I spent several hours over the weekend working on the Peacock. I was determined to make progress and I did! I am pleased with the progress that I made. Several hard decisions were made and lots of sewing was completed.
I spent a lot of time on Saturday making the smaller hexagons large enough to fit into the rows of the piece. During this joy I kept asking myself whose bright idea it was to add the smaller hexagons to the piece. They take more time and are a bit fiddly. Most of those I worked on will be on the darker side of the top of the piece. I will scatter them around and up to the top. A few will go on the lighter side.
Including this, I am marching up to the top of the piece. I am a row away from having full strips to piece into the top and I can’t wait.
I took some time to piece the rows together on the bottom. These are just long and awful seams. I can’t do any chunking on this piece, which is a pain. I want to finish the left side including the small hexagons with black backgrounds in a border type treatment and then move the entire piece over towards the left so I can work on the right.
I’d love to tell you tomorrow I have the top finished, but I think that would be too optimistic. I plan to work more on it today and, hopefully, make some good progress.
I always wanted to do a one piece wonder. I’m happy you have been posting about it, because now I think I will have other things to do! Although it’s looking great, It seems like too much work. ?
It is a lot of work and after I made the blocks, most of the fun was over. It will be an interesting quilt, but it is a lot of work!
The smaller hexagons add appeal!
Thanks! I am glad they do. That makes them worth the effort.
The smaller hexagons add appeal! W.