2020 Museum Challenge Wall Hanging - "Hexies"

I've talked about this before.  The guild members are challenged to make a smaller quilt for the town Museum.  The display for the quilts is up usually all of May and June.  It is always a popular display with residents and tourists.  This year the museum was closed because of the (dreaded) Corona Virus.  We'll hopefully use these quilts next year when it's open.  This year's challenge was to make anything you wanted with the size 12" x 48".  I used the opportunity to make a "hexie" quilt.  You form a small piece of fabric around a hexagon paper pattern, basting it on and then hand stitching to the next hexie.  It's called "English Paper Piecing" and it's lots of fun but very time consuming.  I appliqued the edge to a strip of black fabric and hand quilted it.

 

2020 Full Size String quilt

I had a box full of strips of plaid fabric.  To make String quilts, you sew onto a foundation of either light weight fabric or paper.  I sewed these strips to 6 1/'2" fabric, then squared them up to 6 1/2".  When the foundation is fabric I usually don't add batting in the middle.  It makes a light weight quilt handy for storing in the car for picnics, or emergencies.  The back is more of my plaid fabric in plain squares.

 

2020, Small Twin Size - My Colorful Quilt and Lap Size HST

My friend, Leslie, gave me a box of quilt books, and a box full of fabric she was given by her guild friends.  In the box was lots of wonderful fabric, including 10 blocks for this quilt.  It must have been a monthly challenge, there were printed patterns for the blocks.  I made two more blocks - the one on the left, a red and blue basket, and the one on the bottom in the middle.  I couldn't see how I could machine quilt it with all the different patterns, so I hand quilted it.  I use all my sitting and watching tv time for 3 weeks to get the quilting done.  I love hand quilting, but it's too time consuming to do it often.

When I was finished with the top quilt I had all this wonderful fabric left.  No way could I put it away so I made this quilt.  I love making HST's (half square triangles)  I made squares until I used up the fabric.  Rather than put the squares together randomly, I grouped like squares together.  I Really love this quilt.

 

2020, Baby Size

At the quilt guild Christmas party, someone gave me a packet of 5"squares.  I added some of my fabric and made this quilt for a baby.  I really like it for some reason, it's unusual.  The bottom picture is the back I made for it from my stash.  I think it matches so well.

 

2020 Log cabin and pillows

My friend, Georgia, gave me a bunch of fabric with the UFO's (unfinished objects) that were started by her mother.  This orange quilt, lap sized, had 4 blocks made and I made 12 more to make the quilt.  I drafted the sizes of the pieces to make the blocks and so I could make the block again.  I decided I really enjoy making this block.  I made up the back from the left over fabric.

I also found these parts of pillows, started but not finished.  I machine quilted the blue one, fun.  The other two tops were already quilted, I'm making pillow forms for them and finishing the pillows to give back to Georgia.