With the exhibition piece "going south", ( see previous post) I decided to take a bit of a break before starting over. This piece has been bugging me to finish it for awhile. I have a pile of hexies that I hand piece, during those few moments when I'm watching tv. It's always a challenge to figure out what I'm going to do with them once they're pieced. I was going to make a knitting roll (organizer) with these, but it kept telling me that it wanted to be a tote. Since the knitting roll would take another metre or more of fabric, and I don't knit, I agreed. I FMQ'd it using Superior Theads' Fantasia 5207--a yellow/orange/red/purple variegated Trilobal Polyester, that I've found to be a very useful and versatile thread. I use my take on McTavishing, but once it was finished found that the quilting disappeared into the hexies. The whole piece looked much better on what was to be the inside than what was to have been the outside.
Above is what was to have been the inside of the piece, with the FMQ'g complete. and below is what was to have been the outside of the piece complete with FMQ'g. The basic square ( and it must be a square) finished to about 17 1/2" square, which was then bound.
Here it is clipped together ready to hand stitch.
Once it was stitched, I added a twisted cord of #8 perle cotton, and a plastic curtain ring wrapped with the same #8 perle cotton, so the closure could be tied, as well as a small carrying handle.
The finished tote is large enough to hold a hand work project and supplies.
I plan to link this with The Needle and Thread Network
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