Tag: hexies

Have you ever had one of those days when, no matter how hard you tried, you just couldn’t get it (whatever it was) right? I had one of those days this week. Every time I pieced parts of the sashing together, I had to take them back apart. My brain just wasn’t firing on all… Continue reading Almost!

I’ve been piecing the other rows of my Over the Rainbow quilt, but I can’t piece them to each other without sewing sashing rows onto them. I had to cut the rest of the sashing strips and squares first (check!), and yesterday afternoon was the first chance I had to sew one regular row to… Continue reading And now… with sashing row

I had a lot going on this weekend, but I managed to get one row pieced for my Over the Rainbow quilt, and I’m thrilled with how it looks so far. Each successive row will shift the colors to the left by one, and there will be sashing rows of black with a rainbow of… Continue reading A rainbow row

This is the hexagon center of the seventh and final red block. One step closer to putting together my Over the Rainbow quilt! This quilt has been in progress since April 2013. It would be cool if I could get it finished before the 10-year mark.

With six blocks pieced and just one left to go, I wanted to see how my latest red block would look “finished.” I just couldn’t wait until the seventh is done. I have probably said it before, but I love how the black print sets off the block. The original model quilt used white instead… Continue reading Bordered red blocks