The latest hexie stars

I'm piecing these hexie stars by hand.

Hexies? How hard could they be??? Really difficult as it turns out.

I prepared lots of papers and fabric scraps from my scrap bins to sew on the trip but I didn't work on them.

the block measures 5" each side, and fits inside a 9 inch square when pieced

Look at those happy piggies! And I've used that black fabric with colorful bits many times.
The background is a mix of cream prints.

Remember I made them larger, then traced off outside triangles to print by themselves. (The pattern includes all shaped pieces) (http://nelliesniceties.blogspot.com Pattern source)

Since I make lots of blocks, and you can't remove the outside papers til you sew around them, I needed lots more white triangle paper pieces. Having a sheet of those pieces ready to copy --on thicker paper --really helps.

I also make lots of components then arrange them into a star, sew that, and use it to audition backgrounds.

look at this colorful one... the color challenge at So Scrappy this month is to use multicolored scraps

One of my bee mates gave me this strip once, and it's just wide enough to place the template on it so the dots go across . I am in LURVE!!! I want yardage of it now, but alas it was a leftover, throwaway scrap.

That's the thing about scraps... they look like waste but when sewn into a block look terrific!
That center? Long ago I entered the Hoffman challenge every year. That center was the fabric the year I did a woman's hair from that fabric, cutting tendrils out, and curls. She looked out over a horizon with a sunrise.

Still finishing up the red stars and this time I mixed fabrics in the star, keeping backgrounds the same.

Ditto. I think this is a fine background for poinsettia fairy, don't you?
Only four blocks finished so far but you get the idea

Once again, something from nothing. The concept for me, unlike modern type quilters, is to vary the backgrounds. I do not want to lose the overall hexie lines so I am not piecing stars into "Kona snow" or just one background. I want to see the individual blocks this time.

After all, they weren't easy and I worked for it!!
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