Six inch hexies are all sewn together into a quilt top and I've started hand quilting. It's a rainbow of some of my favorite things.
Fairies, blueberries, snowflakes, butterflies, merry-go-rounds, unicorns, pansies...
I couldn't decide what to use for the backing. I wanted to use perle #8 in a variety of rainbow colors to do the quilting but didn't want it to look too strange on the back. This fabric is a rainbow of flowers and the quilting blends in nicely.
After a day in and out of the garden - weeding and picking strawberries, playing games with and chasing around grandkids and getting ready for a camping trip next weekend I'm ready to relax, sit with a glass of homemade raspberry/rhubarb wine and do some slow Sunday stitching on my Favorite Things before bed.
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Oh what wonderful fabrics! Don't you just love the transformation when the hand quilting gets added!
ReplyDeleteIt's beautiful, Cathy! I can't imagine how long it took you. I just finished up a two foot square with hexie and hand sewing. I worked on it a lot. Yours is soooo gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteThat quilt is incredible...
ReplyDeleteI love the way the colors move throughout your quilt. It is darling!
ReplyDeleteI love this quilt! And it is giving you a chance to use all your colours of quilting thread in one project :) SO FUN!
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Wow - what a fun and colorful quilt!!! I love it!!! And I love the big quilting stitches in perle cotton too :*)
ReplyDeleteI love seeing what you are making! Definitely inspires me in thinking of ideas for sewing.
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