Halloween Tabletopper

My mom needed some Halloween decorations for an October event, so I decided to take advantage of the opportunity to try out my new Accuquilt Go Hexagons Die (#55011) while making a Halloween table topper for her. Okay, I was also excited to have an excuse to buy Halloween fabric! :)

This die cuts 2 inch, 3 inch, and 5 inch hexagons. I used only the largest for my project.

Cutting and sewing the hexagons turned out to be a piece of cake! However, the quilting and binding did not go as smoothly. I had difficulty with the tension on my machine and with seeing well enough to stitch exactly where I wanted. I spent a lot of time UNdoing. Also, all of the tutorials that I found for binding were for the method that requires hand-sewing the back. Not only did I have trouble doing this as neatly as I would have liked, but I sew very slowly by hand, so it ended up taking me at least twelve hours just to do that one step. After that, I did not have enough time to embellish the black border, as I had planned. I would have made the black border narrower, if I had known that I wasn't going to embellish it.

Not the best lighting, sorry. I used silver thread to topstich-in-the-ditch and the plaid fabric has silver stripes in it too, neither of which really show up in this picture.

It was definitely a learning experience. :) Luckily, I have since discovered all of the great presser feet that are available for my machine to make quilting, binding, and applique easier! Hopefully I won't have as much difficulty finishing my full-sized quilt!