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Quilting Sidebar

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I have entered a bit of a "quilting sidebar", setting aside the Mendocino quilt top and deciding to finish up my Kaffe Broken Dishes quilt back so that this "5312-piece-top" of a quilt can be put together and find a new home on my granddaughter's bed here at my house. Here is a picture of the Kaffe quilt back while it was under construction. It is all finished now with Carla Miller's long OOP green and pink "Chicken Scratch" fabric totally surrounding the 48-inch wide broken dishes piece you see here. I also got the itch to try a "One Block Wonder" hexagon quilt just to see what happened.  It was an awful lot of fun to prepare and construct these hexagons.  They certainly do not look at all like the original fabric that I used, except for the range of colors that are displayed.  Here are the quilt top pieces laid out and ready to be put together.  Just for fun, here is a picture of the gorgeous peacock fabric I used for thes