Fussy Cutting for My Hexie Blocks

Do you remember the blocks I did to celebrate the first day of Winter? Not that I like winter, but for me that means that the days get 1 more minute of sunshine from then on!

Here are the two blocks I made using Paula Nadelstern's Fabracadabra Collection for Benartex:

Winter Solstice Block (I've since removed those borders)

 And, Here Comes the Sun! (click the link and you can see the steps to make this block)

Here Comes the Sun!

Paula's panels with the large kaleidoscopes also have smaller motifs at the selvedge ends. Let me show you what I did with those!

Fabracadabra panel showing large and small motifs

Some Grandmother's Flower Garden blocks made with 1-3/4" hexie papers

Six GFG blocks with a fussy cut motif in the center

Then I got to thinking about stars (since I'm a Block Star, ha ha). And I wanted to rotary cut some 6 pointed stars and here is what I got:

Circle of Stars

That center motif is one of the larger ones in the panel (same size I used in the Winter Solstice blocks above). I sewed NO y-seams. Made each individual star:

Single rotary cut star (no y-seams)

Then sewed the 6 stars into a circle and then added the interfaced center hexagon to the center using monofilament thread and a machine zigzag stitch:

Interfaced hexagon prepared for center of 6 stars

And here are two more blocks I made using the smaller motifs. Yes, I've been so captivated by these!

Twisted Hexagon (rotary cut and stitched)

 This one is called "Sarah" in the book "The New Hexagon."

Sarah Block

Paula has a new collection out now called Chromazone (also by Benartex). I'm getting some and will be sharing that in the next month.