{"id":45896,"date":"2019-05-14T07:00:18","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T14:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=45896"},"modified":"2021-07-19T18:59:49","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T01:59:49","slug":"half-hexie-epp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/half-hexie-epp\/","title":{"rendered":"Half Hexie EPP"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_45890\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45890\" style=\"width: 165px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/wp-15567290132508540351620417079574.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-45890\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/wp-15567290132508540351620417079574-165x300.jpg\" alt=\"Half Hexie EPP - May 2019\" width=\"165\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/wp-15567290132508540351620417079574-165x300.jpg 165w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/wp-15567290132508540351620417079574-768x1396.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/wp-15567290132508540351620417079574-563x1024.jpg 563w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/wp-15567290132508540351620417079574-1200x2182.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/wp-15567290132508540351620417079574.jpg 1650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 165px) 85vw, 165px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-45890\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Half Hexie EPP &#8211; May 2019<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The other day <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/half-hexie-section\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I showed a piece of the Half Hexie EPP<\/a> I was working on. I have spent some time since then attaching it to the larger piece.<\/p>\n<p>I often think I am in a good place with this piece, then I look at the whole thing and realize I haven&#8217;t made the progress I wanted. That was the case when I looked at this whole piece as I was photographing it. It is still too skinny. I need to make it wider.<\/p>\n<p>I have been thinking I would square up the top and bottom then make it wider. Somehow it just keeps getting longer and appears to be skinnier.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_45891\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45891\" style=\"width: 263px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/wp-15567291223681045269744643072627.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-45891\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/wp-15567291223681045269744643072627-263x300.jpg\" alt=\"New Half Hexie EPP section\" width=\"263\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/wp-15567291223681045269744643072627-263x300.jpg 263w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/wp-15567291223681045269744643072627-768x875.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/wp-15567291223681045269744643072627-898x1024.jpg 898w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/wp-15567291223681045269744643072627-1200x1368.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 263px) 85vw, 263px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-45891\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New Half Hexie EPP section<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Fortunately, I still need some length so the work will not go to waste and I won&#8217;t have to rip it out.<\/p>\n<p>As an aside, I saw an exact match to this quilt (except for the fabrics) on a <a href=\"https:\/\/quiltmuseum.org\/kcstar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kansas City Star page<\/a>. They call it Whirligig. Do I like that name? Maybe.<\/p>\n<p>I am kind of thrilled that the Kansas City Star has a pattern for this quilt. I&#8217;ll have to look it up and see what my copy says about the pattern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I showed a piece of the Half Hexie EPP I was working on. I have spent some time since then attaching it to the larger piece. I often think I am in a good place with this piece, then I look at the whole thing and realize I haven&#8217;t made the progress &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/half-hexie-epp\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Half Hexie EPP&#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":[477],"tags":[209,504,22,252],"class_list":["post-45896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-477","tag-english-paper-piecing","tag-half-hexie-star","tag-hand-piecing","tag-project-quilt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45896","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=45896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53589,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45896\/revisions\/53589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}