My most recent on-the-go project (read: small enough to store in my purse or the car) is my Very Tiny English Paper Piecing.
This tiny project box is really handy to carry around. |
The plan:
I'm making a wall-hanging, to go in a frame. Something like this, made of very tiny, very scrappy hexagon flowers ... Frame size about 8" x 10" ... or maybe the next size up, depending on how big it ends up.
The inspiration:
Several weeks ago, it occurred to me that I'd like to make a quilt-y wall hanging. Just something pretty and small. Colorful. Simple. (And in a frame so it's easy to dust.) This quilt (discovered on Pinterest a few weeks ago, now pinned here) has a beautiful layout, and about 6 weeks ago, I decided that a similar layout (minus the border) would make a great tiny-hexagon wall hanging.7 colored hexagon flowers |
12 colored hexagon flowers & 4 white hexagon flowers |
The flowers I made this week. (That First Big Quilt is in the background.) |
Finished 12 out of 20 colored flowers.
Finished 4 out of 12 white flowers.
Still need lots of additional white background hexagons.
~ Switich gears; next project ~
And, my longest-running English Paper Piecing project, which has been in the works for a year and a half: The Vintage-Inspired Diamond Stars.
What it looked like last time I blogged about it:
Progress as of September 2012 |
Progress as of July 2013 |
I'm not quite ready to count numbers-of-diamonds needed, or even numbers-of-inches ... yet. I'm having fun, but, realistically, these are small diamonds, and this will never be a huge quilt. Basically, I'd like to make the scrappy white border of diamonds even all the way around (obviously), and then add a single-diamond-row of colored diamonds, and then more white. Something like that.
Anyhoo, it comes in handy that I can get a little reminder/inspiration/motivation/accountability to work on this one ...
Jessica, who blogs at Life Under Quilts, has just started a "Monday Morning Star Count" as a place to link blog posts about English Paper Piecing project progress. (Say that 3 times fast!) Since I love the inspiration I get from seeing other people's projects come together ... and since Jessica's pictures of her travel quilts motivated me to try a similar design ... I'm linking my post today to this week's Monday Morning Star Count.
Beautiful! I love the mini flowers. These remind me of some of the extraordinarily dainty quilts I saw in Japan at the beginning of the year. How hard is it to keep smooth? Your second quilt is lovely too -- the off/white border is very effective. JJ
ReplyDeleteI must post as anonymous only because I dont have any of the profiles listed. I love your mini hexies. I am using the same inspiration quilt to make a scrap hexie quilt , I am using 1 inch hexies. I chuckled over your colored graph paper as it looks so similar to mine.
ReplyDeleteJudy