Quick, As Quilts Go

Day 177: When I began this project on March 23, my goal was to create an entirely hand-stitched quilt with a maximum of 230 hexagons. "If I do one a day," I told myself, "I can be done in under a year. Maybe I'll even make two occasionally." Yesterday, I created an astonishing record of EIGHT, and there has not been a single day when I have made less than two. At this rate, this will be the quickest I have ever finished a quilt, and the only thing which might hold that up is a shortage of fabrics. By default, there are a lot of cats in this one because I've made three in the last couple of years which were all cats, just cats, nothing but cats, but this one also includes sheep, birds, wildlife, flowers, leaves, mushrooms, bugs, fruits and vegetables, tractors, and assorted farm animals. While not exactly a "crazy quilt" (which, after all, is randomly shaped pieces), there is enough here to keep anyone amused playing the Quilt Game, searching for matching pieces, singletons, sequences and even hidden word-play (e.g., an owl with a cat-themed border would be "The Owl and the Pussycat," which I've included in several quilts). The Quilt Game is only limited by your own imagination! At this juncture, I have 68 of 230 hexagons completed. Duplicates will go in the second half of the quilt.