And becomes more and more beautiful day by day.
Delight in silence, noise, gestures delights in its darknes…
Forest! I love you with my soul!” Wlodzimierz Wyslocki 1885 year.
I found that lovely poem by Wlodzimierz Wysocki and I think that it depicts my feelings when I look at my new quilt.
As you know I love the One Block Wonder method. This time I picked up a panel designed by Chong A-Hwang as a part of her collection “Deep Forest”.
The panel is quite big 60cm x 110cm, so the quilt came out big as well. Below you can see how the panel looks like.
When I saw it, I knew right away that the colors of that panel will be a perfect match to my room. I ended up buying seven panels, six for OBW, and one more for the center.
Next, I put six of the panels one over the other and pinned them well.
I once wrote about this before, but now I can show you this method with the help of pictures. When the panels were pinned, I measured them and divided them into equal parts.
I always divide my panels not in centimeters but in inches. I find it much easier to divide them, cut them, and then sew them together.
By the way I do not use metric rulers that often, I prefer the imperial system. I will not lie, making the switch was difficult at first.
When I was cutting my panels, I had to be careful not to run through the pins that were I used to join the panels. And here I could use my newest rotary knife in this fabulous color, which I got from Mr.Jacek Wrobel, the Olfa representative in Poland.
The color of the knife matches my room too.
After all the strips were cut out, they needed to be cut again but this time into 60° triangles. In order to do that you do not need any special ruler; this regular imperial ruler has 60° marked on it.
The stack of triangles started to get rather large and this meant two things, one, that there will be a lot of hexagons, and two, that there will be a lot of sewing.
I first connected half of hexagons, whose seams I pressed with my rolling tool in the rightdirection.
Next, I pinned the half-hexagons together. I needed to be incredibly careful to make all the pieces fit perfectly, in order to do that I pinned them I the center together with needles.
The pin in the center is necessary to make sure the two pieces of fabric are exactly in the center.
Next, I put two pins on the sides to keep the two pieces of fabric securely together. The center pin was then removed because it will interfere with the sewing.
It came out cool.
After sewing the seams had to get pressed. This time second inspector showed up 😊 I must admit, I was surprised by this visit because lately they rarely come by when I am working.
When all hexagons were ready the fun part began which is the assembly.
I changed my conception three times in how they should be arranged around the main panel. It was a good thing that they were all sewn together, otherwise I would have to keep playing with the arrangement using only the half-hexagons. This would have taken much longer.
When everything was ready, I started to join hexagons into one peace.
I admit this is my least favorite step because it never works out perfectly.
The back after sewing looks nice also.
When the whole peace was ready, I sewed it by hand to the main panel and then pulled out my Bernina long-arm machine for the quilting. To make my work easier I got a brilliant idea. I cut the quilting design from freezer paper. Next, I glued them on my top, which was already stretched on the long-arm. I quilted following the template I made. That made my work easier and the final effect came out nice.
After quilting I trimmed the edges and stretched it all on a wood frame.
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