My Favorite Shape
Aug 11, 2006 Quilting
Quilting is all about shaps. During my short quilting career (I seriously started quilting in 2002), I’ve adoped a favorite shape: The Hexagon.
Why do I like the hexagon? It can be divided into two (half-hexagon), three (diamonds), or six (triangles) pieces.
When the shapes are colored with different values, optical illusions appear. Quilts based on the hexagon have a lot of visual appeal.
Personnally, my experience with hexagons is limited to hexagon table decorations and my work-in-progress charm quilt. I see more hexagons in my future.
Here are some links to beautiful quilts based on the hexagon:
A Field of Flowers
Aug 3, 2006 Quilting
A finished a quilt. Yes! The binding took forever to attach. I guess I needed better movies from Netflix. Then I needed to wash it. I broken down and used pencil to make some of the quilting designs. The marks washed out. Finally, I hung the quilt for a snapshot.
In the “Back Room”, I have a quilting hanging. I temporally removed it so I could snap a picture of this quilt. I really need to paint my walls an interesting color.
Over all I’m happy with this quilt. I used a pattern from Bareroots. The pattern doesn’t have a border nor scalloped edges. After making the center, I decided it needed more. I wanted to try something different. The white border has a lot of quilting. I really wanted to highlight my quilting. The plain white fabric matches the plain white fabric I used on the blocks. The quilting looks good. In the future, I’d at least use a tone-on-tone print. It would add my interest to the quilt.
I’ve wanted to do scalloped edges for a long time. I didn’t have instructions, I just did it. I need to think through the process and write up the instructions. It would be good for future endeavors. I like the finished look of piping and striped binding on the bias. I plan on using that again.
The quilt doesn’t have a final purpose. For the moment it will be stored in the closet. I need to find a proper use for it.
Now on to another project.
