While doing a little web surfing Esther discovered a Portuguese video of a lady (with yapping dogs in background) demonstrating how to turn a hexagon into a cute little fabric star of diamonds.
The very clever Esther, with no Portuguese language, managed to follow the visual instructions and then demonstrated to the Tarts present. We all managed a star of sorts and were very impressed with the results. Much like a funky Suffolk puff (good thing all Emma's siblings are married!). There was general agreement that these were the best use for hexagons, though Esther won a prize bag of rubber stamped hexagons and the stamp and is proceeding to create lovely flowers potentially for a Grandmother's Flower Garden.
Esther and Barb - the crotchety quilters? - no the crocheting quilters have been keeping their hooks busy. Abe says Esther needs about another metre for him to fit comfortably under her chevron crochet! Esther's crochet afghan motifs are finished but she has run out of wool before stitching them together!
Emma had the colourque blocks to show. They have all been touched up to match each other's intensity and have had the textile medium applied. There will be a pink & white checkerboard border between the blocks and a graduated checkerboard border around the outside.
Jennifer and Carole were industriously working on projects, but sorry I don't quite know what they were (I would not get a job in telepathy!) Emma was putting final touches on her Christmas anagram wall hanging and auditioning her Christmas silhouette fabrics - Jennifer and Esther have dibs on any ombre leftovers! Emma's having such fun having drawn up the three huge blocks with the aid of an overhead projector and has already traced the stable scene onto
vliesofix. She is not sure there will be leftovers, although there might be smaller versions of the same quilt for "Show and Tell" next month at the rate she is going!
Portuguese Fabric Stars
Learning to make the hexagon stars
Completed Scquilty Tart Hexagon Star
Usual industrious group
Zooming in on Carole, Jennifer and Barb
Jennifer
Barb
Emma
Barb and Esther display their Afghans
That's all for November, but don't forget to come in December.
