Originally Posted by abdconsultant
My mother has always been busy working full time as a registered nurse until she was 70 years old, She has a fragile heart and rhumatoid arthritis. She wants to sew but can't sit in a chair and lean over her machine , so I thought I would give her a little project to do, english paper piece hexagons. I gave her some scraps and look........... this is just a few of her shoe boxes full of these flowers. She want me to finish them into a quilt { before she goes to the other side} I don't even know where to start. I might add, everyone of them is dang near perfect!
Make a beautiful pillow out of the silk one first - It is better not to mix it with the cottons...maybe add lace over another shade of green silk?
Then sort the others into all cotton color families - like all greens. or blues plain and prints of darks and lights, or reds and oranges together.
This will make a color harmony for each family, so count them, and put them on the white bedspread, to see if you like it.
Once you have the color familes, you can explore other
combinations...
Then ask a more experienced quilter to help you and your mom.