{"id":57764,"date":"2022-11-16T07:09:09","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T15:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=57764"},"modified":"2022-11-05T20:12:46","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T03:12:46","slug":"half-hexie-star-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/half-hexie-star-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Half Hexie Star Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Half Hexie Star: what I have done so far<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I was still recovering from my oral surgery last Friday as I prepared for Sew Day after work. With a full week of work and the aftereffects of the surgery under my belt, I was tired. I thought hard about staying home, but decided to go. I wanted to see my friends and participate in the Destash party.<\/p>\n

In order not to completely exhaust myself, I decided to bring as little as possible with me. I needed a small project without a lot of pieces and parts. For example, I did not want to bring a sewing machine. The La Pass BOM would have been the perfect project, but it is delayed again.<\/p>\n

It occurred to me that I could bring the Half Hexie Star quilt, put it up on the design wall and make a plan to get it finished. Looking at it and making a plan had been on my list for a long time and Sew Day provided the perfect opportunity.<\/p>\n

I did it! And it worked!<\/p>\n

I now have a plan to finish this quilt. I can see the light at the end of the Half Hexie tunnel, which is a finished quilt. This is very exciting. I thought this would be one of those quilts I would finish in 10 years.<\/p>\n

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Half Hexie Star: top two rows<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

First, this may be the first time I have ever put this quilt up on the design wall and looked at it vertically. I have laid it out on the floor, but seeing it on the design wall is better.<\/p>\n

Second, I figured out what I needed to do to even up the sides. I plan to finish the two rows I have started on the top (see arrows) and call it done. I am not going to add more rows to make it bigger.<\/p>\n

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Half Hexie Star: side<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A lot of people came and talked to me about the quilt. One of my guild mates asked what the final size would be. I looked at her, confused. She clarified that she wanted to know whether the pattern said it would be a twin or another size. She also wanted to know if I made enough stars to complete the pattern. Clearly she doesn’t know me that well. I laughed and said I wasn’t using a pattern. I said it would be as big as I felt like making it. This was a foreign concept to my guild mate.<\/p>\n

At that point, I decided that it would be pretty much as big as we could see on the design wall right then.<\/p>\n

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Half Hexie Stars: right side detail (to do)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I haven’t measured it, though it would have been a good time to do it.<\/p>\n

Next, I tried to think of ways to square up the sides. I pinned stars to the sides to make each side as even as possible, so I could see what I had.<\/p>\n

The top and bottom just need some diamonds and triangles fitted into the open spaces in the stars. The top and bottom will be easy.<\/p>\n

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Half Hexie Stars: Trying to add background<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For the sides, I thought about putting a couple of the half hexie pieces using background fabric in to the sides as a way of getting the sides to be more square. I even sewed some as a test. I was going to go with that solution, which would have made a gentle zig zag edge. I didn’t feel it was an ideal solution.<\/p>\n

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Half Hexie Star: Lindsay’s idea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then Lindsay arrived and we discussed it further. She thought I could add in the triangles and diamonds without the background pieces. It wouldn’t make the edge square, but there would still be a gentle zigzag. The triangles and diamond pieces would match the look of the bottom better. I like this idea much better and will work on it.<\/p>\n

Finally Mary C said that I could use the edge as is – already folded under – and fold the backing under, then whip stitch the top and bottom together rather than applying a standard binding. I think this is a really good idea. If I can work with Colleen to make it happen, I will.<\/p>\n

I am pleased with the various solutions. I am also glad that I will be done with this top soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was still recovering from my oral surgery last Friday as I prepared for Sew Day after work. With a full week of work and the aftereffects of the surgery under my belt, I was tired. I thought hard about staying home, but decided to go. I wanted to see my friends and participate in … Continue reading “Half Hexie Star Plan”<\/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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[519],"tags":[209,504,22,252],"class_list":["post-57764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-519","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\/57764","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=57764"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57788,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57764\/revisions\/57788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}