Fairy Frost, Day 3

More blocks, more quilts, more sparkle using Fairy Frost. I'm back with some hexagons and English Paper Piecing. I've been working on these blocks for a few years. Not sure where I'm headed, but I am just along to enjoy the ride. And it's such a lovely ride to be working with lovely fabrics.

This is Gingham Play by Michael Miller. I shared some of this in 2019 and I was using Cotton Couture with it. But I couldn't find quite the color match from the bundle I received, so I had an "aha" moment and grabbed some of my Fairy Frost. Aren't these SO beautiful together?!!

Fairy Frost and Gingham Play

It looks like candy, doesn't it? I began to cut it up to make more of my Grandmother's Flower Garden blocks. Oh, you haven't seen those? Allow me! First, this is what I used for my blocks which I started in 2019.

Gingham Play and Cotton Couture

I made a few large blocks using 2" hexagons. Here is my purple/lavender set.

Various 2" hexagons

This is a variation on a Grandmother's Flower Garden. I added the outside solid hexagons for an elongated block. You'll see . . .

Grandmother's Flower Garden variation

Then I brought in my Fairy Frost for background rectangles. I cut a 12-1/2" x 17-1/2" rectangle of light lavender and then appliquéd the above block to it. Papers came out first!

Machine Appliquéd block to background

Trimmed away Fairy Frost from behind the block.

I made 4 of these. I'll be showing them all together soon. But for now, pull out your gingham fabrics and look for some solids/blenders/Fairy Frost and get going!

If you type "English Paper Piecing" and "hexagons" into the search bar at the top of this page, I have a lot of blog posts that show steps for doing this if you're unfamiliar. See you next time for Day 4 of Fairy Frost!