With a pending road trip and a conference next month, I have been prepping hexie projects in my spare time. I'm still cutting kites and triangles for my
hexie puzzle. I'm even working on the second
Star Blossom that I need for my matching hexie shaped side tables in the living room.
I am also cutting half hexies for a new project!! I'm calling it twisted hexies. Very original (and probably what I've seen it called around the internet).
Anyways...it's made of half hexies in batiks that surround a black hexie center. It should be a wash of color when it's done! I had wanted to have a black batik for the center but they are darn near impossible to find in these here parts. What do you think of this tone-on-tone black instead of a batik? Do you think it will take away from the other batiks?
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Yes! That is a cat tail - you convince her not to "help" when I am taking pictures... |
Of course, I have been so in love with the batiks that I think I have way more cut than I can possibly baste up in a weekend, let alone that I only have 50 if the half-hexie papers.
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Look around your studio for templates you may already have, instead of buying something. I discovered this template to make half hexies from charm squares was actually "close enough for who it's for" when it came to cutting these batik half hexies. |
That should keep my fingers busy for 10+ hours of riding in the car ... now if it was only half as easy to pick which clothes to pack...
3 comments:
I think that black will work just fine. You just need black, whether batik or not, to pop the colors--the eye is going to go to the beautiful batiks, IMHO.
Love the tail pointer! : )
The black fabric is perfect. I have made a quilt like this a couple of years ago. I'll post it in Hexagon Alley tomorrow.
Clever you! Glad you are enjoying your hexies so much
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