More Progress on Projects

As you can see by scrolling through this post, I've been busy.   I've scrapped my plan for the Jemima's Creative Quilting Mystery 2025 and switched to the colors below.   I love fall colors especially the rust color, and I like this color pallet a lot better.   I also fussy cut 7 hexagons from another fabric, but those will go into another project.  I know I could finish more things if I just picked something and stuck with it.  Click the link above if you want to join in.  

 

The photo below shows a bit of the process I go through when putting a hexagon project together.   My favorite size is 3/4" hexagons, so if I'm not fussy cutting I cut 2 1/2" squares.   Then to make the hexagons I just lay a plastic template on top of a stack of squares and trim the corners.   This is a lot faster than using a rotary cutter and cutting out each hexagon individually.   You can see that I end up with a lot of extra squares.   These all go into a bag for future projects. 

This is bird number 6 for my Cousin's Walk quilt.   There are 28 applique' bird blocks.   

This is my first border for the Just Judie quilt.   

The quilt is the one shown on the cover of this book.   I  have the hexagon center all pieced, and I basted all of the diamonds for the border.   But I decided I really liked the look of leaves in the border better, so I'm taking the diamond papers out and turning them into leaves.   I'm doing needle turn applique' so this will take awhile to finish.....especially since I keep switching projects.   

The corners are supposed to a diamond flower, but I'm changing that to a hexagon flower.   

  I live in Indianapolis, and the weather has been crazy.   We were at my son's Sunday for family birthday celebrations, and right before dark we noticed there was sleet on his deck.   Today it's 70, and we have the windows open.   Tomorrow there's a wind advisory, and they are predicting snow flurries for Thursday morning.   It's really true.   If you don't like the weather, stick around awhile and it will change.  

I'm linking to Judy's Design Wall Monday post.    

Until next time.....

Thanks for stopping by for a visit.

I hope you are finding some time to stitch today.