This is the first project I started working on in my craft space here in Colorado 2 1/2 years ago.

It’s one of those projects that has been percolating in my mind for a very, very long time.  I fell in love with the plaid Moda silky fabric when I lived in Ohio and came home with several half yards of it.  It was neatly folded on a shelf so I could admire it and dream up just the thing to do with it.  I decided to add some plain natural linen to the stack, then some solid brown linen joined in.  Once we had moved here I had settled on this hexagon pattern made of triangles because the directional plaids and stripes would make it so fun.  As I pieced the long strips, cut them into triangles, and then into half hexagons I would run out of linen and run out to find another fabric to add.

The top has been finished for quite awhile– completed on one of my sewing dates with my good friend RaeLyn.  It’s just been folded up sitting under my drafting table waiting for me to get with it and find some fabric for the back.  Well, I did– and the perfect binding fabric too.  Ian helped me open safety pins as I basted the layers while Ellie guarded.

Now for the quilting.  I think it’ll take me a lot less time than piecing it did.

Walking foot, here I come!