I've just been given another bag of fabric from someone who bought it for a project but then decided EPP wasn't for them.
I suddenly realised this wasn't the first time, in fact qite a number of started projects with hexagons/hexagon shaped holes have been given me, usually with fairly small hexagons. I've even been given the rest of the purchased papers and sets of metal templates.
This time it was Laura Ashley - 5 co-ordinating prints, 4 had been a yard and 1 two yards, and about 2 yards of plain co-ordinating, plus about 6 'rosettes' now undone as they were stitched with plastic thread! So quite a lot of money was spent on the fabric.
I wonder how many people start hexagons and English Paper Piecing (here it seems to be what most people think 'Patchwork' is) and then abandon it. There must be drawers and drawers of fabric around the country crying to get out, all with little hexagon shaped holes in one corner!
I have a pattern for a quillow using 5 prints so have spent the morning cutting the strips for it. Then it will eventually go to the animal charity that the bag of fabric was donated to before it was passed to me. They raffled a single bed quilt someone had donated half made and the local craft group had finished. Then some people said it was the wrong colours for their room, so I thought that with a Quillow it would be popular because of its novelty value, and the fact that it is in terracotta and cream wouldn't matter. If I get it finished by the Christmas Fayre the winner can always give it away as a Christmas pressy if they don't like it! I will probably use the completed hexagons in the pillow part - have to make a few more though. Personally I would be thrilled to win anything quilted, whatever the colour.
The lot before that I have made into a yellow brick road baby quilt (actually a pinky brick road) that I really must quilt before the baby arrives next month!
Photos will follow when there is something fit to be photographed!