Quilt as you go hexies

I've been hand stitching hexies lately,

first on vacation in the Rockies,

and now with friends at home during my Wednesday evening quilt camp.

I put together a visual tutorial so you can see my process.

I cut the hexgons with a Go! die.

The big one is 2.5 inches on the sides, and the smaller one is 1.5 inches.

I'm having fun with these, matching up fronts and backs

and using up little bits of batting trimmed from quilts.

This full-sized quilt by Elsie Peters of Winkler, Manitoba is my inspiration.

She use different sized hexagons so the border is a bit narrower.

I like the subdued effect from her colour choices, but I've been cutting into Kaffe prints and hand dyes so mine will be brighter.

Blocks to share, blocks to keep

I'm sharing these black and white and red blocks

with you in blogland as well as with my guild friend B.

who is collecting them for a charity quilt.

My black and white fabric stash is getting low

but I found several fun prints to combine.

I like the squiggles on this one, 

and how they contrast with the straight lines in the red print.

Here's one using some of the same parts

but in a pinwheel design.

I cut these with the mix and match dies 

on the Accuquilt Go! cutter.

I'm a part owner of own with five other guild members.

A year ago, I cut lots of DS Prints with those same dies

for a mix and match sampler quilt.

These blocks sat in a box for months

until last weekend when I sashed them.

I have 20 in all,

enough to make a single quilt.

If you're wondering about the spots in the middle of the blocks,

that is masking tape marked with the number of each block,

so when they fall off the wall I know where they belong.

I'm linking up with WIP Wednesdays at

Freshly Pieced

and The Needle and Thread Network.

Ripple Effect

Ripple Effect

42 by 42 inches

machine pieced and quilted

I finally finished this ripple quilt

made of large half square triangles

of  Kaffe and other bright scraps

and two Kona purples.

I strip-pieced the scraps and then cut them with 

a large HST die on the Go! cutter

The back is a two-tone ripple flannel

and I quilted straight lines in the purples

and squiggles in the scraps.

I quilted in a few ripples

because I didn't take enough care in basting,

so it's ripples all around!

This is going on the finished,

to-be-gifted pile.

I'm linking up with other Friday finishes

at Crazy Mom Quilts

Confessions of a Fabric Addict

and TGIFF.

WIP Wednesday

Finished 20 blocks with DS fabrics

cut with my Accuquilt Go!.

We bought the mix and match starter set,

and so I cut shapes from all of the fabrics

and tried to make 20 different blocks

using a centre motif.

from left: pinwheels, stars, square within square, and design which reach into the edges.

Sorry for the bad pix -- I have a new phone and still figuring it out.

Linking up with Lee at Freshly Pieced.

Freshly Pieced Stars

I've been piecing Friendship Stars

cut with the Go! from my scraps.

This is destined to be a long and narrow couch quilt.

My colour scheme is red/green/brown/neutral

with scrappy bits thrown in.

Some are high contrast and others are low volume.

And yes, I know some of my stars spin the other way.

I've also thrown in some nine-patches.

I'm linking up with Lee at Freshly Pieced.

Flying south for the winter

(light spot is from a sunny fall day)

I decided to put the Accuquilt Go cutter to good use

and started cutting flying geese out of solids.

The beauty of using solids is that I don't need to worry

about right sides and wrong sides

or left and right triangles.

I nearly wore out a cutting mat cutting parts for 200 or so flying geese.

This will become a full-sized quilt for DS2.

I like how the dog ears are already trimmed

and if I have an accurate 1/4 inch seam

the flying geese units are ready to go without trimming.

My system with the Go cutter is to cut the big pieces first

and then keep cutting smaller and smaller shapes.

These blue and green squares were left from cutting the flying geese.

The blocks are for a group quilt for a local charity.

I'm linking up with The Needle and Thread Network.