Thread: My Grandmother's Flower Garden

Now some of you might have seen some of these flowers before, but I had it under something different, so this thread is going to be entirely devoted to this quilt's progress. My goal is to have it done by the time I graduate college, which leaves me 4 years to piece, quilt and bind it. Today I finished cutting all the flowers and leaves, I don't have the white muslin yet for the paths.

my big flowers that are done

my 2 little flowers that are done so far

stack of big flowers pinned in groups and the pile of the one I'm currently working on

the stack of little flowers (1 ring)

and all the green hexis, that's right, all 480 of them plus 5 extra so I can switch one out if I want to

and my pattern, but not specifically this layout

its going to be beautiful looking forward to see the progress of this

Awesome

It going to be beautiful and your off to a great start. Can't wait to see each step as you go.

This is a beautiful project you have going...I love the grandma's flower garden pattern...takes a lot of patience to make it...

One of my favorite patterns...I don't think I can wait 4 years though. lol :)

That is going to be beautiful. I am half way through mine and it has taken a year. Just working on it when visiting my dad in the evenings and waiting for appointments.

oh, major good luck to you! i started mine when my children were in high school and thought for sure i'd have it done before i became a granny - no problem. 13 years later . . . now for sure i'll have it done before i'm a great-granny, right? lots and lots of hand sewing. that part is done, still working on hand quilting, occasionally!!!

thanks guys! and it's going to be a queen sized quilt as I want to do at least one of them in my lifetime, so I figured I'd do my favorite pattern. The finished hexi side is 1 9/16 (was aiming for about 1 1/2, but oh well!) so 1 flower is quite large and it doesn't take too many flowers to finish a row, which is good, because if they were the traditional 1 inch hexis, I would never get it done!

This was started because it was hot out and the sewing area was too hot to work in so I figured this would just be something to work on while it's too hot in my room, but I'm hooked and can't stop sewing these together!

It will be pretty when finished.