Archie The Wonder Dog

Long, long ago (well, 13th August 2011 - it feels like a long time ago!) I started piecing hexagons, along with many others, as part of Lynne's hexalong , which was inspired by this fabulous quilt  by Lizzie Broderie .   I decided to go for a 'Miss Marple's garden' look for my quilt - a sort of typical English cottage garden look and all which that phrase brings to mind, without the dead bodies!  It's been quite a while since I last laid out all my hexies, when I had pieced 101 of them, so I was really looking forward to seeing them all again and finding out if the quilt was going to work.  On Monday I laid them out (on a blanket on the front room floor) and I think I'm finished faffing with the layout.  At least, I am unless you all have changes to suggest! It took ages to lay them all out.  I had to start somewhere so I started with the hexies that had seams going anticlockwise, so I could put them together and surround them with hexies without seams at

I've spent this afternoon faffing about with my hexies and thought that while I faff some more lay them all out and try to sort out the arrangement I'd bore you with share some yet more photos of the hexies.  This time I've photographed them in design groups so you can see all the similar hexies together.  There are a fair few photos so I'd make yourself a (large!) cup of tea before you get going... Oh, and if you click on them you can see them in Flickr - there are some other photos in my Hexies set , just in case you haven't had enough by the time you get to the bottom, including four hexies that have already been culled... Design A - the first half Design A - the second half (the safety pins are marking the hexies whose seams rotate anticlockwise) Design B Design C Design D Design E - a really simple hexy, to offset all the fancy pants hexies! Design F Design G Design H.  I think I need to swap the lila