I was inspired by this book:
This quilt in particular, called Honeycomb Hexagon. It's made of quite large hexagons and requires "Y" seam piecing to put the rows together. I decided to use the template in the book for the half hexagon that is used to fill in the top and bottom. I cut my hexagons in 2 pieces making it 10 times faster to piece. It does mean that there's a seam through the middle of each hexagon.
If you're using small scale, tone-on-tone prints, the seam would be really negligible. But not me, I'm using big prints and lots of them. I cut the bottom and top halves of each hexagon from one piece of fabric, so although they won't match perfectly because of the seam allowance, they will be close.
From a distance you can barely tell and I think when it's quilted the seams will be even less noticeable.
Here's a closeup of how they matched up.
Today was a gorgeous Spring day. I couldn't help but photograph it in the sunny garden!
If you're using small scale, tone-on-tone prints, the seam would be really negligible. But not me, I'm using big prints and lots of them. I cut the bottom and top halves of each hexagon from one piece of fabric, so although they won't match perfectly because of the seam allowance, they will be close.
From a distance you can barely tell and I think when it's quilted the seams will be even less noticeable.
Here's a closeup of how they matched up.
Today was a gorgeous Spring day. I couldn't help but photograph it in the sunny garden!
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