Quilting the centre hexagon diamond in Good Golly Miss Mollie

I've started to quilt the hexagon diamond block that is in the middle of the quilt. This is the block before it was stitched into my quilt Good Golly Miss Mollie which is my version of the Godstone Grannies coverlet. Each hexagon is 3/4" and I'm doing the quilting on my domestic sewing machine, a Juki TL2010Q.

I've quilted the pale yellow round with feathers and I'll show that to you but first I want to talk about the dark rust outer round of hexagons. I used my darning foot and free motion quilted straight lines. I didn't need to use the walking foot because the distance to quilt on each hexagon was short. The trick was to find spots to stop so that I could reposition my hands and that point was the inner point where two hexagons join.

I left this for several days before deciding what next. Because this is the centre of the quilt I want the quilting to be interesting. I finally decided on a simple feather motif. I started at the lower left and worked my way to the top. I them moved to the lower right and worked my way to the top. You can also see some quilting in the pale yellow hexagons. Notice that I again used the fiddlehead motif at the top.

Here you can see the difference this bit of quilting made to the rust round of hexagons. The left side is filled in with the feathers and the right side is not.

I quilted some feather motifs in the pale yellow. I haven't decided how I will quilt the taupe hexagons or the four in the centre. For now I'll just move on and quilt another area. Eventually the quilting solution will come to me!

Here is the block with the feathers quilted all the way around on the rust hexagons.

I hope I've given you some ideas for quilting hexagons! Until I post again, happy sewing!
Karen H

Another GG Block

On May 9 I wrote about how I altered a fabric that I wanted to use in my version of the Godstone Grannies (GG) coverlet. If you missed it you will find it here.  I had the right fabric for the block but it was the wrong colour (the hexagon on the left in the picture below). I had planned on using my yellow Sakura pen but it ran out of ink (the hexie in the middle). I used watercolour paint and textile medium to tint the fabric to the desired shade (the hexie on the right)! I cut out all of my hexagons, basted them to the foundation paper and tinted them.

I watered down the yellow watercolour paint and then added the textile medium. All of the hexagons were painted and allowed to sit for 24 hours. The colour was heat set with a medium heat iron. In addition to these yellow hexagons I added three other fabrics (the fabric on the far right is the one that I tinted with the paint and textile medium).

Voila - the finished GG block! I also used a black Sakura pen to blacken the edges of the yellow hexagons where they touched the center hexagon.

This block is one of a pair and the second one is cut, basted, painted and ready to be stitched. I am pleased with how my block turned out! If the paint-textile medium is used sparingly the fabric remains soft and pliable. At this point I estimate that half of the blocks are finished. The remaining blocks are all basted and are waiting to be stitched together. Most of the path is cut and basted so it should go a little more quickly from here on!

Before I go I thought I would share another one of the blocks from my Ausiegons quilt. One of the fun parts about making the quilt was the ability to experiment with colour combinations and print combinations. I learned so much and in the end all of the blocks worked together. I am fond of this colour combination!

There'll be no post tomorrow but I'll be back on Thursday. Until I post again, happy sewing!
Karen H