Old 04-17-2011, 09:33 PM
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Try making a Grandmother's flower Garden quilt with a lot of quilt as you go hexagons. You cut the top hexagon and batting the same size. Then you cut the backing fabric hexagon half an inch bigger all around. Sandwich them together by folding the back fabric over the batting and top fabric. Sew the edges down and hand quilt as desired. When you have a lot of hexagon sandwiches you whip stitch them together to form a quilt and everything is finished. It is sort of like English piecing but you don't remove the template as the batting acts as the template. The Japanese do this type of quilting and the reverse side is just as interesting as the front. You could make squares if you don't want to cut hexagons.
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