I fell in love with this panel from QT Fabrics as soon as I saw it! The colors are so rich!

The panel by Gina Jane for QT Fabrics, measures 36″ x 42″ including the frames. I cut my strips 3.25″ to yield 5″ finished hexies. The 6 panels yielded 165 hexies.

This block was created by fellow Certified Instructor, Sonny Dewitt. He is so creative. He used Deb Tuckers Geese on the Edge Technique Sheet and Wing Clipper Tool to make the Geese on the Edge units & then trim the square units using the Star 60 Tool to create a hexagon shaped block. I thought it looked like a spider web, so I embroidered a cool looking spider in the center. It added so much to my OBW.

After designing with my hexies. I sitched them into 4 sections around the panel.

I centered and laid the the top section on the panel to show me how much to trim off each side to make the panel the same size as the top and bottom sections.

I remove a few stitches from valley’s of the top section and pressed under the 1/4″.

I pin the top section to the panel and top stitched using MonoPoly thread.

Match up the dog ears of the left section with the dog ears of the top and stitch using a partial seam stopping about 8″ from the bottom.

By matching the dog ears it allows me to know where the bottom section will attach to the panel. Remove a few stitches from the valleys and press under attaching it to the panel as with the top section.

Once it is stitched in place, finish the partial seam.

The right side is easy to add now.

I added 3″ borders and few tweaks. Abra-Cat-Dabra measures 71″ x 85″. Abra-Cat-Dabra is not quilted yet.

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