Having posted photographs of the bed quilt, I thought I'd share the other project which I was working on concurrently. It was a smaller piece of work but no less intense - a wall-hanging, and for added pressure it was to be a special Christmas present. I began work in about June 2011 and completed it about a week before Christmas. 108 flowers, each made up of 7 small hexagons - yep, that's 756 hexagons. It was a real labour of love. A couple of pics to show how it began life.....The rows of flowers were carefully(ish) worked out to avoid major colour and pattern clashes.
And then Nutmeg came to supervise – I’d be nothing without
my muse!
And here is the wall-hanging in situ. The photograph really
doesn't do it justice. It measures approx. 47 x 30 inches. It's a fairly time-consuming shape to hand-stitch but I loved working with hexagons.
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