Radiant Orchid

I'm not much of a purple person. I don't dislike it. I don't love it. Usually it makes me think of my mum. She wears a lot of purple. And painted her living room lavender. Overall, I've been a little surprised by the strong dislike of purple from many corners of the quilt blogging community and so was amused when Pantone declared Radiant Orchid the colour of the year. I decided to join the ranks of those wrestling with this under appreciated colour to see if I could take purple from "meh" to "yum!". These posts by Adrianne from On the Windy Side and Anne from Play Crafts really helped open me up to purple's potential.

After much fabric auditioning I settled on these.

I started with this little star...

 ...and decided to combine a number of items on my quilty bucket list.

Medallion quilt - tick

Mini quilt - tick

Tiny piecing - tick (nothing smaller than a square inch finished - I'm not completely mad... yet...)

Accurate piecing - a little soon to tell but so far so good, it's really obvious when tiny blocks don't line up!

I have spent hours cutting tiny pieces, and of course just when I thought they were all done I changed my mind and needed more! But if I've counted correctly they're all done now and it's just a simple matter of putting them all together. 

Yep... Simple...

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Edited to add:

I'm excited to be linking up to Freshly Pieced's WIP Wednesday today! It's my first link up. A big hello to anyone visiting from there. It's so nice to have you visit :-)