Stack-n-Whack, Jeanette
Jeanette BaylisSharon Perry, Wellington, New Zealand
A quilt made from leftovers and donated fabric!!!
Jeanette belongs to a quilting group called 'Monday Munchers'. This is a group who meets all day on a Monday - and of course needs sustenance to get them through. Not just any plain old sustenance though - these girls really know what inspires great quilting - why great food of course!
(How do I know? I have seen with my own eyes, and when invited - been there to taste test as well. Put it this way - husbands do not fare well on Monday evenings).
(How do I know? I have seen with my own eyes, and when invited - been there to taste test as well. Put it this way - husbands do not fare well on Monday evenings).
Another member of the Monday Munchers group had made a quilt which incorporated a blue border print. Jeanette decided that the left-overs were too beautiful go to waste and made hexagons from them. She then fossicked around in the group charity stash finding a cream print for the background and some brown for the inner border and binding. A fantastic quilt has resulted!
At the time, I was playing with some of my hexagon designs and was very pleased to have a quilt to 'experiment' on.
If I was doing it again - I would add some quilting to the little triangles in between the hexagons - the Jane, Loops or Misty arc- or something similar. I really do not know how I missed that - but the quilt is now gone.
Quilting Patterns Used
- Hexagon Blocks: Ellen hex (3)
- Setting triangles (very flat): Ellen tri a p2p
- Cream print inner border for 'floating': Bows vine (7)
- Brown narrow border: Kites bldr a (8)
- Outer border: Loops bdr & cnr c (2)
Tips & Info
- one of the things I was really pleased to see was how well the very simple triangle worked when it was flattened to go into the setting triangles.
- in the corners where these triangles were placed, only half of the triangle was required. I used the trim feature to cut away the portion of the triangle I did not want stitching out.
- the Kites pattern in the sashing is well stretched - but a very elegant design results.
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