Last purple post

I've spent most of this past month feeling like my batteries have been drained, but I did manage to get a little bit of work done.
En Provence is still ticking slowly along.  It's nice to have a project that has all the thinking done, so I can just let myself be soothed by the hum of the sewing machine.

I've got 8 blocks done, out of a planned 9.  Though I'm still thinking about making it a 3x4 setting instead of this 3x3, which would mean I'll need four more blocks rather than just one.  I'll have a better idea of the size after I get this lot assembled.

Several of the blocks that I made last year for RSC have been carried over for this year's challenge.
I finally managed to get one of Chantal's pinwheel blocks assembled.  I'm seeing a lot of people taking up this block for RSC this year, which makes me really happy.  And apparently the name of the block is Hidden Gems, which works for me!

I got one Jacks on Sixes done.

Or Anvil, or Hovering Hawk, or any of a bunch of different names for this block.  I'm calling them Jacks and then calling it a day.

And another block that I don't know the name of -

which I've been calling Whatchacallit Stars.  I've been slowly building up a store of these since last year, but since they're 6" blocks it's taking a long time for them to add up to a quilt of any size.   I thought I had a more recent photo than this

of them all together, but this is the only one I could find.  I'll have to drag them out and see what I've got.

One of my highest priorities was to fix the wing on Sally T's Chicken block -

It explains why I had a little purple square left over when I originally made the block...

And I made another paper-pieced chicken while I was playing with purple chickies.

And then I gathered up the gang for a group shot.

I think I'm going to call the quilt "Cluckers."
It's going to be an interesting year.


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