A New Year, A New Hexie Flower!

Another hexie flower was completed the last week of 2022 using 3/4" hexies. Only the light fabric center was EPP'd before.

I don't know why the light fabrics look stained. They aren't in real life. Maybe the brown in the quartz throws off the color?

Here's a picture of the old blanket chest with 8 completed flowers on top. I need at least 8 more flowers. 

I had added a few light hexies to the edge of one block but I didn't think they looked right so I removed them. This table runner is going to be rather dark. I'm trying to brighten the flowers up by adding some lighter fabrics.

Years ago I had pieced centers for the flowers, there are 8 centers left.

You can see in above picture how beat up the lid of the chest is. It's really old, the date on the front of the chest says 1874. It also says E. Miller who was a great-aunt of my mother. I assume the E. stands for Elizabeth which is also my mother's name but I don't know for sure. That's a story lost to time.

Here are links to prior posts about the 3/4" Hexie quilt. Post 1, Post 2.

I'm enjoying working on these hexies but I make a mess with all the fabrics I'm auditioning. 

Linking to Kathys Slow Stitching Sunday, Stitching Stuff, Oh Scrap, Sew & Tell,  Handmade Monday, Design Wall Monday, Craftastic Monday, Monday Musings