Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday

One Flower Wednesday

 

 

My tub full of fall hexie flowers

 

I've been working a bit on my fall flower garden.  The light hexies aren't as light as they look in the picture.

 

 

I'm going to use perle cotton in fall colors to quilt the tea-stained tone on tone hexies.

 

Another Fall Project

We have had a taste of nice spring weather, but now we're back to cool and rainy. So I've been working on paper pieced hexagons done in fall colors, while watching it turn green outside.  These are all from scraps--don't know how I ended up with so many of these colors, but fall is my favorite time of year, so I guess that's what I'm drawn to. I love earthy tones.

I have 53 flowers completed and 62 more flowers to sew together.

I'm hoping to have enough to make 2 small quilts.  I haven't quite decided how I want to put them together.  I thought about using a tea-stained tone on tone to scatter between the flowers. Then I would quilt them using perle cotton in fall colors.

Once all my flowers are done it will be fun to start laying them out to see what I can come up with.

This is my little plastic snap-tote that I found to keep my hexagons in.  I really like it because I can keep a supply of blocks, paper pieces, my little pincushion for a couple pins and needles, scissors and thread so I can work on my flowers wherever I go.

Fall Leaves in the Spring

I know it is spring, but I’ve been working on a quilt called Feels Like Fall.

A couple of years ago in the fall, I was walking past a quilt shop and I was determined not to go in, but in the window there was a quilt so full of fall colors that I just had to go in and investigate. The shop owner had made up kits for this quilt and I don’t usually buy kits, but this one just called to me. So, now two and a half years later I am putting it together. I had my leaf block done and then the next block section.

Just as I was ready to cut the block I looked at the instructions and realized I had sewn them together wrong—thank goodness I caught my mistake!

So I have spent some time rip, rip, ripping, twelve down and twelve to go.