Was that a dinosaur? 2.0

My New Years Rissolution* part 2

*Rabbit made a rissolution at the end of The House At Pooh Corner.

https://wasthatadinosaurcouk.uk/2025/12/31/my-new-years-rissolution-part-1/

At the end of part 1 I mentioned I had a couple of hand sewing projects I wanted to work on.

The first is a continuation of a project I started 2 years ago where each set of hexagons is made a different way.

Described in the text below

A large whiteboard filled with colourful hexagonal quilt blocks arranged in a grid pattern. Each piece features fabrics with a unique pattern and colour scheme, ranging from floral and geometric designs to abstract and paisley patterns.
Each row has the block made a different way.
Top to bottom mostly 7 per row

  1. Centre hexagon with 6 equilateral triangles making a star then framed with diamonds to form the hexagon
  2. Centre hexagon framed by 6 half hexagons
  3. 6 kite shapes
  4. 3 hexagon thirds (pentagons)
  5. A centre large diamond with 4 half hexagons and 4 small diamonds framing it
  6. 2 half hexagons
  7. Large hexagon
  8. 3 diamonds
  9. 6 small equilateral triangles and 6 half hexagons sewn to make 6 large equilateral triangles and arranged so the half hexagons look like a waterwheel 1 block)
  10. 6 diamonds form a centre star and are framed by 6 diamonds in a different colour (2 blocks)

Since taking this photo in October 2023 I finished all the blocks for row 9 and 4 more blocks for row 10 which means I’m almost two thirds of the way through making my blocks. It would be nice to finish this quilt this year.

The second hand sewing project is using hexagons made from quilt seeds (scraps) of previous projects. As I was recovering from my folic acid deficit and slowly stopped sleeping around the clock I started basting the hexagons onto papers that I had cut from a recent project I squirrelled into making during the summer.

Plastic trays filled with stacks of colourful fabric hexagons, organised neatly in separate compartments. Each pile features fabric pieces of different colours, patterns, and prints, suggesting they are being prepared for a project. The patterns include stripes, florals, polka dots, and abstract designs.

Top colour sorted hexagons were what I already had.

Bottom mixed colour are the nearly 600 hexagons I basted as I convalesced.

I had a pattern in mind but when I colour sorted the hexagons I didn’t have the colour selection I needed for that pattern.

Plastic organiser tray with multiple compartments, each filled with small, neatly stacked hexagon-shaped fabric pieces in assorted colourful patterns. The fabrics include a variety of bright and vivid prints, such as florals, stripes, polka dots, and abstract patterns, mostly in shades of blue, purple, pink, green, yellow, black, and red.

For the pattern I had in mind needed the colours to be pretty even in numbers which they clearly weren’t…

Like Ross from Friends I know when to “Pivot!”

So I started playing with the idea of a Grandmother’s Flower Garden quilt.

A colourful arrangement of fabric hexagons is displayed on a white table. The hexagons are placed together to form a larger hexagonal shape; a yellow reading hexagon in the centre is surrounded by 6 red reading hexagons, the surrounded by 8 white reading and 4 green reading hexagons. Each hexagon features a different fabric pattern, including florals, geometric designs, birds, moons, and dots in bright and pastel colours such as green, yellow, red, pink, and blue. Some hexagons are cream with decorative prints, while others are solid or patterned with more vibrant hues. The pieces are neatly arranged, and each fabric has been cut precisely into a hexagonal shape. The lighting highlights the textures and colours vividly.

Though I loved my first flower (6 red reading fabrics around a yellow reading fabric) I wasn’t happy with the white and green reading fabrics and Willow was batting my hexagons off the table so I started playing with them on my magnetic whiteboard.

I made more flowers then pondered my pink frog faces…

Well of course my garden needs a pond!

Colourful hexagons on a whiteboard, arranged in various flower-like clusters. Each cluster consists of several hexagons with different vibrant patterns, such as leaves, owls, moons, and abstract designs. The section with frog faces will be a pond. The overall look is playful and decorative.

And luckily I have some fish fabric so my frogs can have company.

Hexagon-shaped fabric patches on a white table. There are six patches visible: two grey with yellow pinstripes, one with abstract golden fish on a green and blue background, one with a colourful salmon on a turquoise background, one with a red and gold fish on a bright green and blue background, and one with a gold and orange fish on a blue-green background with pink accents.

Okay so normally salmon wouldn’t be in the goldfish pond but this project has the potential to be a lot of fun.

Until next time which will be in the New Year.

Wishing you all the best 2026.

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