Hexagon Hip Hop

 We are having beautiful weather here in Atlanta, so I have been able to sew outside on my patio. I am working on Hexagon Hip Hop from the Lintott's book.

Audra's Iris Garden by Brannock & Patek (Moda) has worked out quite well. I love the colors! 

Just so you know, squaring up is my least favorite activity, but being outside makes it endurable. 

 Since he is recovering from hernia surgery, my husband has been hanging around watching me sew. Monday night he told me this is his favorite of the quilts he's seen me make. I queried why, and his reply was that it was poufier than my other ones. He said "real quilts are poufy." I thought for a moment about what the heck he meant, since I was doing what I always do.

What he was looking at was the sewn strips that had not yet been pressed. Hah! I bet he was disappointed to find I managed to ruin this one by flattening it out too.

Smashed it flat as a pancake!

Dear me; all the pouf is gone!

That cannot be a quilt now.

Can it?

Because the pouf is gone.

So I ran back to the Goodwill store to buy that poufy quilt I'd seen the day before.

Here you go honey.

 The pouf that lasts forever.

100% 

will-never-fade

1970's

era

 vintage

double-knit

 polyester.

 My favorite block has a printed background.

How about that? A REAL quilt.

Okay, now back to my stuff.

I am auditioning the checkery brushed cotton for the border strips. Oh wait, I have to press the pouf out of the pieced border first. I won't have any poly-pouf looking mess in my quilts. That would make you-know-who happy. No sir; not happening. 

And June, the next photo is for you. Sweet baby Kitten has been neglected on the blog since Joseph James moved in.

But she is here, and she got to be outdoors too; soaking up some sun and breathing in some fresh air.

Thanks be to God for all the blessings great and small (poufy and not) in my life.