Row 6 is done! Quick review of small tool.

I finished row 6 on my quilt top.  I have one more row to go.  Then I will applique this top to a grey border fabric.  I bought the border fabric almost 2 years ago so it's been very patiently waiting to be used.  Here is a picture of the 6 rows.  I'll be using the grey fabric for the backing fabric as well.

My quick review is of the cute flower threaders I bought last year.  I have been using the same threader for the last two rows of the quilt and it has held up very well.  The wire is sturdy but its not too big to fit in a small needle eye.  I bought the threaders from Amazon.  The link is here:   Flower threaders for sewing needles

All The Hexagons Are Ready

   Here they are.

    All the hexagons I will need to finish my Grandmother's Flower Garden quilt top.  I have two flowers for the 5th row put together already.  I need three more flowers then I will add the green path to each and add them one by one to the quilt top.

    It takes me approximately two hours and ten minutes to make each flower including the green path.  Then it probably takes another hour and a half to sew each flower onto the quilt top.  No wonder its taking me so long to finish this quilt.

I Decided On My Next Quilt Project

   I finally decided on my next long term quilt project.  It will be a slow hand sewing project making little hexagons with English paper piecing.  I'm going to make another Grandmother's Flower Garden ("GFG"), but this time I want to make the quilt more traditional.  I will be using three fabrics for my flowers.  The center will be yellow, of course, and the two rows of petals will be orange and pink.  Here are the fabrics I purchased from Fabric.com this week for this project.

     Here is the green I found for path which I think is perfect.  It's a Kona cotton in the colorway Pond.  I can't wait to get started.

    Here's a link to the scrappy GFG I made last year.  It was totally different from a traditional GFG.  I don't know what I was thinking of when I bought the dark green and greyish fabric for this.  I should have made the flowers with two rows of petals and then used a lighter green for the path, but I made only one row of petals then I used that concrete color before the dark green path.  It it unusual to say the least.

Playing With Hexagons, Again.

    I felt the need to hand sew some hexagons the other day.  I don't know why.  When I finished my Scrappy Grandmother's Flower Garden Quilt, I never wanted to see another hexagon.  I don't know what I'm going to do with this block, it may be the start of another quilt top.  We'll see.

   Merlin says, "Hello".  He had just finished having a nice drink at the kitchen faucet and he jumped up on the ironing board.  He gave me a few of his sexy cat growls to let me know he was happy and I couldn't resist taking this picture for the blog.  

Hexagons

     I made 67 beige colored hexagons in the last two days to added to my scrappy flowers for the next round of my scrappy Grandmother's Flower Garden quilt top.  Here's a picture of these lovelies after I pressed them.

Thirty-Two Scrappy Hexagon Flowers

    I finished the last cotton nightgown on Sunday, it is green with white polka dots.  I want to make one more nightgown for myself with pretty Christmas fabric but I can't find any pretty Christmas fabric.  I'm going to wait until the Christmas in July sales and I'm hoping I'll find Christmas fabric to make one more nightgown.

   Since I finished making my nightgowns, I have been sewing these scrappy hexagon flowers together for the quilt top.  I figure it will take a week to finish each flower block with the next two rounds of hexagons they need.