I made some small, sporadic progess on Grannys Garden (aka Bill's Quilt) in the past few months but, honestly, I spent more time planning my next moves than actual work on it. Starting the day after Christmas, however, I've worked on it a little every day even if only to cut out more papers.
Yesterday I finished the rest of the blueish flowers. Yay! They were a challenge because I don't generally love blue and have no blue purchased fabrics in my collection. Bill and I found some plaid shirts at the thrift store, but he only made a single petal from the blue and white plaid. The rest of that cut up shirt got thrown away by others during our moves, so I paid another visit to the thrift store just before Christmas and found 2 blue-grey shirts to cut up and complete these. A goal is to use up ALL the hexies Bill made for this quilt. He'd basted up 5 yellow plaid ones and had cut out the 6th, so I basted that one and will be stitching it together next.
The single light brown floral hexie was another challenge to figure out a flower home for, but I put it with 2 other fabrics I already had on hand and like it. Two more of Bill's red hexies look at home with the split hexies I made for this split flower I think. Since it's Friday, I'm going to try to link up with a weekly "linky party" called Finished Or Not Friday, hosted by Alycia Quilts.
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