Doll Quilt Swap 8 - almost done . . .

I'm so excited about this swap. I'm almost done my quilt, which is at least 3 weeks in advance of the deadline, and that's a rare occurence.

I have been wanting to try my hand at hexes for ages now. Paper piecing by hand really appeals to me, since you can grab a handful of fabric and do a few whenever you get a free moment. It's portable (great for during my daughter's dance class and a few stolen moments over coffee break!), and I can do it in front the tv (finally. .getting caught up on the backlog of pvr'd shows!)

Christina has a huge long post about her adventures in hexagons that is super helpful and shows many of the tricks she's learned along the way. Armed with a few printed 1" hex sheets for which she provided the pdf, I got out my rotary cutter and cut out a bunch of 2.5" squares.

I was thinking ROYGIBIV . . the colour spectrun (red, orange, yellow, green, indigo, blue, violet) but in the end I kinda merged the blue and indigo and went a bit aqua . . .I'm super happy with the results and now it's on to binding choices . .I'm thinking a darkish grey to frame the piece. I didn't totally stitck to the rules of swap and mine is a bit non-regulation size, but I think it'll be ok . . .

For the quilting I zipped around the hex formation about a 1/2" from the edge, and then in the ditch around each middle hex of each flower . . then I added some random hexes in two sizes to the white space for a little somethin' somethin'.

I couldn't resist another little hex flower on the back . . .some of this caramel town fabric by lecien had shown up on my doorstep while I was working on the paper piecing and these darn monkeys are CUTE.

I reached in to my scrap bin and did a little patchwork row to finish off the back. I see more hexes in my future . ..

Is anyone else taking part in this fun swap?

- Donna