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Finally finished piecing this quilt top!

I started this one years ago, and it has been in the WIP box for ages. I wanted to try something that wasn't hexagons and was quicker to complete, so I chose larger diamonds for this project. It stalled, like so many of my projects in the years gone by.

Added another section. And I have one page of the hexagon grid in the M5 ring binder filled.

I got this notebook a long time ago ... ten years back? Maybe even further back? I couldn't figure out what to use it for, especially after I started using fountain pens, since the paper is not fp-friendly at all. A few years ago I began to use it to list books — what I was currently reading, upcoming book club reads, books I read that year. It's a completely redundant notebook, honestly. Everything I recorded here is already tracked on StoryGraph (and previously on Goodreads), but I like writing things down.

Yet another EPP project. These are two-inch hexagons. The projects I've been posting here aren't new — not a single one was started this year, even. I have no idea when I started this quilt top, but it's definitely been in that WIP box for years. I just finished sewing the last piece today. I'll have to add a wide border to make it large enough to snuggle under.

This one has notes from Qur'an translation/tafseer lessons. This is the Dreamday Pattern Journal; I have all the notebooks in the set.

Fountain pens used: Moonman M2, TWSBI Eco, Platinum Preppy, all of them with fine nibs. The mechanical pencil is a Pentel Sharplet-2 in 0.9 mm. (I make too many mistakes in Arabic to use a pen.)

I've read this book before, but I can't remember most of the details. So I was listening to the audiobook and went 'I'm sorry, who?' when Eachamarcach was mentioned, and had to go dig out the paperback. Obviously I had no idea how most of the names were pronounced, but I also had not expected to be that far off.

It's not completely improv — I draw overlapping hexagons on a grid and colour them in as I add more pieces to the quilt. There's a bigger sheet I have pinned to a corkboard, but I keep the portion I'm working on in this M5 ring binder.

Another work in progress. At least this one is machine-pieced — most of the other WIPs are EPP.

Books read in November 2025.

Is it a quilt if it's barely quilted? I sewed a few straight lines to tack down the backing, and that's it. I didn't bother with batting. The blocks don't quite align properly at some corners, but it was my first large project with triangles. Also probably my last. So much ironing and trimming; not my favourite activities.

Still working on this! It's taking forever, but it's moving along.