Back doing the hexagons.

I really thought I had enough of the hexagon flowers. And in fact I do, but not enough of the pale green eau de nil. I found a strip to make just enough more of them.
I have a beam compass but the chaos of the studio meant I could not find the beam. Two choices, either keep hunting and lose more time or just measure it out over and over again until I could make a big circle and join up the dots. I opted for the latter. The circle has an 18" radius so will measure about 38" because I am not lining up the hexagons inside the circle.

This is as far as I got before I realised the lack of eau de nil.

And yet more vintage chintzes.

Yet again Laura Ashley reproductions printed and glazed in Holland in the 1980s.

Meanwhile I  still hate Windows 8.1 and will probably download the Classic Shell but I want to get my photos and files off my old hard drive first.

And something more serious. Ebola. My daughter's best friend Holly is out in Sierra Leone working for Oxfam. She is not nursing or being a doctor but nonetheless she is out there working. She has learnt how they now greet people, not by a handshake, but the Ebola greeting of putting your hand on your chest.  She met Mary, a community health worker who said ''One of my friends family, 10 of them are all dead in one house. If you are on Twitter you can follow Holly here. If you are not, then please donate to Oxfam in the UK, Oxfam in the USA, or Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders). 
It is no exaggeration to say Holly and everyone working in the Ebola stricken regions have put their lives on the line to help. The least we can do is give some cash.  
 You can hear Holly here on the BBC this afternoon.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FAQDvpyln8&feature=youtu.be

I survived, just.

I still cannot work out a way to show you the complete quilt top, but I can show you this quarter. It is all stitched down. Now it is ready for marking for quilting. And designing the quilting. I have lots of space to do some fancy stuff but haven't given much thought what that stuff shall be.....

 The colours are not right but so far I haven't managed to download a version of Picassa, my favourite freebie photo editing program which works with the dreaded Windows 8.1 . I have no idea who thought having a tablet operating system on a desktop was a good idea or why, but it isn't. It never will be. I can just about understand it for people who go between one sort of machine and another, but even then you should be able to deactivate the part of Windows which just doesn't apply.

George was 'helping' whilst I appliqued. You might think this is quite cute but twisting and turning a piece this large isn't easy and with his help, the task is not easier. Add the fact he often has muddy paws and he is not very welcome up here. This photo was on my phone. The colours are not this bright but somewhere between the two photos.

I am taking a break off Facebook for a couple of weeks. I can feel withdrawal symptoms coming on. It is an odd thing making friends with people all over the planet. You end up caring very deeply about them when things go wrong and sharing their joys when good things happen.