What Now?

A 60/120 Tutorial

But first, an update on Everlasting Love (needs a better name).  After a couple of days making log cabins in various sizes I abandoned that idea.

I tried big centers -- bad proportion.  I tried little centers -- proportion was better but they just weren't doing anything for me.  After consulting with DH, we decided to try flying geese and I am MUCH happier, actually downright excited!

I have most of the geese made and a couple of borders pieced together.  Could be ready for quilting in a day or two.

So what to do now?  After I got all the project boxes in alpha order, I realized that several of the projects were "that" close to being finished.  I made a list of nine and pulled one to work on.  It's a Stack 'n' Whack that a reader (I think Ramona/Doodlebugs) named Starry Night because of the blue and yellow fabric that looks like Van Gogh's painting Starry Night.

Starry Night

The hexagons are formed from six identical 60-degree triangles.  The hexies didn't have enough variety to put together in One Block Wonder fashion so I went with a Stack 'n' Whack setting option that features each block individually with 60-degree background triangles as separators.  Two triangles are attached to opposite sides of the hexagon.  Some background triangles on the side blocks had to be relocated or cut in half to make a more rectangular arrangement.

The rows are assembled on the diagonal, similar to an on-point block construction.  But it took a lot more thought (on my part).  Then I was faced with filling in the edges.  The pattern in the SnW book suggested more triangles and half triangles, but that would have been a lot of seams.  So I decided to fill in with long 120-degree triangles.  First I measured the width of a half hexagon.

They finish at roughly 3.5" so I added 1/2" to make 4".  The distance from point to point on the hexies is roughly 12.5".

So I added 1/5" to make 13".  I cut a rectangle of background fabric at  4" x 13", then folded in half.  With my 60-degree triangle ruler I put the center line on the edge of the folded rectangle with the point at the folded edge. (If you are trying this, your measurements will depend on the size of your stacked triangles.)

The fabric under the ruler is waste.  I stitched one side of the angle to the end of a diagonal row before I stitched the rows to one another.  And, voila!

Side setting triangles

A couple of borders to be added and I'll have another finished top in 2020!