I worked on my Grandmother’s Flower Garden for 15 minutes this morning, according to my new plan. I am feeling very enthusiastic and decided not to wait until 2011! Some of these fabrics are so precious to me. I feel very sentimental about the scraps that bring back lovely memories. ..a blouse that I made [...]
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Gran’s Flower Garden on the Design Wall
Posted in Design Wall Monday, Gran's Flower Garden, tagged Design Wall Monday, English paper piecing, Gran's Flower Garden, Quilting, Scrap quilting, Sewing on August 2, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Busy busy week (Stash Report)
Posted in Gran's Flower Garden, Stash Reports 2010, tagged bath mat, Gran's Flower Garden, Patriotic blocks, Quilting, Sewing, stash report on August 1, 2010 | 6 Comments »
What bliss! I’ve been sewing every single day this week! I have now finished 58 patriotic blocks, and I made a second recycled bath mat. I also did some mending, cut out a pair of pyjamas for my little girl and started basting a lap quilt that’s been waiting in my stack of UFO tops. [...]
How to make your own Grandmother’s Flower Garden quilt
Posted in Gran's Flower Garden, Sewing, tagged Gran's Flower Garden, quilt pattern, Quilting and Sewing, Scrap quilting, Sewing on November 10, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I found some excellent and informative links today with historical background and instructions for Grandmother’s Flower Garden quilts and wanted to share with those quilters who would like to try this technique. It’s a great way to use up small pieces of scrap fabric. As shown in these links, there are several different methods of [...]
The quilt pattern most likely to….
Posted in Gran's Flower Garden, Sewing, tagged Gran's Flower Garden, hand piecing, scrap quilts, Unfinished Objects on November 9, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I read a while back that the quilt pattern mostly likely to be left unfinished and abandoned when the quilter has moved on to Quilting Heaven is…..the Grandmother’s Flower Garden. I can totally relate to this. I have a GFG that is now about 14 years old. Growing a Grandmother’s Flower Garden Quilt Once upon [...]
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