I had no enterprise beginning one other English Paper Piecing (EPP) venture however I did it anyway. Having a sluggish stitching venture on the go continues to offer me a lot pleasure, and whereas I’ve but to baste and quilt a number of of my already accomplished EPP quilt tops, this one quietly slipped in with none guilt or remorse, and has now been added to my pile of completed quilt tops.
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A conventional 1 inch Hexagon Scrap Quilt has been on my quilty bucket listing for a while. I simply love the look of scrappy patchwork and by conserving the hexagon items comparatively small I get to make use of lots of my favourite stash materials. As you possibly can see, most of the materials have been fussy reduce to function a design ingredient (it appears I’ve many various materials with strawberries!). For those who’ve been quilting – and collating a material stash for some time – I feel you’ll recognise most of the prints that I’ve used. Some materials have been round for fairly a while, and others are pretty current additions to my stash.
Making this quilt prime has been a labor of affection! Similar to any hand pieced quilt, the method may be very time consuming. I spent a variety of time slicing cloth items. Most materials have been repeated as much as 4 instances, and I estimate to have used as much as 300 completely different materials. I actually do get pleasure from pulling cloth from stash and may fortunately spend days slicing hexagons, watching the pile of hexies develop. All materials have been reduce by utilizing a rotary cutter and an acrylic hexagon template.
I proceed to connect baste my papers/materials for English Paper Piecing and haven’t any bother conserving the papers in place for so long as is required, nor do I’ve problem eradicating the papers. Many of the hexagon papers used for this quilt have been beforehand used to piece my Scrappy Grandmother’s Flower Backyard Quilt.
All of the images proven listed here are of the quilt prime after the papers have been eliminated, apart from alongside the very edges of the quilt prime. Pictured above is a photograph of what the again of the quilt prime appears to be like like.
QUILT DETAILS
Scrappy Hexagon Quilt
The quilt prime measures roughly 53 inches x 63 inches.
Began: June 2019.
English Paper Pieced.
1 inch hexagons.
A complete of 1332 Hexagons.
To maintain my venture moveable – sew anyplace, anytime – I pieced 16-patch blocks.
Step 1 :: Piece strips of 4 hexagons collectively as pictured above.
Step 2 :: Piece 4 strips collectively right into a 16-patch block as pictured under.
A complete of 324 strips of 4 hexagons (Step 1).
A complete of 81 16-patch blocks (Step 2).
I then organized the 81 blocks in 9 rows of 9 blocks,
pieced the blocks collectively in vertical rows,
and completed by piecing collectively the vertical rows with
a protracted vertical seam.
TOOLS AND NOTIONS
1 Inch Hexagon Papers
1 Inch Acrylic Hexagon Template with 3/8″ seam allowance.
Water Soluble Basting Glue – Sewline.
Straw Needles – Dimension 11.
The Backside Line 60wt thread by Superior Threads.
Factors to notice:
- Each time doable I like to make sure that my cloth items are reduce and sewn collectively on grain. This could lead to a pleasant and flat accomplished quilt prime with the least stretch and cloth motion, which is able to make basting and quilting simpler.
- Eradicating papers as you go makes for way more snug piecing. I began eradicating papers when stitching collectively blocks into vertical rows.
- As soon as the quilt prime was accomplished I made a decision so as to add one further row of hexagons (36 hexies) so as to add an extra 2 inches to the size of the quilt.
My objective is to baste this quilt prime by the tip of the week, after which begin quilting it subsequent week. I’ve already sorted via my cloth stash for an appropriate quilt again, and reduce a bit of batting to measurement. Now prepared for basting ….
Thanks for stopping by and for scrolling via the numerous images!
Rita
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