May Progress
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janestarzAt the beginning of May I realised I wasn't working on my Brown Hexagon Quilt and I started work on it again. I had cut up a lot of the fabric that was sent to me in my swap, and it was time to start wrapping!
I wrap sets of hexagons. Each 'little tower' in the background (slightly blurred, still can't shoot in RAW, please excuse horrible picture) consists of four or five sets of six hexagons. I also wrapped solids for the border around each flower. This month I haven't attached any hexagons together, I was only wrapping paper.
And I wrapped over 400 hexagons this month.
My plans for the coming month, now that my move is over, is to cut up the remaining fabric from my swap. I'm sorting my 'sets of six' now, so that I don't have to wrap fifty hexagons with the same fabric all at once. Mixing them up is more interesting, and by sorting them into sets of six I can make a whole flower out of each set (all it needs is a heart from the 'rest batch').
To keep it even more abstract: when I cut up my fabric, I put six hexagons on pile 1, the next six on pile 2, etc. until I run out of fabric. I have five or six piles, and by sorting them this way I get a mixed variety of hexagons to wrap (so I'm not wrapping a hundred of the same fabric) without losing track which hexagons are wrapped from the same fabric (some fabrics with a larger motif can wield two completely differently-looking hexagons, which still need to end up in the same flower).
Abstract ahoy! But for those who lost track: OMG I wrapped 400 hexagons this month!
(Only 2900 to go!)
I wrap sets of hexagons. Each 'little tower' in the background (slightly blurred, still can't shoot in RAW, please excuse horrible picture) consists of four or five sets of six hexagons. I also wrapped solids for the border around each flower. This month I haven't attached any hexagons together, I was only wrapping paper.
And I wrapped over 400 hexagons this month.
My plans for the coming month, now that my move is over, is to cut up the remaining fabric from my swap. I'm sorting my 'sets of six' now, so that I don't have to wrap fifty hexagons with the same fabric all at once. Mixing them up is more interesting, and by sorting them into sets of six I can make a whole flower out of each set (all it needs is a heart from the 'rest batch').
To keep it even more abstract: when I cut up my fabric, I put six hexagons on pile 1, the next six on pile 2, etc. until I run out of fabric. I have five or six piles, and by sorting them this way I get a mixed variety of hexagons to wrap (so I'm not wrapping a hundred of the same fabric) without losing track which hexagons are wrapped from the same fabric (some fabrics with a larger motif can wield two completely differently-looking hexagons, which still need to end up in the same flower).
Abstract ahoy! But for those who lost track: OMG I wrapped 400 hexagons this month!
(Only 2900 to go!)
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