One of the attractions to the hexagon quilt was the possibility of embroidering the centre of some of the 'flowers' using Mary Corbett's notion of stitch fun. I enjoyed playing with these stitches in the denim bags and thought it would be fun to play in a similar way with the quilt.I decided to embroider a simple motif on any coloured 'flower' that had a plain fabric hexagon in the centre. I used the stitches I had already practised on the denim bags and added a few.
Hexagons really lend themselves to this treatment because of their shape. Whereas Mary Corbet begins many of her stitches by marking out dots in a circle, the hexagon provides six points to use without needing to mark the fabric. This was particularly so with star stitch, which I hadn't tried before.
This felt very similar.
The stars and checks are from a piece of Christmas fabric and the red carnations fabric came as part of a 2013 Christmas gift - in the wrapping for one of Hagar Arnon Elbaz's fabulous necklaces.
I am pleased with progress on the embroidery - I have embroidered different things on other centres - some examples coming soon.
6 comments:
these look great and what a good Maths teacher, he must have made your maths lessons much more fun and so you then learn far more too
Thanks Margaret. The Matgs teacher was a woman and she was terrific- my favourite teacher and I did really well at Maths because of her.
One of the most fun things about quilting is the chance to remember where all the different fabrics came from. I see you are well into that too!
I love all the stars! I admired them on Mary's site. I don't know where I would use them, but I may try a couple anyway. It's going to be a gorgeous quilt, Jillian!
They look fantastic and make it such a special hexagon quilt.
Thanks Monica and Katherine. The stars age great fun to stitch and good value for effort.
All of your stars look really nicely done Jillian. I have yet to try this stitch.
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