When I got these lovely purple fabrics fro island batiks I wanted to use black with it and had an idea for hexagons!
So I ordered a pack of 25 hexagons from paperpieces.com and 100 of the trapezoid pieces, each 2” on the side.
The hexagons are easy to cut out, I used a fons and porter glue stick and glued the paper to the fabrics
with some of the fabrics I optimized the space
with this small print I had the short edge line up with the dots and each corner ended up touching the X on the fabric too
here it was a marbled effect and I lined the pieces up to go in the same direction.
here there were big circles, so 6 of them (for one hexie) I had the circle be in the middle of the trapezoid, the other set I had the diamond shapes “space” be at the top center, should be fun to sew together!
Here all the pieces are glued and cut, I didn’t really care that the edge are not even or straight since it’s EPP.
I decided to thread baste, as it would use so much glue and these pieces are big, where I’ve glue basted Ahhhh’s (hexagons) because those were tiny pieces.
Here I sewed one hexagon together with surrounding trapezoids and then removed the paper from the black hexagon.
Should be a nice car ride project!
This is how far I got on the LOVE cross stitch which I now put back in the box.
I so love the fabrics…and your hexies are going to be fantastic!!
You are so neat. Love those colors as well.
Your hexies are going to be beautiful!!!!!
I envy you the ability to be able to work in a car, Bea, I get really carsick if I try to do anything that involves looking down. And that Dresden quilting looks fabulous, I just made a Dresden block, and can't see myself ever being seduced into a whole quilt of them, lol.
Looking good, EPP is always happy sewing. x