Oh! lordy what is she upto now?? More sewing? Doesn't this women have meals to cook, shelves to dust, grime to scrub???? Just in case you were wondering (??) of course I do! but I wouldn't dream of blogging about it, well not much anyway.
The pillow you see above is one of a pair I just made for Ciara who has to hug pillows to lull her to sleep, only she over-hugs them until they are in need of much makeoverness.
Before you start wondering how I find the time to create ruffles and patchwork them together with fabrics and crochet trims, let me tell you how easy it is.......I just pop into John Lewis in my lunch hour and buy the above wantingly beautiful fabric readily patchworked for a dreamy £6-ish for half a metre and knock up the two pillows in a couple of hours to much hugging applause from the lovely little miss C.
These are the two pillows I just replaced, The shabbiest of shabby-chic!!
Half hexagon quilt-a-long part one! May I hereby present to you episode one of the quilt-a-long! Joining me in the cast so far will be katy, hook and scumble, ann, rita, stephanie, sumea, kathleen, kelli and annie. I will be adding these names to my sidebar so that we can check up on each others progress as we go, along with any others who decide to join us.
The first thing you all need to do if you haven't already is to visit these links - for the template (please flickermail ruthdesigns for the correct size template, leaving your e-mail address so she can send it to you), cutting, joining and layout. This explains in a nutshell what we will be up to!
Please work at your own pace and add any queries you may have in the comments below, please also feel free to answer any of the queries in the comments too!!
I shall be making a 67.5" long x 72" wide quilt, this is made up of 756 half hexagon pieces or 378 pairs (remember each hexagon is made up of 2 halves of the same fabric). Very roughly I would say I'm looking at around 30 x quarter metre/yard cuts of fabric. Although it's always best to have more.
The photo's above and below show the designs I am thinking of using, mostly bought from here. I think small scale designs with an all over print work best for this design as they conceal the join in the centre of the hexagon more. Please feel free to completely oppose this though! One of the joys of us all quilting along together will be to see all the different approaches and end results!! I always use 100% cotton fabric and thread. I also find it a good idea to gather all your selected fabrics and then leave them lying around for a few days, somewhere you can see them as you whizz past getting on with all the other things you get on with. This will really help you see how the fabrics work together as a group and you can update your selection if you need to before you start.
Hope this helps, I'll be adding the next instalment hopefully some time next week to give you time to get your fabrics ready.
For now, some bank holiday flowers...
The colours of these tulips remind me of those tutti-frutti sweets.
I adore these pink edged carnations and need to look at them hourly!
Happy Bank-holidaying!!
More soon.........
whoo!!!! I am almost all set...half term this week, so I have a busy week but once the kidlets are back at school, I am ready to go!
Posted by: katy | 05/25/2009 at 09:59 AM
Hey Aneela, I would love to be part of this sewed hexagons thing! I will use Kaffe's of course...if that is ok? xo
Posted by: Cathy | 05/25/2009 at 10:50 AM
Hi Aneela, the pillows are lovely! xxxx
Posted by: melanie | 05/25/2009 at 10:54 AM
Hello Aneela, all lots of goodness to look at on this Bank Holiday Monday!!!
As I'm still on my whole hexagons (I haven't forgotten the nudge) I'll keep on going with this for the 'mo, but I do love the concept of half hexagons - 'oh' what to do (again) I can feel myself swaying 'NO' I will continue - just for the moment.
take care and have a lovely day,
Nina x
Posted by: Nina - Tabiboo | 05/25/2009 at 01:37 PM
I am definitely considering joining and will be able to decide before next week. I have fabric and the template from Ruth, so I don't have any excuse except time.
Posted by: Mary on Lake Pulaski | 05/25/2009 at 03:38 PM
Love the cushions....what a fun fabric and great price.
Okay better get off my proverbial and sort out 30 odd fat quarters of fabric...although I might do a smaller tablecover not sure but am off to contact ruth now
Do you need to start a flickr group or are we okay coming here on set days?
Ooh am excited!
Posted by: magikquilter | 05/25/2009 at 03:51 PM
Your pillow is the perfect collection of girly frills - love it!!
Posted by: Amy - parkcitygirl | 05/25/2009 at 04:46 PM
Comfort, I love how your pillows turned out...their beautiful.
Posted by: LaDawna | 05/25/2009 at 10:51 PM
love, love, love those pillows! I'll be watching this quilt along from afar because hexagons scare me. I can't wait to see the beautiful result!
Posted by: Chen | 05/26/2009 at 03:35 AM
Oh this is going to be so much fun! I am enjoying myself already! t.xx
Posted by: Kitschen Pink | 05/26/2009 at 12:36 PM
What a fantastic selection of fabrics...can't wait to see all those scrummy hexes.
Posted by: Kate | 05/27/2009 at 06:43 AM
I must have another go at my quilt; I might even get it out today as it’s raining here.
I love the pillows you have made!!!You are clever…love Lou xxx
PS. Love your fabric!
Posted by: lou | 05/27/2009 at 09:52 AM
Love this post. Don't know how I ending up here though, thought I was reading Your latest up to date post until a Bank Holiday was mentioned. Anyway, I Love the idea of buying ready made patchworky ruffles :o)
and the tulips are worth turning up here for too.
Posted by: Sumea | 01/24/2010 at 09:40 PM