As I mentioned earlier on the blog I decided to give English paper piecing a try and made some hexies, which was and probably still is a big thing in quilting. I never understood why. I see all these gals hand stitching these little scraps onto cardboard hexagons and then whip stitching them together and even making bed-size quilts out of them, and they all talk about becoming addicted to this method. How?
Anyway, I used some scraps from my last experiment to make the hexies, and then sewed together what I got done in one hour:
It was okay, I guess. I've done plenty of tedious work in the past (hello, slow stitch) but this variety didn't result in much. Sewing them made my neck hurt because I couldn't get into a comfortable position while making them. I still don't get what the big deal is. To me it felt like a LEGO style of quilting. Where is the originality in piecing all these things together? Looks like a honeycomb. Anything I make this way will just look like a bee hive.
So I think this was my first and last attempt to make hexies. :)
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