Hexagon Quilt--4th QAL Finish 2nd Quarter

It has been a l o n g time in coming! I finished the hexagon quilt!!!!!!!!!!!!
(Is it obvious that I'm excited?) :) I named it--"Totally Hexed."

This is my label. It was a fun project and piecing the hexagons is a great handwork project. Actually, they are addictive! I can see more hexagon projects in my future!

This was a mystery BOM. JoJo Hall over at Through My Hands, designed and shared this project one block at a time at a local quilt shop. It was a challenge, but, for the most part, I completed my block each month! I started quilting this project back in March and posted progress here, here, here, and here.

I used stencils, quilting rulers along the way and learned that using a quilting ruler works best when you couple the ruler with a ruler foot. I still have a lot to learn when it comes to ruler work.

Looking back, I'd suggest picking a color palette. I would see the block and pick fabrics from my little pieces stash. Anything was fair game. I'd also suggest  having only one background fabric. When it came time to find sashing, I struggled. . .BIG TIME. I thank my friend and new neighbor, Pat Curtis for steering me towards the green and the orange!

I had fun adding some crystals to a few of the blocks for a little bling.
The spiders now have eyes!

The Christmas tree has some additional sparkle.

JoJo gave each of us two embroidered bees which added to the bee hive block.

The pumpkin has a little glitz.


















As do the snowflake and the heart.

I generally have a little wiggle on one side of my binding. I don't know how that happens; but, this time, I tried putting a 1/4 piece of seam tape along the quilt edge to help stabilize the edge. Then I first stitched the binding to the back of the quilt. I trimmed the edge and flipped the binding to the front where I was able to machine stitch it. The only handwork is closing the corners, stitching the label on two sides and and stitching the sleeve. Jean Wells, recommended 1/8" grosgrain ribbon; but, I didn't have that in my stash! Actually, I picked up this seam tape at a "sale" last March for five cents! It was 1/2" wide and I just trimmed in half. I needed two packages. It is a little fiddle to work with; but, it is worth the effort!







Ta dah! This is the finished quilt and the THIRD finish of my list for the second quarter of the Finish Along 2016 challenge. You can read about it here.

I entered the hexagon quilt in the county fair. It won a blue ribbon AND best of show! I even won the Clover Wedge Iron as a prize. How cool is that???