Pieced hexagons are little works of art. We are sharing some of our best ideas for setting them.
Pieced hexagons are little works of art. We are sharing some of our best ideas for setting them.
Pieced hexagons are little works of art. We are sharing some of our best ideas for setting them.
Pieced hexagons are little works of art. We are sharing some of our best ideas for setting them.
I'm not usually one to make resolutions because, like most people, I fail at them. I've just never been a goal-driven person. It's not so...
Pieced hexagons are little works of art. We are sharing some of our best ideas for setting them.
There is a new size of Inklingo diamonds to print on fabric available now to increase the possibilities for your Pieced Hexagon designs.
Pieced hexagons are little works of art. We are sharing some of our best ideas for setting them.
Pieced hexagons are little works of art. We are sharing some of our best ideas for setting them.
I saw this somewhere on the internet and saved it to my phone, so I'm not even sure where it's from, but it had me thinking. Yes, it's funny because, I too, love "lunchtime", but really what time period would I go back to? I really think I would set my time machine and travel back to the 1930's. I know, depression era...but I just love the Waltons and the simplicity of that time. Not to mention they made quilts like this!! My second time machine trip would be the late 1800's...Little House on the Prairie. Ok, I think I am completely swayed by television and once I arrived at my destinations, I would see how hard it was to live during those times and high tail it right back !! LOL How about you? Where would your time machine be set to...what place, what time period etc? Happy Thursday, ~Karen~
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While visiting my cousin last month for a little restorative rural therapy, she showed me this old baby quilt that she found in the farm house she moved into a couple of years ago. It had been stored in a plastic bag (horrors!) which is very bad for quilts. The quilt was in terrible shape, smelling of mold and mildew. She was able to gently wash the quilt and removed the smell and most of the stains. My cousin eventually figured out that it was made as a baby quilt for the previous owner of the house, who was born around 1935. I could not stop looking at this quilt! My cousin was delighted in my intense interest in her quilts since there are no other quilt lovers in her family. I could tell by getting my nose right up to it, that the hexagons were completely stitched by hand. Each flower block has a different colour in the centre and is surrounded by a round of solid fabric, then a round of printed fabric. This seems to be typical of the Grandmother's Flower Garden quilts of the 1930's (you can see some examples at Quilt Inspiration). We are so fortunate now to have a plethora of reproduction prints available, but it is really amazing to see the original 1930's prints - in person! When the quilt was washed, there was some colour bleeding around some of the hexagons, especially the oranges, purples, and reds. But it was not enough to damage the overall look of the quilt on the front, and it really only noticeable on the white backing. Look at the teeny tiny hand quilting stitches. So amazing. I am drooling at how small and even these stitches are. What a sweet experience to find such a treasure to enjoy.
This is a tutorial exploring hexagon layouts. Have a go and try to find even more layouts! Don’t worry if you don’t have a 60 degree ruler, you don’t need one if you ruler has 60 …
Morris Hexathon 21: Queen Square by Becky Brown I named this week's hexie Queen Square for a Morris home in London's Bloomsbury n...
While I was in Houston, last October, for Quilt Market, I met Katja Marek! I am a HUGE fan of Paper Pieces and their products, so naturally, I visited their booth during the show and that’s w…
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We’ve been so incredibly inspired by all of you amazing folks who are sewing along with The Splendid Sampler, a magnificent Sew Along presented by Pat Sloan and Jane Davidson, that we couldn&…
I have blogged since September 11, 2008 and on October 6, 2008 I wrote a tutorial about how to English Paper Piece hexagons using a glue stick and the freezer paper on the back of the fabric method…
Morris Hexathon 15: Kelmscott Tile by Becky Brown I named this week's hexie Kelmscott Tile for the fireplaces at Kelmscott Ma...
