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#EnglishPaperPiecing

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Magic Cauldron
Decided on a pattern for my Grandmother's Flower Garden Quilt an started to sew a test. My plan - so far - is to use no newly produced fabric. I made the first flowers out of a rest of my 1. medieval-byzantine garb, an old jumpsuit of my kid (woodland critters), a shirt I never wore and a vintage fabric scrap. The border of the flower (or the "ways" between the flowers in the garden, there will also be "leafs" in various shades of green) consists of second hand cloth, I hope I have enough of it. I had the luck to find second hand some vintage fabric from a quilter (may the earth be light on her). I bought ~ 4 Kg fabric online really cheap and without really knowing what was in it, only because of some turquoise cotton fabric I saw on a crappy photo. I gambled a bit and was rewarded. When I opened the parcel I was so happy to find that there were several pieces of (vintage and modern) damask bedclothes included, hand died in green, olive and turquoise. Really, it's an absolute treasure box.

Edit: (Also: I feel like I am deeply in need to review my thoughts about art and crafting. When I look at other peoples things: Yes! This is art!
When I look at my things: No, you just did.. apply things you bought, used techniques you saw. 🥴)

#Diy #handarbeiten #crafting #epp #quilting #quilts #nähen #NähenVonHand #SlowStitching #Hexies #Hexagon #stitching #Patchwork #upcycling #flowergardenQuilt #flowerGarden #quilt #englishPaperPiecing #upcycling #sewing #scrapQuilt #quilt
Closed silver laptop with rainbow stickers. On it: A flower out of hexagon fabric bits. The petals are made out of cloth with green leaves and blue, oriental flowers. The center is blue linnen. The partially sewed on border is turquoise damast. In the center is a bee, a needle minder with the needle and thread. Oder flowers and small boxes with hexagon parts are scattered around.
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Fred

Have begun making tiny hexagons for my stupid mental health, as the meme goes. I'm really enjoying them so far.

Not sure what I'm making with these, but I think it'll be a new case for my power bank. My last one went a bit wonky in the wash because the wadding detached. Whoever made it really did not think that part through (it was me, I made it).

Photograph of two small piles of patchwork hexagons sitting on the corner of a laptop beside the trackpad. The hexagons have sides half an inch long, and are all sewn around paper templates. The left pile is made from scraps of a lovely Kaffe Fasset fabic in turquoise, bright red, dark blue, green and purple, and the right pile is made from fabric with a very dark blue background and a repeating pattern of tiny stars of different sizes coloured with a rainbow ombre.
#patchwork#hexagons#EnglishPaperPiecing
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Toby MacNutt

Here's a closer look at this #EnglishPaperPiecing project in progress. Started last August, and the end is in sight now, at least the end of the piecing part - all by hand. #Quilting will also need to be by hand which is more intimidating. Cross that bridge when we get to it though. (Pattern is a lightly modified "La Passacaglia with Mister Penrose" by Willyne Hammerstein.)

A large, irregular, complex quilt in progress hanging on a red wall. It is made of intersecting round blocks of two different sizes, each with star centers and rings of stars, diamonds, and pentagons around. All the fabrics are yellow, white, grey, or black so that it is busy but not overwhelming.
Closeup of one area. The center block is a star of sleeping grey owls, surrounded by open eyes, surrounded by bees flying on a charcoal background. On various sides the rings and stars are fabric with yellow stars, gold snowflakes, honeycomb, mice, keys, moons, and feathers.
Close up of a mostly-black block with constellation patterned center, in a thin ring of honeycomb in a ring of copper-on-black scattered stars. Its outermost ring is stars made of Arabic text and sketched black owls, alternating with diamonds of white bunnies on yellow. Blocks around the edges have different owls, various bees, moons, and tiny English text.
Closeup of some blocks at the bottom edge, primarily one with a yellow center star in a ring of grayscale framed portraits. A row of black stars wind away from its edge to join other blocks in dark yellow, black, and gold, with stars, snowflakes, hearts, and bees. A not-yet-connected metallic gold block is visible off to the side.
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