Monday 4 July 2016

Mrs Holder Row 16

My Mrs Holder Reproduction Quilt is progressing well.

Row 16 is on - it has 90 stretched hexagons using  8 different fabrics.


I have used a traditional Cook Island Postage Stamp technique
to keep my hexies in order. I chose the order, laid them 
out around the quilt to check that it would work and then 
threaded them onto a long piece of embroidery 
thread - all six strands.


Just  put a knot on the starting end of the thread so you can easily 
pull one hexie at a time of the other end as you need it.






I had fun raiding my stash of 1800s reproduction fabrics for this row.

Next comes a brown row - also more scrappy.

Back soon.




4 comments:

  1. Brilliant! Love your quilt!

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  2. Thank you Paulette. I am really enjoying making it. I got the hexies for the next brown row prepared last night.

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  3. All those hexies! Thanks for the tip how to keep them in order,
    xx

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  4. Thanks Radka. It certainly makes it easier and I am less likely to put the wrong one on.

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