I'm so excited to tell you that the Hexagon Sewing Case PDF pattern is finally ready and in my shop! It's taken me a long time to get it ready because I wanted to make sure it was the absolute best it
J'ai placé une petite feutrine blanche entre les couches de matériel et j'ai fais une petite chainette tout le tour de la broderie et j'ai passé un fil par dessus, cela ressemble à un petit cordonet, je trouve cela mignon et délicat. J'ai 25 hexagones...
Most of us today would call the block "Seven Sisters." We tend to believe in some Civil War symbolism, as in this caption from the International Quilt Study Center & Museum's website: "Folklore has it that the seven stars in the block represented the first seven Southern States to secede from the United States before the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln as President on March 4, 1861." See a Missouri quilt in their collection and a photograph here: http://www.quiltstudy.org/collections/quilt_of_the_month/qom.html/title/february-2013- A quilt signed Texas Fergerson from Cindy's Antique Quilts Seven stars on a Confederate apron. I have used the name Seven Sisters as a symbol of the early Confederacy. See a post here: http://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/2011/01/3-seven-sisters.html But I couldn't find a history of that name for this particular pattern before the 1930s. Here's the pattern in BlockBase as #241. The earliest published name I was able to find was Seven Stars, which the Ladies Art Company of St. Louis included in their early catalogs dating to about 1890 I would guess a similar quilt won a premium at the Nobles County, Minnesota, fair in 1892: "Mrs. M. L. Belknap Quilt-seven stars." Ruby McKim, whose patterns were so influential about 1930, called it Seven Stars... and so did Eveline Foland when she sketched it for the Kansas City Star in 1931. The Star published it again with different shading as Seven Stars In 1935 Carrie Hall called it Seven Stars and wrote that the design offered "many possibilities and makes a very attractive quilt." She didn't mention any symbolism. Here's her actual block at the Spencer Museum of Art (rather surprising to see that it's yellow.) The Nancy Page syndicated newspaper column gave it two names in 1933. "Seven Stars or Seven Great Lights" Says Nancy: "Mrs. John Evans of Pueblo, Colorado, is the donor of this old-time favorite. She says that her mother received it recently from the grandmother who made it when she lived in Arkansas. The grandmother called it "Seven Stars" but Mrs. Evans would like to rechristen it and call it "Seven Great Lights." That name didn't catch on. You may notice different designers constructed the seven stars in different fashion When did the pattern get the name Seven Sisters? The earliest reference: The Nancy Cabot column in the Chicago Tribune printed the pattern on March 13, 1933, and captioned it "Seven Sisters." Loretta Leitner Rising, the columnist, dedicated the quilt to the seven lovely daughters of old Virginia's Fowler family and gave the block two other names: Seven Stars and Virginia Pride. Nancy was a particularly imaginative writer so quilt historian tend to discount her accounts of names, dates and sources. And who are the Fowler sisters? Perhaps I've made too much of the pattern and the symbolism. I certainly cannot find any kind of a paper trail that leads me to believe the pattern had the name Seven Sisters before 1933 or any Civil War meaning.
The Hexagon Quilt-A-Long Posts flickr pool block 1 & layouts block 5 supply list & faq block 2 block 6 button & participants block 3 block 7 cutting instructions block 4 finishing directions block 5 { fyi...you can join the hexagon quilt a long at any time } block 5 the twirl! sew another 3 sets of strips together and follow the cutting instructions to make your pieced triangles then take 6 from one strip. and lay them out like this. and then sew them together as we have been doing each week another option is the scrappy twirl i've found that to visually keep the "twirl" it helps to keep all the larger units dark and smaller units light or vice versa here are some twirls with some floating hexagons next weekend i'll be at quilt market! but have no fear... i'll make sure the next post is ready for you before i go.. and it will be up on saturday the 22nd! we only have 2 more weeks left in the quilt-a-long! next week i'll show you the last 2 blocks and then on the 29th i'll show you the assembly directions for both layouts! -- other posts for the quilt-a-long flickr pool - don't forget to add pictures along the way! supply list & faq button & participant list cutting instructions block 1 block 2 block 3 block 4
