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Wednesday, July 10, 2013

What have I been doing?

In between working on Love Entwined and a few of my other BOM's, I have been working on a lot of small blocks to create the latest Annabelle adventure.  I wanted to challenge myself and limit the color choices to blacks, tans, creams and rust.  However, the rust color is only wool or flannel (the flowered, rust-colored portions).  Difficult? It wasn't as hard to do as I thought it might be.  It was actually quite liberating, in that I did not worry about bringing so many different colors and hues into play.

The second part of my personal challenge was to use hexagons, but a bit differently than, say Grandmother's Flower Garden where the hexies are all joined together.  There are a lot of different size hexagon flowers, a few hexagon cactii and hexie bees! ;)  And...lots of pottery waiting for new flowers to be planted. :)



Here's a bit of a closer look at what is the main portion of the quilt.  I have to make the outer borders for it to finish it off.


5 comments:

Michelle said...

Love it and love the color combinations. Being a lover of wool, the rust wool works really well.

Congrats.

Anne Marieke said...

Gorgeous work. You are so clever coming up with new ideas for Annabelle.

Karen said...

The hexagons make wonderful applique flowers.

jjthor said...

Love your annabelle quilt! Do you sell the Annabelle patterns? they are so cute.

Glenda said...

Oh it is so nice to see you and Annabelle here again, I have missed seeing you both monthly, my wee Annabelle sits on my work table in the sewing room and watches over every thing I do LOL Glenda