YDritch said:

Just **thinking** about Tom Selleck makes me smile!

I dated a guy in college for 3 years specifically because he had a Tom Selleck mustache.

It's not that I'm particularly attracted to facial hair, but Tom is just damned cute!

nice, love how they fit the table.  I'm curious, did you quilt then on your LA or home machine?

Dee in TX (DBRADFOR3) said:

I'm curious, did you quilt then on your LA or home machine?

on my home machine with a walking foot.   These weren't worth loading up on the LA ... especially since I had already cut out the wedge shape once the fusible batting had been adhered to the backing.

I started on the "True colors" mini quilt this weekend.  Each square is 2" finished, the circles are about 1" - the finished wall hanging will be about 24" square, depending on what I do for the borders.  I need to pull some more fabrics to fill out the colors - these were just scraps out of the recent basket.  I did use the applipops.  Not sure how I feel about them.  I sewed down one circle and it went better than I expected.  The circles actually end up with two "folds" because of the thickness of the metal circles.  My OCD wants there to be 1 fold, but I think if I am consistent and catch the bottom fold with the needle, it will be fine (and hide the stitches too) once it is washed/pressed.  You can see the two "folds" in the yellow picture.  More like sewing down a fabric button.

I agree Shelley, I like that Hexie arrangement better than the flower look!  And your placemats look great on your round table.

Dee in TX (DBRADFOR3) said:

Each square is 2" finished, the circles are about 1" - the finished wall hanging will be about 24" square,

Holy moley!  Are you insane?!?!?!

2" squares with 1" circles????   You are out of your ever-lovin' mind!

where are my smelling salts???


PS.   But it's gonna look drop dead gorgeous!

oh it's not that bad - your hexies aren't any larger than that are they?  I don't want it any larger - I'm running out of wall space and have more than enough bed quilts and sofa throws.  Now that i look at it again, the circle is 1.25"  Which may be too large once I sew the seams seams on the block.  Need to decide that before I sew any more circles down. hmmm.  Not much of the back fabric is going to show. 

Nope, I do not feel up to repressing all those circles - 1.25" it is.  that has been the most painful part - literally - burned fingers.

there are 61 blocks.  that is a lot of circles.  But sewing them down will be pretty routine.  the hardest part is deciding exactly how to lay out the colors (opportunity to overthink...)

I found the instructions to my circle templates..........the actual templates are in Colorado and I am in New Mexico but I have used them before and they worked great and are very thin so there is a nice crisp crease. They are Perfect Circles by Karen Kay Buckley. I know there are two different sets and I got the smaller set. I will have to pull them out when I get back to Colorado and make sure they are in my stuff I carry back and forth that I do not have duplicates of.

Maybe you could make a smaller seam allowance on this project to maximize the amount of the background fabric, like you said it is a small wall quilt so I am sure that an accurate 1/8" seam allowance would work..........that is what I would do so the rest of you can call me insane...............again!