I was able to recycle some bits left over from other classes in this exercise for the C&G course. I tend to hoard all my samples as you never know when they may have their use. I was able to recycle a four-patch square, a strip-pieced square, a hexagon and a diamond-pieced hexagon for this activity. The only thing I had to cut especially was the triangle.
Here are all the samples. As the tape measure shows they are quite small.
The four-patch square gave a nice result. The centre square on the strip-pieced square is a bit messy because the original strips were not all the same width. They were only rough cut.
The folded hexagon made from one piece of fabric is an interesting effect. Unfortunately the diamond-pieced hexagon didn’t really work.
The problem was that there was nowhere for the seams to go at the back. Maybe if the starting piece had been larger I would have been able to get a bit neater hexagon on the front, but the problem of the seams would still be there.
Funnily enough that wasn’t a problem with the 4-patch square.
And to finish up here’s the folded triangle:
For good measure here’s the reverse too – quite an interesting pattern of kite shapes on the back.
