Twinkling Triangles

The Twinkling Triangles Advent sew-along hosted by Melanie @mellmeyer is just one of the new projects/activities I started on Monday. This year, rather than make a quilt, we have the option of two pillow sizes or a wall hanging. I'm going for a 24" pillow.

This entire project will be paper-pieced, which isn't my first piecing language, but I don't mind it on occasion. Melanie suggested several palettes, and I've chosen to do mine monochrome in greens, letting the fabrics be randomly arranged. Here's the fabric I'm working with, all pulled from stash and just a bit from the scrap basket.

For a background, I chose Cotton + Steel Freckles in Cloud White Metallic, pretty much the only neutral cut I had that was large enough. And yes, I just bought that for giftbag linings - oops!

Anyway, the mystery begins today, and here is my first 'block!' I'm loving those greens together!

Oh, and there's been a bonus behind-the-scenes activity the last few days.... Our sew-along hostess, Melanie, had a little incident with her rotary cutter, and is currently unable to sew! So guess who's been helping just a bit, sewing ahead, and sending pictures of her blocks to Melanie so she can post them? Yup, me! It's been good, and we were able to chat over IG call (??) between her home in Germany and mine in the US. Fun times!