Mostly made from Goodwill men's dress shirts, it is a wannabe bed quilt. IF (and that's a big if) I can carry on. I figure it will take about a thousand of them to make a bed quilt. Each hexagon has to be cut out of paper, pinned to a 3" (approximately) piece of fabric, basted on all six sides, then sewn one side at a time to another one. So each hexagon has 6 sides which must be sewn to another hexagon's edge. That's a lot of damn handsewing!!!! It's meditative and relaxing, but slow as hell. I do it when I don't need to think. The Millefiore needs lots of concentration and designing and planning. This one is just random. It reminds me of a Scandinavian starry, cold winter night and Japanese boro (old field clothes that are worn and patched). And that makes me happy!       |
Cut the templates (very carefully). Hundreds and hundreds of templates! Some people can reuse them, but I always end up messing them up so that they can't be used again. It's a talent I seem to have perfected.
Then you pin them atop a square a bit bigger than the template.
You fold the fabric down over the template and sew each side, sticking your needle through the paper and I always take a double stitch on the corner/points.
Then you take two pieces and sew the side together. I sew them into lines/rows of 14 and then sew the lines/rows together
I like the random look of it. I'm only using blues and taupes/creams.
So I always have to have several things going at once or I get bored.
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