Category: hexagons

hand sewing, hexagons, quilting, sewing

Patches of Sunlight

Yellow is a color that I don’t see used very often in quilting. It’s terribly bright and can easily become overwhelming. (At least to my unaccustomed Seattleite eyes.)  As I’ve been working on Freddy’s hexagon quilt, I’ve had a love/hate relation with the yellows I included.  When the quilt is bunched up on my lap, I love the pops of color. But when I lay … Continue reading Patches of Sunlight

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English paper piecing, hand sewing, hexagons, quilting

Hand-Pieced Hexagons

One of my favorite parts of quilting is the gathering of fabric.  Sometimes a quilt comes together quickly.  I spot a collection or a fat quarter bundle that I love and a quilt idea is born.  Other times the fabric comes together slowly, a fabric or two at a time.  As as the collection grows, so does the plan for a quilt.  This was the … Continue reading Hand-Pieced Hexagons

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