Terrain Flowers

These 6 flowers were made from the same piece of fabric from Kate Spain's Terrain line. Amazing what some fussy cutting can do.

Hexagon Flowers

About a year ago, I needed a hand project to take on vacation and decided to start a Grandmother's Flower Garden of 1" hexagons. I finished about 7 flowers and have since discovered that my home-made templates weren't printed to scale. I've since decided to work on it in earnest. Here's the 25 I have done so far.

Today, I found one of my favorite prints from Kate Spain's Terrain line and was able to fussy cut 6 different parts of the print for 6 different flowers.

It left a rather Swiss-cheesy mess, but I think the results will be worth it.

Here's one of the cuts. Even rearranging this one results in strikingly different flowers.

Color Inspiration

from www.niftythriftydrygoods.com, ribbons, embellishment assortments, crazy quilt assortments, peach & gray

Recovering from surgery and spending WAAAAAYYYYY too much time on pinterest.  Saw this lovely color combination.  The jury is still out on whether I'm really a "grey" fan (ironic considering my blog background . . . really must change that), but I sure do love "coral" (that color really deserves to be called "coral", too dark for "peach").

Do you spell it gray or grey?  They've used the former, I prefer the latter.

Today, This Ruler is My Friend

I do not like trimming blocks.  I do everything in my power to construct a block that will not need to be trimmed.

But sometimes . . . sometimes it is necessary.  And, today, I'm glad that I have a 12-1/2"  square ruler.  It sure makes the process speedy.

I'm especially glad I have this ruler today since this is what it's doing outside . . .

My poor apple tree.  We skipped fall and went straight to winter around here.  Hopefully it melts fast . . . we still have some fall to celebrate.

tee, hee, hee

(Do you see the circles in that quilt? I'm thinking of quilting giant spiderwebs.)

Woot, woot!!!

Look what I just won . . .



Gorgeous, right?!!!!  This is Heirloom by Joel Dewberry.  Oh, the wheels are turning already.

This bundle is coming from Jennifer of Dragonfly Fabric in Canada.  Check out her online shop.  It is beautiful.

Thank you so much Jennifer!

Four "Y" Seams

Four wonky "Y" seams . . . that's what it would take at every intersection to put sashing on this quilt.

As much as I like the "Y" (go Cougars!!!), I do not like "Y" seams.

No sashing it is.

WIP Wednesday: To Sash or Not To Sash?

That is the question.

Here's one of several Works-In-Progress that I would love to finish.  Do you think I should add a small white sashing between each hexagon or do you think I could just stitch them together as-is?

Fabric: Terrain by Kate Spain for Moda Fabrics

And this is what you do with all of the little scraps left over . . .

Journal cover tutorial found here.

And this is what happens when you forget that you left a quilt on the "design floor" when destructo-baby wakes up.

I'm linking up.