Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Hexagon Madness :: PTS UPDATE



When I first decided that I had to learn Hexagons, I begged everyone under the sun to teach me. Of course when your a sewer already, most things come like second nature. English paper piecing came surprisingly simple to me. Although the small pieces were tedious at times and  very time consuming, I enjoyed being able to take them with me wherever I went. Sophie enjoyed playing at the indoor park this morning while I finished up this month long project.

I did end up taking the previous pieces apart, and went with a grandmothers flower type design instead. I felt that it needed a more decorative look since it was in fact going to be a pillow cover. My love for linen then came out again in this pillow and I decided to piece one inch linen hexagons with my cotton prints to give it some texture. I used a handkerchief linen for these; very lightweight and hard to work with, but happy with the end result.


 After finishing up the piecing of my one inch hexagons and squaring up my pillow to 17.5 x 17.5 I was about to add a simple border using two prints, but later changed my mind to keep it simple looking and leave the eye candy where I had pieced all those tiny bits of fabric together.  My new found love for embroidery turned out to be just the thing this pillow needed.

I am thinking about binding it with this print from Denyse Schmidts Hope Valley collection. What do you think? My other idea was piping in an aqua color but I just think that piping is not elegant enough for this cover.
What do you all think?


All in all, this pillow has taken gobs of time to make, but I was able to fit it in the times that I would not usually be able to sew. For me this was pretty gratifying to have completed something like this in those moments that I cannot be at my machine.  I would be interested to hear some advice if anyone has any, I will reveal the finished pillow with the very cool backing in my next post!


HAPPY SEWING

16 comments:

  1. This would make a wonderful Doll Quilt! I really love how you made this. I have been trying to make a few but my corner never seem to come out pointed, just round. So it's on the back burner for now. Thanks for sharing!

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  2. Seeewww pretty!!! love the gray!

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  3. this is definitely one of my favorites of all the pillows. :)

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  4. I love the way the embroidery looks on this.

    And I think that fabric would look awesome as binding.

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  5. the quilting is absolutely wonderful. I also think that fabric would be great as binding.

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  6. This pillow is gorgeous. Personally, i think the aqua piping would frame the piece and finish it off. I think the stripe is too distracting from the lovely hexies. :)

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  7. Tha hand-quilting looks wonderful, and I love the linen! I used linen for my first hexies, last week, it's good to know that cotton is easier!

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  8. I am thinking the binding may be to busy as well. Maybe a solid charcoal?

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  9. yes! charcoal would be perfect and i just know how much your partner will lovw this pillow... it's a crazy beautiful pillow!!! :)

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  10. Really awesome, Terri! You have put so much thought and time into this, and it really shows! You have a very lucky partner!

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  11. oh my goodness!! that is amazing, terri!! LOVE it soooo much!!

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  12. It's gorgeous Terri! And I love that binding choice.

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  13. It's beautiful! Nice work.

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  14. This pillow is so great! Can't wait to see what binding you decided to put on it.

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