One-Block Wonder

One-Block Wonders are what my sewing career will hopefully soon aspire to. I think the designs and finished pieces are absolutely beautiful. I am learning to enjoy various crafts that are quite tedious to be fine art-forms. Without further adieu, let me introduce One-Block Wonders to you. The same piece of pattern is cut (exactly) six times to create six identicle sides (a hexagon). You do this over and over, as you can see from the example to the right. The example below demonstrates a closer perspective of this technique using a different pattern so you can get a better feel for what is going on.

Sewing Inspirations

I have recently started relearning how to crochet and sew. To be honest, sewing is a lot harder than I remembered it being. Also, I have a hard time cutting fabric straight so that probably does not help my case at all. Anyway, once I can sew a straight line again, I have found something I am extremely interested and excited about working on. They are called One-Block Wonders. Basically, you take a fabric which has some huge repetitive print on it and you make a hexagon with 6 identical pieces of fabric. This link shows a completed piece which is one of my current favorites so far, it also demonstrates another OBW technique, the squares. (The image to the right is not a one-block wonder example.)