Just Hexie-ing Along♡

Hello lovely lovelies♡  'Tis Sunday again♡ It is well. It is well with my little world, this sunny, Sunday afternoon. Well, at least it is well with my Flower Meadow quilt. 

I am hexie-ing along again. Just moseying along  preparing  what seems a gazillion little hexies for my Flower Meadow. I've decided that I'm okay with a little asymmetry (well....I think I am) re the sides of my quilt. I'm okay with this quilt being a little skew-whiff. I've thrown my arms up into the air in surrender and decided to listen to my little pretty. I  acquiesced to her small but incessant voice and went with her plea of keeping it simple. All thoughts of grandiose borders have been thrown out the window and my meadow of bright and happy hexie flowers will now be encircled by oodles of green hexies, do-si-doing around and around. I must admit, 'she' was correct. Simple can sometimes be the very best thing. But then, quilts always know what's best, don't they?? One can have a design in one's mind but ultimately the final decision rests with the quilt. Who am I to disagree?? 

The fabric I chose for the border hexies is a soft green batik with just a hint of smudges of tiny watercolour flowers, giving a sense of grass with tiny flowers peeking through. This fabric is leftover from my quilt,  A Stroll Through Pete's Garden. There were a couple of metres left over, just enough (I think.....I hope.....I pray on bended knees) for Flower Meadow. I must say it is the perfect fabric. I rather love the soft, muted look as it causes the flowers to bloom even brighter, if that is at all possible. =) The hexies seem to take the eyes away from this quilt's blight. If you look at some of the photos, especially the collage photo, you can see that in every second horizontal row the flower on the left side of the quilt is half a hexie in to the right. Oh well, such is life.

Shall we have a lookity look at my Flower Meadow's progress??

I know 'tis a bit strange to begin the border before the main body of the quilt is finished but I wanted to see if my thoughts of the little green hexies dancing around the hexie flowers was eye pleasing. I think it is. My eyes don't immediately go to the little blight but they just see the beauty of the flowers and the green border. Also, as I may not have enough of the green border fabric, as I stitch each new row of hexie flowers I will also add the border hexies to each side. The size of this quilt will be determined by the number of green hexies I have. This quilt could very well turn out to be a most interesting size. I feel like a small child counting each hexie. Unlike my inability to comprehend the tessellation pattern of hexies, I am quite adept at counting by ones, twos, threes etc etc. I grasped the concept of counting in kindergarten. After that everything that is maths related is a complete blur! =) 

I have enjoyed a lovely Sunday afternoon sitting in my little sun trap that is The Fernery. Now that cooler days have taken up residence The Fernery is the place to be; to sit, to read.....to stitch. Later this evening I will join the happy band of slow stitchers at Kathy's place and be inspired by all that I see. I hope when Sunday comes aknocking at your door it is a lovely one sprinkled with a little beauty♡

Until the next time............