Hello, it’s the 15th of the month I’ve rejoined the monthly ScrapHappy posting group hosted by Kate of Tall Tales From Chiconia.
Here are links to the blogs of the ScrapHappy participants:
Kate, Eva, Sue, Lynda, Birthe, Turid, Tracy, Jan,
Moira, Sandra, Chris, Alys, Claire, Jean, Dawn, Gwen,
Sunny, Kjerstin, Sue L, Vera, Ann, Dawn 2, Carol, Preeti,
Viv, Karrin, Alissa, Tierney, Hannah and Maggie
Over the next couple of months I’ll be saving updates my long time English Paper Piecing hexie rosette project to share on the 15th of each month for ScrapHappy.
In my most recent post on this project, Revisiting the EPP Quilt, I shared that I’ve been working on this project since 2016 when I fell in love with the quilt on the cover of Issue 1: Oregon of Quiltfolk Magazine.
I paper pieced 99 rosettes from my fabric scrap collection, attempting to coordinate the colors:
And finally I’ve begun setting the rosettes into blocks using my collection of scrap denim with plans to trim each block to 6.5 inches by 6.5 inches.
But I had to find the most efficient want to attach 99 rosettes to the denim scraps without having to hand appliqué them to the blocks. I was afraid if I committed to hand appliqué all 99 blocks, it would be another 9+ years until I finished this quilt!
So I decided to find a way to use my sewing machine to do it.
I researched my Bernina sewing machine books on the Bernina sewing machine feet and sewing machine stitches, and discovered I could use the #20C foot to sew a blanket stitch around each rosette to attach it (I decided to use a little Stitch Witchery Tape to anchor the rosette onto the denim before machine stitching).
After practicing on scrap denim I was able to figure it out and attach my first rosette and from there I put together my first 9 blocks:
Here they are squished together to sort of give you an idea of how the quilt might look:
I have a long way to go but it is a start!
I did discover that in addition to removing the paper from the hexies in each rosette, I still have to stitch some of the rosettes fully together! So there is a lot of work to get this project done and we’ll see how much progress I will have to report next month 🙂
Oh and yes it will be a heavy quilt using scrap denim as the setting squares but it is going to be a wall hanging in my upstairs guest room, not a utility quilt for snuggling under.
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