just one more thing

Winter Closure this year has been a wonderful time for sewing, likely fueled by too much YouTube and many quilt and sewing videos. As I'm wrapping up the final weekend before heading back to work I've gotten one more thing accomplished in the craft room. This Fractured Half Hexagon table runner was inspired by a video tutorial from Missouri Star Quilt Co (it starts at about 13:00 in the video). 

I woke up Saturday morning thinking about hexagon math after having watched that tutorial recently. Literally, the first thing that popped in my head when I woke up was trigonometry. That's someone's definition of crazy for sure. I was trying to figure out what size I needed to make the sides of a hexagon to make a template that would play nice with 10" squares rather than waiting to buy and have a template shipped. Turns out, I can do math, and making one out of cardboard worked reasonably well. I'm not saying I didn't occasionally shave off a sliver here and there while cutting, but cardboard still makes for a solid template material. 

The fabric may look familiar; many are leftovers from the fence rail quilt top I just made. And the comments in the tutorial are spot on - it may seem complicated at first but once you start actually doing it everything makes sense and comes together pretty quick. I didn't even mind the one-inch strips of white. It still needs to be trimmed, bordered and finished, but so far it's looking pretty great.