We interrupt your regular viewing of pink and pretty feminine things, for a rude shock! I am in the process of making each of my oldest boys a new quilt. So there will not be a pink floral in sight! They will each be very different, so my dream of matching sets on their beds goes out the window...o well, it did happen for a few years.Now my oldest son is now 19, and works as an android developer for an app company. He loves all things sciencey, and sees a lot of things in black and white...so it seemed very appropriate when we picked fabrics together, that he chose this colour scheme, and these fabrics.Here's the fabric pull for this pattern, drawn up by my second son, who is a qualified graphic designer, and just 'whipped this up' - a term he hates, but he did, it took him all of half an hour! There are a few 'architextures' prints by Robert Kaufman, one print from 'science fair', a Riley Blake novelty equations print, and a newsprint that is not a quilting fabric, but a cotton duck. I've added a few solids to stretch them all a bit further.
From my half hearted attempts at sketching this out, he designed full sized templates, and a scale pattern for me to colour in. I have to acknowledge that this will be my first full sized pieced quilt, and I had my doubts that you could just print out templates, add a 1/4" seam allowance, and have everything work... so I did a few test blocks out of the solids, and it went together really easily!!
These hexagons are over 4" a side, so they are HUGE, and the ones around the border will be even larger. Here's a shot of progress so far, when I was brave enough to start cutting...
So I'm pretty pleased with the progress so far, and would love some input as to a better name, and how to go about quilting these giant hexagons. It needs to be in keeping with the whole geeky, geometric theme, and I'm still stumped at the moment.In case anyone was going into melt down over the lack of pink prettiness on this post, here's something else I worked on last week, which is much more my style :).
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