This week I have added the hunter green border to three and a half of my large diamonds for a total of four and a half diamonds completed. I show my four complete diamonds as proof. I’m not faking it. Really.
That leaves me with three and a half hunter green borders to complete. which I hope to accomplish this week. I timed myself on the sewing of one hunter green border. I go into detail about that in yesterday’s post, Timing My Hexagon Work. It took me six hours to complete one hunter green border resulting in a sewing speed of 2.25 minutes per seam. That’s two minutes and fifteen seconds per seam. I’m slow but steady, and I suppose that makes it even more amazing how much I managed to complete this past week. I figure that I spent twenty one hours piecing last week on those three and a half borders.
It is my goal to spend another twenty one hours piecing this week and finish the remaining three and a half borders. Then I can begin assembly of the diamonds, which I expect to be the most fun part of this whole project.
I had a big scare this morning when I went to assemble all eight of my diamonds. I could only find seven of them. I looked all over and was beginning to think that I had made a mistake about how many I had made. After tearing the house apart I found the eighth diamond crumbled in a pile under my computer desk. It had fallen off my lap while I was blogging last night. Whew!
I’d like to share my simple travel sewing kit I am using lately. My kit varies depending on what I am doing. It is very simple right now. It is a Tupperware container with hunter green hexagons inside. It also includes my scissors, some spare needles, my sterling silver thimble, and my piecing thread.
I’m linking up with Jessica at Life Under Quilts.
The dark green really adds so much to your diamonds. The sewing kit is low- tech and effective. Simple is best!
Wonderful progress! Twenty-one hours spent on EPP!?! I am envious! No wonder your progress is going along at breakneck speed. I am enjoying watching this grow.
I keep thinking I need a second kit for just sewing my hexies together (not basting). But then I start to worry about my thimble and having to move it around and I just stick to one. (I used to have two thimbles, but the kitten relocated one of them and I am too cheap to buy a third.)
Ack. WordPress ate my comment! I said something like: I keep thinking I need a second kit for sewing hexies together (not basting) but then worry about keeping up with my thimble. I used to have two thimbles, but the kitten stole one and I’m too cheap to buy a third.
WordPress didn’t eat your comment. I have the blog set up so I have to approve comments before they show up. Once I approve one comment for you, any future comments are approved automatically. Maybe I should turn that off since it seems a bit confusing and unwelcoming. I should especially turn that off now that I am linking back to Life Under Quilts. I’ll look into how to do it. Edit: I did manage to make the change, and now I don’t need to moderate comments anymore, just pay attention to avoid problems with potential spam. I had a bad experience with a blog a couple years back. When someone drew my attention to the fact that I had a mountain of spam in my comments I set up moderation on that site. When I started here I just set up moderation as a matter of course, but I don’t think it is necessary if I keep an eye on things.
Very beautiful and so jealous of the time you get to spend on EPP 🙂 Great progress and your kit is really cool!
I am blessed to be retired, and to have so much time. After the novelty wore off though I wasn’t sure that retirement was the best thing for me because I lost purpose. When I no longer had colleagues with which to discuss teaching, and union activities, I felt a little lost. Discovering EPP has made me feel as if my life has purpose again. Now I have people to discuss quilting with online, and also at guild meetings locally. What a great quilting community there is out there to discover if one makes the effort. I can’t wait for Quiltcon in Austin.
Great progress!
So glad you found your runaway diamond. Must have been a heart-stopping moment…like losing a car in the parking lot…and the joy of finding it again!
The worst part of that event was thinking that I may have hallucinated making that diamond in the first place. I knew that if I had actually made it that it would show up somewhere in the house eventually. I just wasn’t sure it had ever really existed for a little while.