Wednesday 3 July 2013

Huge Hexies

A few months ago one of my students at Chertsey Museum brought in a 3m (3 yard ) flimsey that a friends mother had made from big paper pieced hexies.

What could she do with it?  Nobody wanted it as it was, it was too big, and a real miss-mash of fabrics: cotton, corduroy, lining material, even crimplene!

Finally after a few months thinking she decided we could chop it into 6 children sized flimsies and make charity quilts .

So last night I quilted the first one, just free range lines in each direction resulting in a star burst roughly in the centre of each


then I washed it just to be sure the top wouldn't fall apart, And it came out fine!

I've got three more to go, two of the students took one each too

5 comments:

  1. how wonderful that all that hard work is to be saved.. and passed on x glad she did not just abandon it xx

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  2. Gorgeous hexies.Great job!

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  3. That's looking great! I like the way you decided to quilt it. It brings it together beautifully :)

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  4. Will make fab playmats with all those textures x

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  5. Looking good xxx

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