Last night, after cutting the shapes for a few more sunflowers, I decided it was time to make another pieced hexagon. This is a rather large hexagon for me – it’s a 3″ hexagon composed of 30 pieces, all from … Continue reading
Another Pieced Hexagon
Category Archives: Sunflower
Blue Sunflower
While I’ve been doing a lot of cutting of the shapes for more batik sunflowers, I really didn’t get much stitching done on the weekend. I did finish this blue sunflower. Seams graded and little block pressed. We have had … Continue reading
Pink Sunflower
Another sunflower is done to add to the little stack. Now there are 10 done. This one is a rather hot pink. I can tell already that arranging the sunflowers when they’re done is going to be fun. Now that … Continue reading
Purple Sunflower
One more sunflower to add to the little stack of finished blocks. A purple one this time. Seams graded and pressed. Putting together the diamond/triangles band that goes around the centre circle takes the longest but is also a lot … Continue reading
Batik Sunflower Printing
After making the mini sunflower quilt for the blog hop, I was reminded just how much I love making the 6″ sunflowers. After all, they have two of my favourite things – continuous stitching and curved piecing. So yesterday I picked … Continue reading
Say It With Flowers Blog Hop
It’s the first day of the Say It With Flowers blog hop and I think we’re in for some real treats to see! Thank you to Madame Samm for hosting yet another great blog hop and to Carol, our cheerleader … Continue reading
Cutting Curved Pieces
Now that I’ve started making sunflowers again, it was time to print some more shapes on fabric and cut them out. And that brings me to a new favourite tool – the Fiskars 18mm Fingertip Rotary Cutter. It’s fabulous and … Continue reading
Orange Sunflower
It has been quite a while since I made one of the 6″ sunflowers. I hadn’t forgotten them, just had been so engrossed in other projects that they kept being put to the back of the line-up of projects. Now that … Continue reading
Batik Sunflowers Together
When I had the batt taped to the wall as a temporary design wall, I put up all 8 of the finished batik 6″ sunflower blocks. The centre pale yellow one may need to be set aside for a small … Continue reading
Fabric Flying and Cat Flying
As usual around here, there were fabric bits scattered about last night. Could I play with them? Oh, no! They were for sunflowers, she said, or pickles or … wait a minute. Pickles? Since when is she sewing pickles? I … Continue reading
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