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A month of Reading and Sewing

In January I started reading the Daisy Dalrymple series of books by Carola Dunn set in the 1920s.They are currently available in the Plus Catalogue on Audible here in the UK. Today (3rd February 2024) I finished the 20th title in the series (Gone West-photo on the left of the collage below- just 3 to go).

I’ve really enjoyed the lightness of this “Cosy Crime” series set just after the Great War. The British class system is shown in all its ridiculous splendour with the Upper Class that Daisy was born into clashing with the Middle Class that DCI Alec Fletcher was born into, and the Working Class people that they meet along the way (servants, and general men in the street).

Alec’s mother-in-law (1st wife’s mother) who is Middle Class agrees with Daisy’s mother (a Dowager Viscountess) that Alec and Daisy make a quite unsuitable couple.

I have to admit I love how characters develop in a series and the author has certainly allowed the repeating characters develop and grow.

Left screenshot of Gone West in audible. The cover art is a lady wearing a cloche hat and flapper dress in a library with a coffee table and fancy dining chair. The text beneath this art has the information (title, author, narrator, length of book). Top right the half hexagons are fussy cut lion heads (pink, and orange), the triangles are pastel blue hexagons with light and dark pink concentric hexagon lines- their spokes are clockwise). In the photo centre right this block is the bottom of the centre column. Bottom right the half hexies are grey hippo heads alternating with a yellow bird or yellow butterfly on a blue background and are anti clockwise. The triangles are red hexagons with light and dark blue concentric hexagon lines. This block is the bottom of the two on the right column of the centre photo.

I’m currently struggling with my sewing due to how my eyes react to the lighting but I have managed to sew the last 2 of this set of 7 blocks at long last.

The blocks all consist of 6 half hexagons sewn to 6 equilateral triangles so that the half hexagons swirl like the spokes of a waterwheel.

4 of the hexagons the spokes turn anticlockwise the other 3 the spokes turn clockwise (the centre 3 in the centre photo on the right side of the collage)

A reminder the pattern I’m sewing is by Jodi Godfrey of Tales of Cloth called Hexie Harvest using her Hexie Handbook.

Jodi ran a sew along from February last year. The papers and acrylic templates arrived at the end of November 2022 and I started preparing/ making blocks just before Christmas hoping to be able to finish them at approximately the same sort of time as as everyone else (August 2023)

https://www.talesofcloth.com/pages/hexie-harvest-quilt-club-2023

https://wasthatadinosaur.wordpress.com/2022/12/30/this-time-next-year-update/

These blocks bring my total to 9 sets of 7 hexagons (63) plus 2 I made early last year from another set of blocks which I plan to start sewing the other 5 blocks of the set. I have to admit I’m not looking forward to this set as it involves sewing 12 small diamond pieces which I find very fiddly.

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