T Stands for Tuesday & Cutting Lots of Hexagons

  Hi Everyone, I am writing this on a late Sunday afternoon and it warmed up enough here to rain. It came down as ice for about five minutes than changed over to some much needed rain. Elizabeth I hope you are getting some of this rain as well.
   I would rather have rain at this point than ice or snow.

T Stands for Tuesday where we share a drink related post with friends. The water is on for tea or I can brew up a pot of coffee quick too. Find the link in my right hand column and join us.

  In my previous post I shared a quilt finish-finally- along with photos and the story of the quilt. Link here

  After getting up early this morning I did a few loads of laundry along with the quilt (which looks so wonderful on our bed now that it's been washed and dried)  and then I decided to get out my basket of fabrics for my civil war era hexagon quilt. I had been working most of last week on tax work-so needed a break from that

   I need 46 of the rosettes-I had finished 12 plus the 4 focus fabrics and now need to cut more. I decided today to work on cutting all the fabric needed for these rosettes and doing it all at once I can plan the colors better too. I am working with a jelly roll of civil war fabrics by Barbara Brackman-quilt historian- that I won years ago at one of the fabshophops online. So being in strips it is much easier for me to cut out the hexagons and be on the grain of fabric too. 
    I have hundreds of background hexagons to cut out so I may tackle some of that half way through the sewing of the rosettes as I think that will get pretty boring sewing many pieces with the same two colors. So far I am a bit intimated cutting strips off of yardage for the hexagons-but that's for another day. smiles

This first photo shows a set finished and a peak at that back, and second photo cutting the hexies.  If you are not familiar with this process  (that I believe came from England) you choose what size of hexies you want to make-measure one side of the hexagon-and then for me it was easier to buy this plastic template, and then you need a heavy paper like cardstock to make the hexies finished size. Then you put a template in the middle of one of your fabric hexies-fold over edges and then hand baste securely-but Not through the cardstock. It takes 6 "petals" and one center. I hand sew mine with silk thread. I have a blog friend Val that made me a glass hexagon template that I loved-but I changed up the size to this bigger 1" finished hexagon.

This is my pattern that a blog friend helped me with. Each rosette will have a row of a light beige around it and then around that a chocolate brown to connect them all The center four rosettes is a focus point.

A tin of the hexagon card stock pieces-many people save money by making their own, but I am not very accurate with cutting out things like this so I bought mine.

I cut out fabrics for about 16 rosettes so far today

Photos of my reproduction civil war fabric strips- I have always been in love with this era's colors-very earthy 

I laid out this collection all around me-my desk is always full of stuff lol

In one of my photos you can see my big mug of my decaf herbal beverage with cream.

Happy T for Tuesday