Found this fabric on Ebay, and thought it would be good to use for one of the grandkids:
But, it looks like the grandkids may never see it! I used it to make myself a "bow tuck" bag, which I love -- it is just the right size for me:
Still had fabric left, and had been wanting to try a "One Block Wonder" quilt. This was a challenge; not so much the creation of the blocks, but the fact that they are hexagonal, and the design they morphed into wasn't symmetrical. I filled in with some solid colors to create a landscape, and then spent a lot of time figuring out how to put a border on it. Again, not symmetrical, which was a real drain on my left-brained self! Quilting was fun -- I used my walking foot to do six-leafed curves on each hexagon, did some leafy FMQ in the purple and green areas, tried one of Leah Day's designs in the sky, and stippled/meandered in the border. That was my first attempt at stippling, and I was pleased with the result. I found a suggestion somewhere to imagine a grid on your fabric, and try to enter each square only once. Well, this border fabric had a grid built-in, with the giraffe-skin pattern, so I tried to enter each darker spot once, and no more than twice. Worked great!
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