Scrappy Sorting

Do you remember a while back when my friend Emily helped me to sort through all of my fabric???

(I blogged about it HERE when I got my longarm)

 Well the two boxes above got CRAMMED full of scraps. (CRAMMED PACKED FULL!)

It was my assignment to go through them and sort them.

Sunday afternoon I (FINALLY) did just that.

One box ended up with scraps 3.5" square or larger and the other box has 3.48" to 2.5" pieces.

The larger piece box is to be cut into 3.5" squares for future scrappy projects.

The smaller sizes are for my grandmothers flower garden hexy project.

During my sorting, I even was able to come up with another garbage sack full of 

scraps I don't really like :) 

Katie has graciously offered to take these off of my hands!

Feeling so pleased with myself, I decided to count my hexy flowers to see where I am.

I have quite a few more to go, but now that I am a bit more organized,

 I feel better about moving forward :)

To keep up on my hexy project, see the hashtag #GrammiesScrappyWildFlowerPatch on Instagram.

Grandmother's Garden Progress

I was able to baste more hexies last week :)

I found this website that has a hexy calculator.  You type in the dimensions of the quilt you want to make, and it calculates how many hexies you need to make :)  The website is CD Designs and you can get to the calculator HERE.

According to this calculator, I will need 2930 one inch hexies to make a full size quilt.  So I need 418.57 flowers :)  So lets just say that I will only need 418 flowers.

Here are my tallies:
418 flowers needed, 10 flowers made, 408 left to go.
2926 hexies needed, 256 made, 2670 left to go.

Grandmother's Garden Progress

I am trying to use up my scraps :)

I thought an EPP Grandmother's Garden would be perfect.

These are 1" hexies.