It's Been a While!

Even though I haven't posted, I have been sewing.  This 4 patch posie was created from one of the fabrics from the previous two quilts.  I wasn't crazy about the fabric and I had enough to do this one.  I have been gathering fabrics to border each one of the blocks in a variety of colors.  I may need to take this one to the beach to finish as I have a larger selection of hand dyes down there.  I am relatively pleased but still trying to decide whether i will do one in a another colorway that I had.  I finally discovered the quilt in which I had used many of those brown Kaffe fabrics -- it was an art quilt I did many years ago and which is hanging on one of my walls!

I then delved into some of the black and whites I had up here -- again not as great a collection as down south.  I had some of the half rectangles cut  out and a HUGE pile of four patches I made from some random scraps so went with this very old pattern.  The half rectangles are 9 3/8 in x 4 5/8 in.  They all have to be facing up when you cut them.  The four patches are made from 2 12 in squares.

I got bored so didn't cut any more rectangles but still have a ton of four patches!

After finishing the above tops, I went through boxes in my sewing room as well as the basement to see what patterned fabric I could find to cut up into 5 inch squares and 10 inch squares.  I started with the leftover Kaffe fabric.  Any fabric that read as a solid substitute, I cut into 2 1/2 in strips to be used as borders or binding.  I always do these in groups of six.  In doing this, I found this fabric which I didn't like well enough to cut into large pieces.  However, I did like the colors and I had enough for six repeats so I decided to do a stack and whack.  It was time to do a little sewing again!

So I ended up with the makings of 55 hexagons and started putting them up on the wall.  I think there are 35 here and this isn't the final configuration as I want to move some around.  The hexies are still in two 3 triangle pieces.  I decided to do this one as a "one-block wonder" rather than inserting any triangles as I do like the colors and there is enough variation so you can group colorings in hopefully a pleasing manner!  I have enough of the fabric leftover for an outer border for sure.  There will be a white inner border as well as probably a thin green one.  I'm not sure whether I will give this one away or not as I do like the colors!

Not pictured but I have huge piles of 10 in squares and 5 inch squares and I have been collecting patterns on Pinterest to make use of these!