EPP Mat
When I started the New to Me pastime of EPP Hexies earlier in the month, I can’t say that I wasn’t warned about how addictive Hexies can be…
I used them, whilst still in progress, for another New to Me project – The Small Crochet Frame Purse Tutorial – but my actual piecing wasn’t great and I didn’t want to end up with a badly pieced quilt so I decided to consider it a practice piece and finish it up as as a mat to go under the dish drainer! I also don’t know if I really have the time or patience to make an EPP double bed sized quilt so I decided to start a smaller EPP project using some scraps of a ruined vintage table cloth…
EPP with upcycled vintage linen
…and to machine piece the quilt using larger hexagons.
I think I’m going to be hexie-ing for a while.
Hexagon Sewing
I’m linking this post with:
Fiona at Celtic Thistle Stitches for New to Me
Happy Sewing!
Janine @ Rainbow Hare
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Carol
Oh, they can be addictive! I save my scraps all year and make hexies in the winter. Is it a project that ever ends? I use a punch to make my templates so at least I am recycling some paper as well.
xx, Carol
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Celtic Thistle Stitches
What a lovely array of hexies Janine, great upcycling of the vintage linen too.
Thanks for linking up to New to Me too.
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Tracy Pursley
I love the idea of the dish drainer mat. This would almost make doing dishes a pleasure!
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Janine @ Rainbow Hare
Almost :)
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Kate Heads
The great thing about hexes are they are so transportable, not like a sewing machine hehe! Lovely colours.
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Maria
A dish drainer mat? What a wonderful idea, Janine…and such a pretty one too!!! I love the idea of using hexies cut from old embroidered linen…it looks great! I think a large quilt made of hexies is often an ongoing project done over a few years…one day I might start one! Lol
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FVITH
It nearly seems a shame to let your dishes drip onto this mat, but it sure does look pretty.
I refuse to make hexies for fear that I might catch the hexie bug :)
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Kim Sharman
Such pretties hexies, Janine. Love the little touch of the embroidered linen in the centre. Now I am waiting to see a double bed size hexie……you know you want to. =)
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Benta
Oh yes, you are hooked!!!! If you ever want a zillion templates cut for s project I’ve got a sizzix and lots of different size dies. You mentioned machine piecing … Y seams???? If you like the design with hexies and triangles that can easily be machine pieced xxxx
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Sandra :)
Crafting + addictive in the same sentence = something so many of us have to keep in check, lol. I like Carol’s idea to save specific projects for winter time! Your hexies – and drainer mat – are sweet :)
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soma @ whimsandfancies.com
Although I think your hexie mat is too pretty to be used for a dish drainer mat, I love the idea! The hexie with the vintage linen is beautiful too. I wonder what you will be making next :)
-Soma
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issabella's quilts
I love these! I’m on a QAYG hexi kick at the moment and loving them, might pinch your idea for a drainer mat 😆
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Jules
Hi Janine, if you’re into EPP have you seen the Millefiore quilts,they are something else. I started one this year and I have not designated it my ten year project :o)
I’m loving the draining board mat, very pretty.
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