Posts Tagged ‘half hex quilt along’

Finishing up the half hex quilt..

Monday, June 29th, 2009

Once I had the top put together it looked like a pond with lily pads to me? I quilted it by machine using a large stipple…and I decided to applique a few leaping frogs on the quilt. Well now..half hex quilt isn’t a very fancy name..so I named it “Leap Frog”.

Leap Frog with appliques

I had problems with the quilting..the thread kept breaking, my machine overheated and went berserk, and I used fusible batting..which gummed up the needle pretty good, but I was determined to finish this one! Changing to a larger eyed needle, and swabbing Pam onto it helped a lot. I ended up with a couple of puckers on the back..but I can live with it. It IS the back after all. ;)

Leap Frog Quilt001

I love my Leap Frog quilt…warts and all!

Half Hex Quilt Along

Monday, June 29th, 2009

My friend Aneela, of Comfortstitching decided to do a quilt along using an easy method to piece hexagons, by cutting them in half. With this method the hexagons can be pieced in rows..no set in seams! I laid out my fabrics for a random placement design. Once I was happy with it I pinned the pieces in rows and labeled them (that part is important..if you don’t label what the row number is you’ll have a mess) , then I chain pieced the whole lot by feeding them through my sewing machine.

chain piecing

chain piecing

I know..it looks like a mess right? That’s why it so important to label the rows. ;)

I added a border and ended up with a nice sized quilt top.