{"id":851,"date":"2021-10-29T17:42:21","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T15:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/?p=851"},"modified":"2021-10-29T17:42:22","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T15:42:22","slug":"ufo-update-scrap-hexagon-flower-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/29\/ufo-update-scrap-hexagon-flower-top\/","title":{"rendered":"UFO Update: Scrap Hexagon Flower Top"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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It didn’t look so busy in my head.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Still in a “finish up the old stuff” sort of mood, although compared to most of the stack this is paper-pieced hexagon quilt top is fresh! I bought the fabrics as a “scrap bag” in 2018 in Iowa, and turned them into 52 seven-hex “flower” units in 2019 while grieving Smokey (I also streamed North and South<\/a><\/em> while stitching, which was a megablockbuster in West Germany when it was released. This stands out somehow, and I don’t know why).

Then I couldn’t find a border I liked and shelved it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier this month I got up the gumption to cut into a big “good” piece of solid fabric and the first border problem is solved. I found the 1.5″ hexagons easier than the half-inch hexagons<\/a>, or maybe my hand has improved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Just assume this hole is there on purpose.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The local all-purpose fabric store went out of business last fall, due to the owner’s retirement. I managed to to snag a few discounted meters for backings before the government closed all the stores in December. So next up, I can put the layers together and do some very simple machine quilting–probably just in the ditch around the flowers. (After six years of owning this sewing machine, I have recently discovered my walking foot came with a special plate for quilting in the ditch.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’m not a big fan of heart-calico, but it’s going to be on the back.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Curiously, this quilt resembles a baby quilt, in the mid-early-21st-century fashion of rejecting fabric and patterns with baby- and child-motifs in favor of weirdly-accented soft colors in traditional blocks. This was absolutely unintentional; my goal for this project was using up the brown paper bag of matching scraps I had purchased in Iowa–and the mindlessness of matchy-fabric hexagons was helpful in the grief process. It is what is. It can go to a great-niece or nephew some day–just not for about ten years, kids, OK?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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