HexyMF (or: the reason I learned to english paper piece)

About four years ago, I saw Katy Jones'  HexyMF quilt and fell in love.  As luck would have it, Katy decided to host a quilt-a-long for the quilt.  So I bought fabric, and paper pieces, and went at it with gusto - I remember sitting in a two-day long orientation for nursing school and surviving the boredom because I basted my hexies the whole time :)

I finished the main portion of the top fairly quickly, and then when it came time to add the outer vines I lost steam.  So the almost-finished top sat in a corner untouched for more than two years.  

But this quilt is too awesome not to finish, so I pulled it out this summer and finally finished those vines.  

At some point in the process, I had decided that I would send it to a long-armer for quilting -- I knew I wanted it to be swirly-whirly-girly, and I am not good enough at free motion quilting to do that myself.  So I found Sarah on Instagram, chose a pattern and mailed it off (which was terrifying.  Trusting the USPS with this beauty? OMG)... and when I got it back it was perfect.  Exactly how I had envisioned it.  

And now it is bound, washed, and on my lap at every opportunity - it almost makes me wish we weren't having such a warm fall!  Almost.