{"id":41005,"date":"2018-07-10T07:00:24","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T14:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=41005"},"modified":"2021-07-19T19:00:12","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T02:00:12","slug":"interesting-half-hexie-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/interesting-half-hexie-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Half Hexie Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d love to say this piece was in the finishing process, but it is so far from the finishing process that lying wouldn&#8217;t even cover what I was doing. I am, however, working on this piece. It is slow going, which is fine when I don&#8217;t have other handwork that I must do.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40991\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40991\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/wp-15302283128525820872013554164757.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40991\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/wp-15302283128525820872013554164757-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"Half Hexie First Borders\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/wp-15302283128525820872013554164757-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/wp-15302283128525820872013554164757-768x560.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/wp-15302283128525820872013554164757-1024x746.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/wp-15302283128525820872013554164757-1200x874.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40991\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Half Hexie First Borders<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Recently, I bought papers to fill in the border of the half hexie piece. I needed some triangles and some diamonds. I want to create a full stop at least on one side, so I picked out a dark grey (charcoal) with small white dots and basted some pieces. The fabric is not a pin dot.<\/p>\n<p>It is a little bit of a shift to insert these extra shapes, but I got into it. It is kind of funny to see the edge done. I wonder if the grey is too dark considering the overall cheerful look of the piece.<\/p>\n<p>I plan to put another straight border on the sides, once I get all the diamonds and triangles attached.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d love to say this piece was in the finishing process, but it is so far from the finishing process that lying wouldn&#8217;t even cover what I was doing. I am, however, working on this piece. It is slow going, which is fine when I don&#8217;t have other handwork that I must do. Recently, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/interesting-half-hexie-progress\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Interesting Half Hexie Progress&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[453],"tags":[209,504,22,353,362],"class_list":["post-41005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-453","tag-english-paper-piecing","tag-half-hexie-star","tag-hand-piecing","tag-process","tag-works-in-progress"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53592,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41005\/revisions\/53592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}