Hexie quilt

I'm sure I'm not the only one who's started and put aside a Grandmother's Hexagon Flower quilt. I have one I work on in bits and pieces here and there with 30's prints and a green pindot. Heck, I even bought the hexagon punches that are SO ridiculously hard to find so I can use the same size hexies that I bought papers for a few years ago! (The original seller on eBay doesn't post hexie punches anymore.)

While I was dog/housesitting, I needed another project after I finished Abby's quilt. My machine was there, I had plenty of room to cut...so while at home, I grabbed a stack of girl's summer dress prints I had pulled aside during the reorganization of the stash. Most were about 1/4yd pieces, with a few 1/2yds mixed in. I remember a tutorial I found a few years ago where a lady made half-hexies using a 60 degree triangle ruler. To be perfectly honest, I've had NO luck using the ruler to actually cut triangles and piece them without a huge bubble in the middle :( But since these wouldn't be triangles, I figured it would be okay.

So I cut...

 and I sewed...

I didn't want to think about matching hexies-I wanted brainlessly simple :) If they matched up? Yay!

And it finished like this...

Well, that's part of it. It finished about 52"x68" after the 4" strawberry print border was added. Backing was a teal bedsheet picked up from Walmart at 11:30 at night because I wanted to quilt that sucker THAT NIGHT. I seriously completed this from cutting to binding in under a 24 hour period with tons of interruptions.

This quilt is full of no-nos. The fabric is, I guess it would be considered a pique?, that's likely a poly-cotton blend. The bedsheet backing. The high-loft batting (they seriously had no thinner batts at Walmart that night in a size larger than crib!) This might also be the quilt that my family has fought over the most (go figure.) My sister saw it while in it's flimsy stage, but my mom was first to see it finished-and she claimed it. I honestly thought I'd get to keep this because it's so colorful and loud-definitely didn't think my sister would want it with her calm green/blue/brown decor! But when I took it to her apartment for Paisley's picture, she said one day my mom would have to give someone else a chance to claim a finished quilt. Doesn't help she's been waiting on, um...2? Supposed to be birthday quilts. I need to work on this most recent one I showed her for her actual birthday this year...I just get too sidetracked with ideas and put it aside to work on them :(

Paisley loved it-she hopped on the bed as soon as I laid it out for my sister to see. Too bad her gramma took the pretty away from her...

But Kaden's quite enjoying it. If he sees it on my mom's bed, he hops on. If he's in her room when she goes to bed and covers herself with it, he lays on her feet/legs/back so HE'S on his quilt.

Ok, back to sewing. I have 2 projects going with some Chrysalis precuts, still have the Sugar Pop, the Gypsy Change, found a star quilt I started to quilt together then put away, made 16 patch blocks with the leftovers from Abby's quilt...I need to settle down and work on ONE project at a time. I seriously have 12 or so in rotation right now :/

Here's my sister's quilt that I've stalled out on-and I'm still in the piecing stage! D:

The blocks are so simple, it's ridiculous that it's taking me THIS long to work on them. They finish about 15" square, and I have the fabric for 20 blocks. Then I just have to figure out a setting so I can make those 20 blocks fit a queen-sized bed. I might send hers out to be professionally quilted-depends on my money at the time, I guess. Seeing as her birthday is New Year's Day, I probably should also take the holidays into consideration...I'm going to end up finishing this quilt to the end, aren't I?