this type of quilt. Probably would've worked better on a quilt with more solid fabrics. Live and learn.


That’s the 3rd quilt finish this summer – phew!

Happy Sewing!

Pillow Talk Swap beings

Pillow {Talk} Swap round 3 has just begun. I'm kind of excited about this because it's the first swap I've ever done and perusing the samples of previous rounds makes you realize you are in the company of some great artists over there. Heather and Kerri run this flickr group/swap and they are awesome gals and quilters not to mention the many other prominent group members. Should be a ton of fun. Partners have not yet been assigned but I'm already milling over possible design ideas. My own pillow inspiration picture

~ it was tough to narrow it down because I'm pretty much inspired by everything. I can't wait to get started on this. I'll keep you guys posted on my progress.

Meanwhile, over in hexie-land, some new block options have been posted. I have pretty much already posted all of mine and I'm pretty caught up at this point. I'm not going to do the rad-ar love block, so that just leaves the basic hexie which I like and am sticking with. I'll update progress on this as I go.

Until next time, happy sewing!

Hexies week 2

... as part of the hexagon quilt-along hosted by Julie of jaybird quilts and the Old Red barn Co. Quilt along here is my progress on week 2.

I opted for this selection of aqua and green fabrics from my stash

and I made a few more than the 5 sets suggested by Julie.
That would be because I got a little over-excited with my color combos and pieced more than 5 sets of strips together ~ and also because I’m really bad about reading directions first. Directions - aren’t they optional? Well, the more the merrier right?

Here are my triangles…
(by the way, this ruler is way cool!)


…and then my hexies in a few different layouts.



I like the mixed layout the best except that the science geek in me says that this looks too much like a radiation warning symbol, and that’s not really the vibe I’m going for in this quilt – soooo, I’m going to go with classic hexagons. Actually I’m going to do more than just classic hexagons but I’ll reveal that later on. I think it will work well with the soft color palette.




spirals?
Now to sew them together. Only the halves so far…

Butterflies anyone?


...this time I read the directions before plunging ahead.


Happy Sewing!