Star Hexagons---slow stitching that's actually pretty fast

I actually love doing hand work.
I am not overly concerned with speedy projects or easy projects.

I love a clever project so sometimes I'm seduced by a new ruler that cuts the time in half. It's for the cleverness not the production value.

I'm not in the business of making thousands of quilts to sell.
I'm in the business of making.

 See the woman playing mandolin? This is a vintage Hoffman scrap, good to the last thread!

Making for the process of making is a good thing sometimes.
 Living with colors.
 For the surprises as pattern and color come together into something larger than either are alone.

 I used Jayne's link's pattern but enlarged it to 125% and taped the printed card stock together.
  Jayne at http://twiggyandopal  showed this project and I was in. A hexie and a star, as well as made with scraps! Yea!

Sewed the points to the hexie first.

Then inserted the backgrounds last.

a second purple star block in progress

This second purple star is undergoing the audition process, here with a pastel moda lavender.

http://nelliesniceties.blogspot.com Pattern source

Here with another black and white print.

  I find it very gratifying to pull out the basting and the papers that are surrounded by stitches, so now my finished blocks have  paper only on the outsides.


I enjoy how they can be moved around and have no earthly idea how I'll set them.
I do not want to lose the overall hexie shape but like how Jayne's create a circle of points.

I don't know where it's going, so I keep making more.

I am okay with that.

Let's see what happens.

I am taking part in so scrappy's Rainbow Scrap Challenge again. The color last month was purple and the color to use this month is Aqua. We choose our projects.
 Join us if you like... we're using our scraps!