Hexagon Etude quilt

First day of September and it feels like spring is here.  My Manchurian Pear blossoms are slowly emerging and the jonquils are flowering beautifully.

The last week and a bit I have been very busy.  Or should I say life was hectic.  Our youngest son and family were here for a week’s skiing, I continued with before and after school care every second day with my local grandchildren, squeezed in a trip to Canberra for the 11th anniversary dinner of my quilting friendship group, found out the local gallery wanted a consignment of my naturally dyed scarves and cushions, started packing for our overseas trip this coming week and needed to finish creating my quilt for the Quilter’s Guild of NSW challenge “Hexagon Hype”.  To celebrate their 30th anniversary all members were presented with a hexagon key tag.  The challenge was to make a quilt of any design that included at least one hexagon the same size as the key tag.

I had visualised the quilt I wanted to make as soon as I read about the challenge.  My vision was that just as in music each note has its own unique sound in the context of the composition,  the hexagons, whether the accompaniment/background or the melody/foreground, would each have their own uniqueness.

Everything was coming together well.  I sun dyed the background with some hexagon shapes placed on it.  As it was winter the sun was not hot and was not out for long but I was happy with the effect I got.  I then outlined various hexagon shapes with thread.  I touched up the gold fabric with some slight blueish tinge in places and cut out the trumpet, then painted the shadows.  Then it was time for the hexagon notes to flow out of the trumpet with the ‘finale’ note being the size of the key tag.  Tonight I printed the label cut out the facings and then trimmed the quilt.

Well I trimmed it and it will not be going to the challenge.  I was so concentrated on the final size that I forgot the seam allowances.  I cut it out and started to pin the facings and . . . . realisation hit!!!!!!!  I couldn’t believe what I had done.   Well there will be no entry from me but a quilt was made.  If I had time I may have come up with a solution but even though it is not due till the end of the week  I just haven’t the time to do anything else.  Oh Well.