Hi everyone. This post contains a few tips for making this quilt, focusing on the fabric cutting.
The charm of this quilt is the gorgeous fabric centres which use a lot of large prints from the Kaffe Fassett Collective fabrics, bordered with fussy and unfussy cut hexagon florets.
If you look at the quilt, you’ll notice that many of the florets are not fussy cut at all, but, mixed with a number of florets which are fussy cut, the quilt becomes more interesting as the viewer’s eye scan the various hexagons individually. As fans of the Kaffe Fassett Collective fabric range, you can probably identify the fabrics. This is a chance for you to cut into those fabulous big prints and showcase them.
Let’s see a few florets in detail:
Have fun! K
Kim: Thank you for introducing me to EPP! I have been thoroughly enjoying piecing the hexagons for Glorious Garden over the last two months as my husband has been recuperating from surgery — it’s been my meditation as we waited in so many medical spaces. But now a question: When do you recommend removing the paper? Am I correct in assuming I can keep them in until I’ve actually joined the diamonds? I’ve just started adding centers to the florets and realize I can do that without removing them…just wondering what you recommend.
Hi Kim, I have finished the circles and the pieced hexagon ring. I am now onto the diamonds. Could you give some more instructions on joining the blocks together. I have been trying to join the two black diamonds between the blocks. They are not going together for me. When I sew them together, I get sort of a dimensional peak that will not lay down flat. Is there a sequence to join them. I need help please. Thank-you, Susan Farid