Almost to the halfway point! 
I take liberties with the blocks, this was supposed to 6 tiny hexie flowers on a 6.5″ block. Sorry, but no. I enlarged them a little and fell back into what I was doing two years ago – making an all over hexie quilt.
Then a nice pieced block, with flying geese and half square triangles.
A very fussy applique got easier when I simply made the block with Broderie Perse. This is a very old technique of cutting out elements from a print fabric and appliqueing them down. Used mostly with flower motifs.
Ahh! Paper piecing, very intricate paper piecing. I even fussy cut the four central blades. Designers say that paper piecing is extremely accurate. Yes and no. The real issues arise when sewing together separate sections. I haven’t found a solution and I don’t care to, quilting isn’t about perfect accuracy. The makers hand – in this case mine, is more important than something that was stamped out by machine.
I tried to see if this could be paper pieced – waste of time. So a lot of starch and patience. People love the little elephant. I got him in a pack of 2.5″ mini charms, so he won’t repeat anywhere on the quilt. As time goes by, more and more fabrics get added in.
Another Hexie block. This technique of machine sewing the hexies was developed by Nicole of Modern Handcraft, came up with this technique. The idea is to glue the hexies down and quilt and applique at the same time. Since this will be sitting around for at least six more months, I appliqued them down already, I’ll figure out the quilting later.
Easy paper piecing! No question, I like piecing and paper work.
Time for group photos, rather than laying all the blocks out, I categorized them.
Applique and embroidery.
Paper piecing, by machine on the left, the two hexie blocks are English paper piecing. the all over one is completely done by hand.
Most of the blocks are pieces, so I’m dividing them by ‘theme’.
Of course they don’t all fit into neat catagories.
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