The Hexagons March On

[crockpotcauldron]

I have put together 340 hexagons this month, in between other things. That's a fifth of the quilt. While I am happy to have visible progress, I also really just want the quilt already, and a fifth seems like a pittance, especially since my rosy-eyed goal for the month was almost half a quilt. I have begun bribing myself with stickers. I'm gonna have at least 70 cute little stickers at the end of this.

I have learned several valuable lessons so far:

1) Don't make a large quilt by hand out of small hexagons
2) Stop using questionable fabrics and small seam allowances
3) If your pattern tesselates, you really do have to accurately cut your templates
4) It's easier to make progress if you don't let the numbers intimidate you

But also I just really want the dang quilt finished and on my bed.

Comments

[chickadee_sun]

I'm not even a quilter but when I think of using a small seam allowance on a project like that or small inaccuracies in templates throwing off the whole tessellation I shudder.

It sounds like a really hard project. Glad you're making progress!

[crockpotcauldron]

Thanks! There are so many dang hexagons but it looks so good. Fabric does stretch a bit, so it's a little more forgiving in tesselation than something like paper.

[chickadee_sun]

How obvious is it in the finished product that there were issues? Does the fabric come out weirdly stretched or bunched up in places?

[crockpotcauldron]

I don't know yet, actually. I will be assembling hexagons for a good long while. So far, some of the blocks are curling up a bit, but I think that's because of the paper pieces, which will come out. I've moved the seams a millimeter or two if things looked weird, so we will see what happens when I get to quilting.