Love My Handwork Projects

As well as the Omigosh quilt I had just posted about, I've been also working on my Hexagon quilt.  Since I'm piecing it all by hand, it's a project I can work on while I'm sitting at my son's baseball practices.

I had finally found some information about this quilt.  I still don't know whose photos I had 

seen but this quilt is named "The Hexagon Quilt," and it is created by Leanne Beasley.  She

 had featured this quilt in Vignette magazine in 2011.

Click here to visit here blog:     leanneshouse.typepad.com

Just to recap, I am using Nancy Halvorsen's fabrics.  Love them!!  I'm guessing that if I use 80 different prints and make 5 flowers from each, that will give me 400 flowers to sew together.  I think that will be enough for a good size quilt.  That'll be approximately 2800 hexagons to make!  I know, I've got to be nuts!

During one practice, one of the coaches' young daughters had sat by me and asked what I was making.  After describing how the quilt will look like once its finished, I thought I'd make her a flower using the hexagons.  A perfect visual aid on how the shapes fit together.

I had sewn them like little pillows and filled the center with some fiberfill for some body.

Jane  <3