This week I have been busy with piecing hexagons by using paper lining technique that I just learned. I started from cutting many paper templates, wrapping them with fabric and basting. This time I chose pink & purple as main colors.
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| Layout of my hexagon flowers |
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| Paper template wrapped with fabric and basted |
I spent hours to choose fabrics and swap the pollens around flowers, it's fun though. For the background, I don't want to use just plain white color, so I selected some off white print fabrics to add a little detail on it.
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| Started joining from the orange-pink flower then make it bigger and bigger |
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| Ripped the basting stitches out |
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| No basting thread on & paper in orange-pink flower |
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| It's growing. The paper templates were removed except the outermost ones. |
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| Done! |
I'm planning to make a bag from this top. Let me sleep on it and see what I come up with.
I've been basting and sewing hexagons this week too. Some I do not know what to do with yet, so I look forward to seeing what you make with yours.
ReplyDeleteSo pretty! I tried this and didn't enjoy it. The technique is called English Paper Piecing, or EPP for short. You can find a lot of free templates and patterns on the Internet if you Google one of those terms
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