busy fingers

During the week ckcowl showed us her lovely grandma's flower garden table runnerand I asked her a few questions as I have been working on my "hexagon" experiment for far too and need to make decisions about how I am going to finish them off. Here are some of my flowers - I have 12 of them finished
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And I have this idea to attach them to a 15" block then add sashing between the blocks - something like in the photo below - the fabric is only an example not what I intend using in the final product.
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So I am asking all the hexagon experts do you think that my idea of appliquing the large flowers onto a background block then putting sashing between the blocks will work.

I am open to all suggestions and ideas as to how to go about this please.

Muse&Sew

I think that will be fantastic! Beautiful work. Love your hexagons.

Gay

This is another one on my to-do list. I really like your idea, and prefer that to not using the sashing. Another thought is to fit them together (applique) leaving an inch or so between each flower, this way would show the background fabric.

mucky

I don't care for the sashing either

DOTTYMO

Not sure about the white and red background. Have you thought of black and just joining blocks with no slashing.?

ckcowl

Your flowers are lovely! Of course appliquing them onto background squares is a good idea and works well. As for the sashing strips... Personal choice. I think they could work well. You could even make some little flowers to use on setting squares between the sashing strips. Visit Pinterest & search hexagon ( or Grandmother's Flower Garden) quilts, you will find lots of inspiration.

DianneK

your hexies are beautiful

Hattie

It is a lovely idea, however, since the hexagon flowers are a little heavy, I would add a stabilizer to the background material.

Just Jan

I made a couple bed runners this way several years ago. I had rescued some antique "flowers" in a very fragile state, and wanted to save them. I appliqued them to off white background squares and used soft green with white pin dots for the sashing. I wanted green to represent leaves but choose the light pin-dot fabric to give it a softer, antique, non competitive look. I gave one as a Christmas gift to a dear fiend and kept one for myself. Mine is currently packed away somewhere. I had forgotten about it until I saw your post Think I will get it out for Spring soon.

ManiacQuilter2

I love your blocks, they are absolutely beautiful but I think the red just looks wrong. I agree, when the blcoks are finished, just see how they look with no sashing. The blcoks are the star of this table runner.