First Flimsy Finish of 2021!
I finally finished assembling all my hand-pieced flamingo hexagons. I made over 100 pieced hexagons, and threw in a number of plain hexies to even things out.
The flamingo hexie quilt began in April, 2017 - inspired by Barb Vedder's Hex Vex quilt and pattern kit. I prioritized finishing the project in 2020 and focused lots of hand-stitching time on the individual hexies and then stitching them all together as a flimsy.
This week involved a lengthy session of removing the paper pieces behind all the hexie parts, and starching/pressing the top in preparation for quilting.
I also prepped the quilt backing, which includes another chunk of flamingo fabric that didn't get used in the hexies.
In other news -
You may remember I was contemplating a t-shirt quilt marathon to use up a large collection of vintage t-shirts.
I found a chunk of Kaffe Fassett Paperweight (in gray) fabric in my stash that worked perfectly for sashing these shirts together. I had to order additional fabric (Glorious Color; no affiliation, but they shipped the fabric the same day I ordered it!) for borders, so I'm waiting on that.
This will be shirt #1 for Dear Husband. Some of these shirts are pretty stained, and there are some holes, but I couldn't convince DH to swap them out for shirts in better condition. They all have happy memories for him, so I'm happy to help preserve the memories. The fabrics being auditioned above probably won't get used in this quilt, as I found a big chunk of light blue and gray scrap that will be perfect for sashing, and some blue Grunge that will work for the borders. Yay for shopping in the stash!
I'm contemplating how to approach this stash of Dear Son's shirts. There are 22 shirts here, and not all of them have large designs, so I may do some cutting and piecing of the t-shirt designs to keep the quilt from being a monstrous size.
Time to stop procrastinating and get back to the t-shirt quiltathon!
