Recipe for Friendship Part 2

So you can see the true colour and detail of the fabric used, I snapped a close up.  My original idea was to have a mix of hexagons as the center of the quilt and use the yellow and red polka-dot fabric as the border, but that was over three years ago and now I see things differently.

The new plan has the center of my Recipe for Friendship quilt looking like a very large hexagon flower, 34 inches to be exact.  All the yellow polka-dot fabric is gone now, but I still have quite a bit of the red polka-dot and a solid red that can be added to the mix if need be.

Next up, a round of colourful hexagons!

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.  ~Kahlil Gibran

Until next time.....happy quilting!

Karen

Recipe for Friendship

What I needed was a recipe, a Recipe for Friendship, something to make from my one and only jelly roll by Mary Engelbreit.  A few ideas came to mind, but what I kept seeing was hexagons, not a flower garden, just lots of colourful hexagons mixed together.  A trip to the market provided the extra ingredients needed for the border, red and yellow polka-dots!

So, over the summer, a little at a time, I mixed up some delicious batches of hexagons and now I have 560 baked and ready to go.  With 37 different fabrics, this should make a fun mix for the center of my quilt. 

I still need to prepare hexagons for the border, but in the meantime, I think it would be okay to start stitching together a Recipe for Friendship. 

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.

~Douglas Pagels

Until next time.....happy quilting!

Karen