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And here's what it would have looked like on white:
It's not finished - it's just a top - because as I continue to make masks, I will grow it. The mystery, of course, is how all this will turn out - not just this quilt, but our lives.
UPDATE, 11/19/20 - I've finished this quilt and written up the pattern. The digital pattern is for sale on Etsy, here. All money raised from this $1.99 pattern will go to my Los Angeles Regional Foodbank fundraiser, here.
Here's one fabrics I used in lots of masks - a purple batik featuring lots of birds:
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...And the hexagon I made from a scrap:
Button eyes are optional. Next, masks I made for border collie parents:
And its hexagon: The hexagon
A stylish saw-blade fabric mask:
The condensed version, with button eyes, appears sweet but startled:
After making a pile of masked hexagons (most without button eyes) I decided to to socially distance them. I was heavily influenced by lines marked on store floors, and social media photos of kooky/brilliant people wearing hula hoops, pool noodle hats, inner tubes, and even wildly-oversized Burger King crowns, to keep their distance. So I gave some of my hexagon rows protuberances. ![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnk_UKAqcAXuI6wqLuGNJaoT7Cvl72wUa_bnq6lyJDw7SKGWNZm61ef8KypYD7aagezio7cm2D2UNqvZ5HmBoG13dImRuCYEospdl_ZvxM3LZieqxQDaQ6cszapUXS6Ca2VlhRKxOul8nf/s400/Button_Row_w_2020-05-22+18.jpg)
Of course, I have hexagons and English Paper Piecing on my mind because my new book was just published, Hexagon Star Quilts: 113 English Paper Pieced Star Patterns to Piece and Applique, available from Amazon (here) and wherever fine quilting books are sold!