Wednesday, January 6, 2016

60˙ "Spielereien" or playing with 60˙ angle

I just finished hand-piecing the inside hexagon stars. Each one is made with 72 kite shaped pieces of fabric... So, there are over 1440 pieces hand stitched together. Now I will tackle the layout and use equilateral triangles as setting pieces. This is my envisioned version so far.

All inside star fabric was selected form Anna Maria Horner fat-quarter bundles. I used many different black and white fabrics as a background and the blue setting fabric is Climbing Vine Wildwood by Elizabeth Oliver for Cloud 9 Collective and is a 100% organic cotton fabric. The next picture when I have the quilt pieced... But for this I will now switch to the sewing machine....

The quilt has been finished for almost a year and I just realized I never took the picture of it finished.
 A long time I wasn't sure what to add in the corner. I knew I wanted to have a bigger quilt and wanted to add a border. As the hexagon shape was already present in the design, I made a border with EPP hexagons. I also had hexagon flowers for the corners, but didn't like them -  and decided to add stars and a dark blue binding with lighter blue piping. Finding the right blue was quite hard. I started calling this shade of blue the tricky blue. I love it, but it is quite hard to find.
 Here the finished quilt in all its glory.
 And the back....

... with the for the front rejected hexagon flowers.
In the end the quilt was a Christmas gift for my husband.