How many Hexies?

Today was a long and tiring day, so this evening I needed something soothing to do. I knew just the thing and so picked up the Grandmother's Garden quilt I've been making forever.... well almost forever and I checked just how far I'd got with the orange round. Back a couple of months ago I made some flowers and started to add them to the quilt. I got three flowers added.

I also had  four more flowers made and groups of 6 hexies made ready to sew into flowers.

I'd already pulled quite a lot of orange fabric from my stash but I did another trawl through incase I'd missed some. I also needed some suitable fabric to make the middle hexie of the flowers. It turns out that I have quite a lot of orange fabric. Some of the fabrics appear rather red but I assure you they are orange.

My task over the evening was to baste more hexies ready for sewing into flowers. I realised that if I prep them in an evening I can take them to work to sew together in my lunch break. In total I  need 48 flowers. There are 3 attached to the quilt and four more ready to attach, seven in all, That leaves 41 flowers to make over the month. Tomorrow is the 4th September and there are 30 days in the month so I have 27 days to make them. That's slightly less than one and a half flowers a days, which should be doable. I doubt I will get them all made but I'm going to try. This paragraph reads a little like a maths lesson, so I had to work out how many hexies I needed to make. I have 7 sets of hexies to make into flowers which means 42 hexies. Add these 7 sets to the 3 on the quilt and 4 waiting to be sewn on leaves 28 more flowers needed. 28 x 6 = 168. I know I have enough templates and I certainly have enough orange fabric. The big question is 'do I have the stamina to get them all basted and how many can I attach to the quilt. Watch this space. Since this is the penultimate chookshed challenge of the year I really want to try and get them made and added to the quilt.

I also finished listening to an audible book whilst prepping hexies. I enjoyed Marble Hill Murder by Anthony Horowitz and I didn't guess who had  done it until the end but I did guess the perpetrator of one of the sub plots.

This is just a quick post to identify the starting point of this months challenge. It will give me a realistic timeframe for completing the quilt. Now I need to sleep as I have a long and very busy day tomorrow at work. This week, I will be very pleased when we get to the weekend.

Take care

Lyndsey