PS: JoyjoyMarie- To make a queen sized qulit, you would either need a huge print or you could use 12 repeats of your fabric and do twice as many hexagons. Which would be a bit much I think. Or you could add creative borders.

Thank you for all the really great compliments everyone! Much, Much appreciated! :D

Great quilt! Still very intimidating to me but I love looking at the ones others have done!

Hi Becky! Thank you!
I checked out the fabrics in that collection and am not sure which one you chose. It is a gorgeous line of fabrics though! I thought there were two possibilities in what i saw that would make good OBWs. I have pasted them below, along with a kaleidoscope image made of each. Is one of the yours?

Very pretty!

Neither of those are the fabric I chose, but I can certainly see that they would be in the same line. Mine has a dark brown background and pewter florals with metallics.

How do you create the second image of the fabric?

By the way, thanks so much for your help.

Very nice.

I couldn't find one like you are describing. But if it is anything like the others in that collection, it must be lovely.

You asked how I create the Kaleidoscope image.
I use Kaleidoscope Kreator 3. EQ7 also has a feature that will do it. Some people use a special mirror tool that they take with them to fabric shops in order to test a fabric for OBW possibilities.

When I first read Maxine Rosenthal's book I was very excited, but also very nervous about choosing the wrong fabric and putting in all that work for a quilt I wouldn't like. So I relied on testing first with Kaleidoscope Kreator before purchasing the fabric. It helped me weed out a lot of choices that would not have been so great.

If you are considering purchasing a fabric online, you can often use the photographic image the seller used. Or you can look up a fabric you found locally and find an image, or even scan or photograph the fabric so you will have a picture to use. It helps to know the scale of the print and fit it correctly into the scale of the hexagon.

I will show you an example of the process I used to decide whether or not to buy a fabric. It isn't entirely accurate because you are working with an image of only a section of the fabric. The real thing will have much more variety, but it certainly gives you an idea if you would like the fabric turned into a OBW. I use the "Paint" program on our computer to "assemble" the hexagons and make a virtual quilt.
And yes, I bought these particular fabrics. :thumbup:

And JoyjoyMarie, after the panel is added, that one is a queen sized quilt.

Beautiful quilt, and I loved all your answers to the comments! So very interesting.

You did an absolutely wonderful job! And the name is perfect for the quilt! I'll bet your daughter is very pleased with her quilt! I sure would be if it were mine! Congratulations!