In my November 2025 post Easing Back into Quiltmaking with a T-Shirt Quilt, I stated “I’d like to always have some quilt, whether traditional or art, in progress on my design wall.”
Now that the T-shirt quilt for John (see post T-Shirt Quilt Assembled) and sent to the Longarm Machine Quilter for professional quilting, I realized I need to start working on ANOTHER QUILT in order to meet this goal – ha!
So I decided to pull out a dusty old project – my English Paper Piecing (EPP) hexie flower quilt top that I started in 2016 after seeing this quilt on the cover of the premiere issue of Quiltfolk Magazine – Issue 1: Oregon (I was living in Oregon at the time):
I finished paper piecing 99 hexie flowers (which each contained 7 paper pieced hexagons) in May 2024 from fabric scraps (that I sort of tried to coordinate).
Okay so let’s summarize:
- Began project in 2016
- Finished EPP flowers in 2024
- Now in 2025 decide to finally make it into a quilt top…
I pull the project out of my UFO (unfinished objects for the non quilters) pile:
After auditioning a bunch of options, I decided to set them in my collection of scrap denim, using various shades of denim. Here’s one example:
But before I can machine applique (using a blanket stitch) the hexie flowers to the denim squares (I will cut the squares initially to 7×7 inches and then trim to 6.5 x 6.5 inches after they are stitched), I have some less than pleasant work to do 99 times…
REMOVE THE PAPER FROM THE BACK OF EACH HEXIE FLOWER!
I’ve set up this project as a sit-in-front-of-the-TV project for evenings and put them all in a basket in the living room:
I’ll update you on my progress and hope to soon have some appliqued square up on the design wall in my studio.
(By the way: you might be curious about my choice to set them in denim, which is heavier than a quilting cotton. Well I plan to use the quilt as a wallhanging, not a cuddle under/utility quilt. I have a bed I plan to hang it above.)
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