This is a little wreath I made a few of two years ago. It's from Martha Thompson's Magical Hexagons book. I gave all of them away as gifts except this one. It was a test. If you click the picture and expand it, you'll see all this crazy, busy quilting all over it. I was checking whether I wanted to do that on all of them.
It's actually an outline of the backing fabric. I flipped it over and quilted around the red flowers, the white flowers and the green leaves in matching color thread. It gave me a kind of crazy scene on the front.
Needless to say, I did NOT do that on all of them. At first I didn't like how the quilting overwhelmed the pieced wreath. But this year, when we pulled it out, I decided I did like the effect of the flowers quilted on the front. But, the biggest reason is that it took forEVER and I didn't have the time to do it on 5 wreaths.
I can't remember if this is an exact pattern in the book or just made with that method. The method is to cut out hexagons and sew them all together, then cut the resulting top into triangles and sew them together. You end up with a hexagon shape again and all those gear shapes spinning across the top. Add a border and you have a quilt. It's a pattern I'd definitely make again and might try to use for something bigger in the future.
Have a great day. Two more days until the weekend. Lane
3 comments:
That is a beautiful hexagon Lane. LOve the colours and the quilting.
Very pretty! Try not to stress...take a deep breath. :)
That's so pretty Lane. When I have to work from home I do it in chunks and do stuff in between. As long as the work gets done it doesn't matter when like it does when you're stuck in an office. It's so hard not to stress but I think as far as Christmas goes I'm making it this year. I just keep reminding myself it's only a day like the other 364 days of the year.
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