A week with a little bit of everything! I sorted out all my basted hexies and have 36 more flowers to stitch.
Another busy week and lots of family time, which is always awesome! I played around with placement for my Grandmother’s Flower Garden quilt. So many choices! One part of me just wants to plan as I go and the oh so very analytical side of me wants to plan it out! Decisons, decisions, decisions 🙂
Had my Mother’s Day Gift setup. Here is my new HandiQuilter Avante (gosh I have a wonderful husband!). I am calling her Lady A; My Grandmother’s name was Alma and she sure was a wonderful grandmother 🙂 I figure “Lady A” could stand for Alma, Allison, or Avante 🙂
And my daughter, son-in-law, and grandchildren spent the weekend with us camping in Maine. Although it was hectic I still managed to stitch 4 new hexagon flowers for the GFG quilt.
I am linking up with Jessica at Life Under Quilts for the Monday Morning Star Count!
The weather finally has turned beautiful and everything is starting to bloom. It certainly had me full of energy and anxious to make more progress on my Grandmother’s Flower Garden quilt.
I was able to add the border hexies to 9 sections and basted 30 ivory border hexies. I have enough color variation to really start playing with additional layout options. Here are the 9 sections for this week.
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This week I will focus on stitching a section together and possibly connecting to the first section I completed (below):
So grateful for the enthusiasm and support of the wonderful people who are linking up with Jessica at Life Under Quilts. You are a talented bunch 🙂 and every week I learn something new! Thank you Jessica for bringing all of us together and sharing your passion with us!
Why do I always overestimate what I can accomplish? Well, I guess it is better to aim high and fall a little short, than not to aim at all!
It has been very busy the last two weeks with family and work. I wasn’t able to post last week so this week’s post covers two weeks of progress. I was able to complete 6 more sections.
It was a busy week and I was sidetracked working on a quilt for our camper, but I still managed a little progress 🙂 I completed 4 new sections.
I am very please with my progress this week and very motivated to keep moving! Funny how actually stitching the sections makes you want to add ‘just one more section’ before you quit for the night.
I was able to add 4 more flower sections to the main quilt. I added the border hexies to 2 more flowers and actually basted 35 border hexies!
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Each flower section that I added made me fall more in love and get more anxious to see it come together. I know it will still take me quite some time, but worth every minute I can steal to work on it!
Here is this week’s progress tally:
| Total | Progress | Left To Complete | |
| Flowers to Stitch | 99 | 51 | 48 |
| Border Hexagons | ? | 147 | ? |
| Borders to Add | 99 | 35 | 64 |
| Stitch to Quilt | 99 | 8 | 91 |
I am linking up with Jessica at Life Under Quilts! Thanks Jessica!
I didn’t make as much progress as I would have liked, but it was a very busy week.
What a busy week! I took some time with my granddaughter, Gracie, to teach her basting hexagons. Gracie was born at 31 weeks, has a form of autism, and struggles with her small motor skills. She actually used the needle 🙂 without my help, and stayed focused long enough to complete 7 – 1″ hexies.
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