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Buy Fonz and Porters book on scraps .Their use of squares is amazing.
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Kathy Tracy has a group=smallquilttalk where the groups dose quilts using CW fabrics. They are getting hexs' for the Oct small quilt so you could check that out too for ideas for all your CW squares.We've been making 1 quilt a month out of 1 of her 4 books.
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How about a Cathedral Window - all by hand. They're beautiful.
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I think I would go ahead and use them. I love the CW colors and think you might really like it once you're finished. You must like those colors to have them in the first place, right? Even thought most GFG's are in pastels or florals...this is your quilt. Do it your way. :)
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My MIL made a gorgeous GFG with black for the diagonal crossed paths, a fairly bright pink for the background, and all sorts of prints (including pieces of SIL old candy striper uniform) for the hexes in the flowers. The quilt survived nearly 30 years of constant use, although it had gotten too threadbare to use, but was lost when our house burned in 2000. That's probably what happened to the pictures too.
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Originally Posted by ptquilts
(Post 5313520)
Here is one we made with scrappy squares. We used solids to make the "paths" that go through diagonally. I am drooling at the thought of all your CW fabrics, yum!
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Robin, I promise the quilt police will not come to your house! Go ahead and make that quilt as you planned - it'll be wonderful!! And please post a photo of your progress along the way!!
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I'm a Civil war fabric fanatic and think it would be beautiful!!! I think any quilt with Civil war fabric is stunning though.
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Originally Posted by DebraK
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That is what I was thinking!!! |
ok, my question is, "How do you make a GFG from squares?" I thought they are cut from hexigons.
Marge
Originally Posted by rrhaigh
(Post 5313465)
I cut out around 1,500 squares 2.5" to make grandmothers flower garden quilt - I was feeling very ambitious. My mistake, I think, is I used Civil War fabrics in reds, blues, greens, golds, tans, browns and a civil war yellow for the center. I have a creamy/goldish muslin for the paths (not cut out yet). Now I am thinking it will be too dark for a grandmothers flower garden quilt and think I should do something else with all these 2.5" cut out squares.
Any suggestions or pattern ideas to use up the 2.5" squares would be greatly appreciated!!! Or, if you have seen or made a grandmothers flower garden quilt out of Civil War fabrics, please let me know your opinion on how it looks with that type of fabric. I am worried to put that much work into it and not like it. |
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