I have been chipping away at Rosette 2 of the New Hexagon Millefiori Quilt along, and I have only to sew on some more of the outer round,
If you are doing the project as well, you will probably notice that I have wandered away from the pattern in a couple of details...
At some point I decided to add another row of hexagons to the top and bottom of the design to make it rectangular instead of square,
This is the plan I made to keep things sort of organized.
Also, I changed the configuration of a couple of the rosettes. This happened when I was doing Rosette 2 and I decided that I wanted to see more of the pattern that was forming in the outer ring. You know how one thing leads to another...
The other thing that happened was that i decided to sub-piece some of the larger diamonds.
My rosette needed a bit of an accent so i changed a plain diamond to contain a smaller diamond of adeep color accent,
Also, when I chose gold for those diamonds that make up Block 6, the print became too busy, and the solid was too boring, so I decided to use them both,
Now it is March, and the instructions for Rosette 3 are available! So of course I have started to get things moving on it, ....
getting all my paper pieces ready for it..... I just photocopy a halfinch equilateral triangle graph paper on to cardstock and cut out the needed shapes, which is quite a relaxing activity in itself.
These are my first two rosettes!
