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Help! I have come across a stack of Grandmother's Flower Garden blocks that were in my mother's stash. They are all hand pieced and the last "row" is white. Now I want to put these together into a quilt top but haven't a clue. So far my online search for instructions isn't yielding much as the how to do this. Need help, please!
Do you want to know how to attach them or how to sew them? YouTube had some excellent tutes......and Pinterest has tons of pics on different ways to put together....PaperPieces.com would be a site for info too....there are books with patterns too......lucky you to find that treasure...
Another thought.......maybe your LQS might have someone who can help you do this.
There are tons of pictures on Google for the different arrangements. Decide on what pattern you want to use and then watch a YouTube video on how to hand sew GFG pieces into a top. A lot of work but well worth it to have a quilt pieced by your Grandmother completed!
Are they piece with paper inside or did she hand sew them?? Do you have a local Quilt store that you can take them to and ask for their advice?? Sometimes I prefer having someone show me how to do something in person. I made this GFG using the plastic hexagons.
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My finished GFG quilt was hand pieced - I did not do the EPP method on that one. I made the flowers drawing the 1/4 inch seam line on each one. When I was ready to attach them with a white path between them it took a while and trial and error to get my rhythm. Hope I can write what I did and it makes sense. Starting with the first one I made the path (18 white hexagons), then attached the path to the flower. The next flower I would attach it to the completed flower, it will connect to 4 of the hexagons on the left side, then I made the next path using 14 hexagons and attached it to the flower. That was row one. (I work left to right when I sew my rows.) I also made 1/2 flowers so the rows would be even. And I would set the next row into the first row, sew it, then make the path and sew it on.
You have to figure out what works easiest for you. I have seen on-line where a lady did it with her machine. That was a lot of stop and turning for me because of all the "Y" seams.
Maybe it you show us a picture of what you have we can give more specific assistance.
I wasn't finding the "how to" on putting the blocks together into a top. Don't want to paper piece. quilting candy explained it well--thank you! I really like the picture with the leaves with the layout as that one is. Excellent ideas, ladies. Thanks again.
I did a GFG using a slightly different way to connect the flowers: I sew three hexagons together to kind of build a triangle and then sew the triangles to the flowers. Here's a pic of the finished quilt and one in progress so you can see the procedure I did:
.....or if you don't want to do it, see if you find someone who would do that for you
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