Bee in my Bonnet Hexie Half Ruler...and my Honeycomb quilt!!!

This is my "Honeycomb" quilt that I made last October for fall market.

You can tell that I took these pictures back then because...

you see my backyard had just been touched by an

 overnight deep frost...

 and Mr. Frost put all of my beautiful flowers to sleep for the winter:)

Now that it's February...

my backyard is piled high with about 50 feet of snow!

Well...

maybe not quite 50 but almost...hehe:)

I made the quilt using my new 

Hexie Half Rulers

YaY!!!!

I waited to show you Honeycomb until the 

 rulers were available...

and now that they are finally here...

I can show you!

This is my 15 year old cutie pie Sterling....

son #2....the middle child.

And my 13 year old daughter Kassidy Grace...

the baby of the family and my stunt double as many of you know:)

I made them use up their busy after school time 

to hold up my quilt so I could show you....

I'm pretty sure bribery was involved...(smile)

I'm also pretty sure that this sounds 

familiar to all of you blogger and quilter moms out there...

our kids get to be props and

 quilt holders whether they want to be or not:)

This quilt is completely made using 10" and 5" squares and is

 easy peasy to make in three simple steps thanks to the rulers!!!

1. Rotary cut two large hexie halves from one 10" square for one block

 and sew them together in rows.

2. Then use the smaller size ruler to trace a full hexie shape onto a 5" square and sew it to pellon...right sides together.

 Make a slit in the pellon...turn right side out and press.

(just like I showed you with the circle rulers)

3. Machine applique the smaller hexagon shapes onto the center of each large hexagon.

And it's done!!!

My Honeycomb quilt pattern is also available as a free download to use with my Hexie Half Rulers...

CLICK HERE

to access it!

I did add 2 borders using my light gray solid...

I wanted to make it look like a big slab of honeycomb...

fresh from the beehive:) 

(As a girl, I used to love watching my dad extract the honey from the comb 

and my sisters and I would chew up the leftover bits like gum)

The borders can either be on the side or 

the top and bottom depending on 

how you display it.

I think this quilt will look awesome

 hanging on the large wall behind my sofa.

It was a windy October day for the pics:)

I took several and I thought I would show you just a few...

Because you can see their personalities and

 relationship of brother and sister...

And that's what mom's do...right?

Show gratuitous photos of their children:)

Two happy teenagers:)

Thanks to the wind...

you can see that I used my gray daisy print from

 Polka Dot Stitches 

on the back of the quilt.

On the front I used a variety of prints from 

Sew Cherry

Millies Closet

Polka Dot Stitches

and Riley Blake polka dots...chevrons and solids:)

A very colorful scrappy pre-cut happy honeycomb indeed!

I hope you are excited about the Hexie Half Rulers...

I know I am.

There are so many ways to use them 

and you can bet that

 I'll be showing them all to you:)

Tomorrow I'll post about the fun quilt 

that I made using my new 

Thimble Rulers.

Have a quilty kind of day my friends:)

xx

Lori