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Progress on my Mini Quilt

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A bit of progress has been made on my first mini quilt! I have trimmed and trimmed and trimmed these little HSTs.

And this is what I have so far.

I do so very much love this little project! It is a great project to have handy when you only have a few minutes to spare in the craft room. I can spend just ten minutes trimming here and there and it adds up quickly!

My little pile of trimmings.

And the best thing: the whole project will be completely free! The HSTs are leftover from a previous quilt, of course, as well as the backing fabric I will be using (from same quilt as the HSTs), and the batting will be a scrap leftover from another recent quilt. So, this little project has been super helpful as a declutter-er of all the stuff in my craft room that I just can’t seem to throw away!

Now that the cutting is complete, I can spend the next two days rearranging the blocks to make sure everything is perfectly laid out. Then see that two of the same fabric are too close together and spend another two days rearranging. And so on, and so on, and so on. . . Can anyone else relate to a little OCD?

Happy Quilting! -Alison

A Trip to the Store and more Hexies

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I needed to pick up some white fabric to make my “sashing” hexies for my Hexie Quilt.  So, it was off to my local quilt store! Yay!!
I picked up some Moda White.

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And while I was there, I just had to take a look at the scrap bin!  I found the pink and green fabrics while digging through the mountain of scraps.  I had a hankering for something purple, so I also picked up a purple fat quarter with pink flowers!  My 7 year old son, who was with me on the shopping trip, helped me pick that one.

I had so much fun looking at all the fabric!  The quilt store is one of my very favorite places!

I have made more progress on my hexie diamonds.   Here are the three most recent completed diamonds.

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In looking at my stash fabrics pulled for this quilt, you can tell my favorite color is blue!  Most of the fabrics are blue or have blue in them!  That is one reason I picked up a few new fabrics today.  Although I was trying to only use fabrics from my stash for this quilt, I wanted to make sure I have a variety of colors and it doesn’t turn into a blue quilt.

 

More Hexies

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For the last few weeks, I have almost exclusively been working on my hexagon quilt.

Here is a little stack of hexies.  Aren’t they just so cute!

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I have completed 15 “diamonds” so far.

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I have not purchased any fabric for this quilt.  I am trying to use only my stash.  I figured I need to start using some of this fabric I keep collecting because it is really starting to pile up.

I think I will use plain white fabric for my “sashing” in between the diamonds, which I’m hoping is the only fabric I have to buy for this quilt top.