Octagons and hexies

Yesterday's progress on the octagon quilt.  Slow work, but very relaxing.  The little black octagon is already sewn to the large square, and now needs to be attached to the side of the little orange flower one.  I'm thinking that I should first attach another large square first.  This is easy easy work; the hard part is figuring out in which order I should sew these guys together.

Third block in progress.  That skinny little needle is nasty.  I keep poking myself with it.  No blood, yet, but any second now.