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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You're right...you can hardly tell where the seams are! Perfect fabrics for this quilt...
ReplyDeleteBeautiful. The best way to do hexies unless the fabric print is too large.
ReplyDeleteLove it even with the gray. This is a great technique for hexagons by machine.
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing.
Have a super great sewing day.
The colours look so pretty together, especially in the sunshine.
ReplyDeleteWhat, that was very clever of you! I've never even attempted the dreaded "y" seam, I think you were wise to avoid it! It looks great!
ReplyDeleteYour seams are magical - they disappeared and cannot be seen.
ReplyDeleteVery pretty and a much easier construction method to English Paper Piecing!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful quilt! I'm adding this to my future project list.
ReplyDeleteClever, clever. I have been hooing and hoeing over this pattern for the last week or so and you've just made this so much easier to begin. Thanks for sharing your short-cuts!!
ReplyDeleteCute. I have a smililar pattern made with charm squares. ... well ok I have a pattern and a pile of charm squares cut haha. This is super cute!
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