This hexie quilt has more than 300 pieced hexagons through out it. I am up to my fourth set of pins to pin each hexie as I quilt the background first. I am using Glide Cleopatra thread, love the sheen on the batik fabric. Quilting a feathered meander across the top, but only on the background fabric. It looks like it is continuous but once I come to a print hexie I stop the feathers. One meander goes left to right, the next one goes right to left. I chalked where the spine would be before I started and once it was on the frame found I needed to chalk the boundaries of the feathers so I didn't get carried away with the bubble fill I am using behind the feathers. Am almost finished the background then I will start on the actual hexagons. Still toying with ideas on them. Possibly will do the same pattern in every diamond no matter what size, different pattern for trapezium etc to fill them up. Hexagons have 2 1/2" sides. and I only found 2 papers in the whole quilt!
Lyn that is a very busy quilt, so colourful. A lot of concentration needed there. It's looking good.
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