Shabby Chic Sheet Quilt

If you are anything like me you have a pile of flat sheets in your linen closet that never get used. When I cleaned the closet out a few weeks ago I went ahead and pulled them all out and put them in the sewing room.

I'd been wanting to make myself a new quilt for awhile. My very much beloved current quilt was a gift from grandmother, and it is completely threadbare. Since she has been gone since 1998, I want to preserve what little is left of it.

I kept looking at those sheets and tossing around ideas of what to do with them. Squares? Stripes?

Late one night it hit me, giant hexagons.
I've used only Shabby Chic (from Target) sheets, 6 patterns and one plain white one.
And after countless hours* cutting and sewing, I am pretty pleased with the result.
It's backed with a sheet in the pink on pink print, and I just did a front to back binding instead of the more time consuming binding method I usually use. (In all honesty I was SO bloody sick of this project by the time it came to binding I am surprised I finished it.)
It looks a bit washed out, it was gray yesterday.
A shot of it on our bed. (It was rainy that day, just can't win sometimes!)

Now I can get back to life and other projects!

*I am pretty sure I have spent three solid weeks making this thing.