Design Wall Monday

Octagon flowers!  That's what's on my design floor today.  Each one of these little guys is made up of 5 pieces:  the 1" center diamond and 4 elongated hexagons.  They are joined by 2" squares.  It's a lot of hand work, but it goes very quickly.

I think English paper piecing is my place in the quilting universe.  I love how each block builds and then joins the others.  Every one is a decision.  The Hubz calls it the "hmm" factor.  I'll play around with placing the octies and do a lot of hmmm-ing.  What should I put here?  What there?  I love this.

I never pre-plan color order.  In my Fair Isle heyday, I'd never color my charts.  Just bought entirely too many colors and then played as I went along.  I don't want to know how something will look before I do it; I like serendipity.  So it is with EPP.  My cup of tea.

I don't care about speed, either.  I just love being able to do a little bit of piecing here and there.