… of a hexie flower garden.
I’ve got a good chunk of the middle done (the part connected by green triplets). Yesterday I decided to lay it all out on the living room floor and make sure the remaining flowers are convincingly random in placement. So far I’ve been randomizing as I go along, but the more I sew together the more concerned I get that I’ll end up with nothing but reds for the last section.
My layout called for 105 flowers, and I’d made 107 (because there’s always at least one who doesn’t play well with others when layout time comes). So I should be okay. Except that when I switched all my files over to a new computer last winter my layout diagram wandered off into oblivion. I don’t remember how many flowers per row I had in mind, but clearly it wasn’t alternating rows of 8 & 9 as I’ve got here, because now I’m a few flowers short.
Just got through cutting some more “petal” fabrics to make up the necessary new ones, and then I’ll have to face rimming them all with blue. At this point in the game it’s the prospect of sewing on any more blue hexies ever in my lifetime that’s most enervating. The flowers will be fun, though, as I pulled from some fabrics new to the stash since this project began. And it won’t take long to do a half-dozen more; I can hardly want for TV time to see how they come together.
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You’ve made good progress. Your new layout may be even better than the original you had planned.
I really like the 3 little green hexies in there between flowers. I’m sure that blue row is boring and of course it is the largest row of each flower section.
Fantastic progress. Very inspiring.
OMG!!! I just love, love, love it!! I am on the edge of my seat to see this quilt complete. Just beautiful!
This is a beauty! I’ve looked at lots of Grandmother’s Flower Garden quilts. This is one of my favorites! Love the green trillium! Good job!
GASP. I bow at your feet. Those are stunning. (mine is shamelessly hiding in a bag in the corner of my studio) FABULOUS!!!!