{"id":643,"date":"2008-11-22T18:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-23T01:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/puzzling-through-the-eye-spy\/"},"modified":"2016-05-23T20:38:25","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T03:38:25","slug":"puzzling-through-the-eye-spy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/puzzling-through-the-eye-spy\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzling Through the Eye Spy"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week was kind of crazy week work-wise for us. As I result, last night was the first time I got back to the Eye Spy. I spent the time with a bit of sewing, a bit of cutting and lot of puzzling. I am puzzling through the best way to put it together. As you may know, I like to jump right in and start sewing. This gets me into trouble sometimes, but I do enjoy just sewing. Puzzling through problems isn’t so bad as I can’t always visualize the whole process. Of course, if the problems become too problematic then the quilt pieces usually go back into the closet.<\/p>\n

I started working on the sewing on that Sunday where I introduced the piece<\/a> but I didn’t take the edges into account. I am very much into my self bordering technique<\/a> and would like to use it here. I used it on the Interlocking Triangles quilts and some others. Essentially it means that I don’t like to hack off bits of a border block to end the quilt.<\/p>\n

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\nI attempted to work on this yesterday while I was sewing triangles to hexagons. My dilemma<\/span>, defined, is that I really don’t want to just randomly hack off the edges to make a straight side. Nor do I want to apply a binding to an edge that needs a miter every two inches.<\/p>\n

First, I broke the hexagons I have sewed into two groups. Left, the pieces are arranged in a way where the triangles are pointing up. In this orientation, there are no straight edges. The side edges could be okay with a slightly irregular edge made by putting the piece together in chunks using diamonds (see far left).<\/p>\n

The top and bottom edges would be a piecing nightmare, however, because I would have to inset triangles somehow. I can imagine that this would be a top that ended up becoming a permanent member of the UFO\/ WIP list.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Right, the hexagons are arranged in a way where the triangles are pointed to the left. This is the way that Simply Quilts<\/a> suggested putting this top together and what the directions on the package of templates<\/a> suggest. Still, hacking off the edges to make this work makes me cringe. I was considering putting fabrics that were allover prints on the edges so the mutilation wouldn’t be as brutal. I don’t know.<\/p>\n

Options:<\/p>\n

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  1. Hack off the top & bottom or the sides, depending on layout.<\/li>\n
  2. Choose to piece the quilt in chunks using diamonds and do inset piecing to make a straight edge along the top and bottom.<\/li>\n
  3. Deal with very uneven edge in the binding process.<\/li>\n
  4. Add some other shaped pieces to the edge in a uniform color (more red?) to make the edge square.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \"\"<\/a> Left is a detail of the corner of the piece with the section I have sewn together and arranged with the triangles placed pointing left.<\/p>\n

    I’ll have to troll the web and look at what others have done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    This week was kind of crazy week work-wise for us. As I result, last night was the first time I got back to the Eye Spy. I spent the time with a bit of sewing, a bit of cutting and lot of puzzling. I am puzzling through the best way to put it together. As … Continue reading “Puzzling Through the Eye Spy”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[388],"tags":[352,269,139,331,332,54,141],"class_list":["post-643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-388","tag-construction","tag-eye-spy","tag-hexagons","tag-piecing","tag-projects","tag-self-bordering","tag-williams-quilts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}