Hooray! On Thursday night I appliquéd the last block for my hexy quilt.
This pile consists of one hundred and eleven one inch hexy flowers and eight two inch hexy flowers. I started this journey back in May last year. At that stage I had no plan in mind for them. It was just some hand stitching to take to my stitching mornings and may tick the Rainbow Scrap Challenge box. I thought it would a very long term project. I kind of had in the back of my head that I would appliqué them onto a background before joining them……somehow.
Then, in about August, the quilt “Bigs and Smalls” by Anorina Morris, was published in Homespun Magazine. The few larger hexy flowers appealed to me. Having seen this quilt, I now had a plan to follow. I took my blocks to Baradine in September, only to discover that Brenda, one of the other participants, was also making the quilt, but much faster than me. Now I had the goal to have at least the top made to take for show and tell in April for Scrub Stitchin’.
It has been such a good project to take to my stitching days, take away when we travel, and to meet my 15 minutes goal each day, but to the detriment of other projects. I now have to think about what hand work to take to my stitching days.
Having met my self imposed goal to have all the blocks completed in January, I have revised my goal. Now I want to have the blocks pieced into a quilt top by the end of the month. I’m itching to get started, but as it is rather large and I don’t have a design wall, I will leave it until when I can play with them on the “Design Floor” and not annoy anyone (Mick) too much.
Wish me luck.
8 comments:
That's a gorgeous design with the 2 different sizes ... I look forward to seeing yours come together.
Ahhhmazing work. You got your blocks together way faster than I did. I look forward to seeing your quilt once it's all put together. How fun!!
Great effort
That came together fast. I don't have design wall either, but use my design bed instead.
I use 2 lengths of flannelette sewn together then a rod through pocket at the top. Have 2 over the door hooks and can hang on large wardrobe or similar. You can roll up and store when not in use. Much better to see a project vertically also can sit back and think about placement rather than spread over the floor, hope this helps. keep up the good work
Yay.... I do like them with the patched background - happy piecing...
Hugz
Well done Janice, great to have met your challenge and be able to adapt it! The design is great, looking forward to seeing it at Baradine.
Very nice of Anorina to come up with that project at the right time
Of course Brenda was fast -- she is a machine!
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