I wanted a quilty finish this week and decided to go with the hexie table runner because it was half done. Plus I still didn’t have the backing for the Spooky Mabel quilt. Easy decision!

Here is my hexie spooky runner story.

This is the Halloween quilt I made in 2023 which is made up of Hexies.

Check out this post which gives a little demo of how I make hexies. The only exception to that explanation is that I didn’t ladder stitch my hexie flowers together. I glued them down to the background with an Elmer’s school glue stick for the table runner. Then pressed them–heat helps them stay on the background fabric.

I made a wee little tiny smidgen mistake. I was using left over hexies from last year’s quilt and I made more from this year’s spooky fabric. The older ones were made with hexie forms that I printed out with my printer and then cut out by hand. I made this year’s forms with my Cricut.

I didn’t realize that the new forms were a wee little tiny smidgen larger than the old forms. Kind of like sewing with a quarter inch seam allowance versus a full 1/4 seam allowance.

I was able to get the hexies for the first three blocks aligned pretty well even with the wee little tiny smidgen size difference. Until the last block, I just couldn’t get them quite right. But I said it’s fine. No one will notice. I can live with it “finished is better than perfect”.

But then, I couldn’t live with it. Those gaps between about four hexies. But I didn’t want to take it apart because everything was stitched down with this crazy double blanket stitch.

First thought, I will leave this block out. The table runner will still be long enough with three blocks. Then what do I do with that poor little orphan block? Then I thought, I could make a Halloween pouch with it! That would be amazing. I could just cut around the problem hexies!

I couldn’t live with it. The next morning. I took it apart. No pouch this week! I am not team “finished is better than perfect.” Unpicked the double blanket stitching. Pulled the offending hexies off although they were glued down (and that’s a good reason to use a glue stick rather than permanent fabric glue.) Took the hand stitching out from the hexies and made them a wee little tiny smidgen larger and put it all back together. Which wasn’t as near as difficult as I first imagined.

Now I have something that I can be proud of rather than just finished and putting some Halloween decor over the ugly bits!

Then I stitched them together.

I originally planned on using a fall fabric for the backing but–it didn’t arrive, of course–so I used a piece of fabric I had used for backing on a different quilt. Using up the stash! Then I finished it up with black striped binding. Because I love a good stripy edge and it gives a cool Beetlejuice vibe.

Finished!

I cleaned all the sewing paraphernalia off of my dining room table just to display my new table runner.

Candlelight is so romantic!

And I have a table in my kitchen, too. Perhaps I need to make a second table runner! I have plenty of left-over hexies!

Nope, got too many ideas that I want to get to. I’ll just move it from table to table!