Originally Posted by Honey
I am looking ahead to winter (just for a minute). I want to paper piece a Grandmothers Flower Garden as my winters project. I really feel compelled to do this. Maybe because years ago my Grammy said that back in the day, you weren't consindered a real quilter until you made one. Is there a way to cut all of those hexigons without tracing and cutting all of them individually? Also, what is the best size hexigon to use for this. I would like to have at least 12" blocks when I am done. It is going to be a queen sized quilt when I am finished (maybe 10 years from now :oops: ) Seriously, I do want to get it done this winter. That is why I am starting the prep work now. If anyone has any other suggestions, I would really appreciate any help I can get. Thanks so much :thumbup: Sorry admin, this should have been in main, but don't know how to move it.
It's ironic you're asking about this today. This morn. I watched Eleanor Burns on TV working on this very quilt. Instead of the little paper pieced pcs. she used drawings in the shape of ea. layer. Had a lg. one, med. one, & a sm. center one. She put fusible web on ea. one with the fusible facing the right side of the fabric. She then made a sm. slit in the fus. web & turned it inside out. She positioned the 3 layers together on the precut 12" block then ironed them down. She said you could stitch up ea. section to give it more dimension. So much easier than I thought it would be. It's the only way I'd ever make one after seeing that show.
I think it's in her Egg Money Quilt book.