I started this quilt when I was 19!! Finished it when I was 35!!

Its completely hand pieced over paper and hand quilted!

It would not have taken me that long but it was in a bag for years - sometimes 4 or 5 years before I worked on it and then I would blast at it.....

I am now making another one for my Best Friend - she had been married for 10 years when I finished this one and we joked that if I started right away I should just mange to get it done for her Silver Wedding!!! I'm on target - and have another 9 years!!!

That is beautiful. I love the colors.

What do you mean "hand pieced over paper"? It almost looks like a yo-yo.

Love it! Excellent work. Is your current project like this one too? I have so much respect for anyone who tackles this type of quilt. Perhaps its my inexperience, but this just looks so hard.

WOW.. well at least you finished it!!!! LOL GREAT JOB!

Your quilt is beautiful. You do great work.

Oh my, what an undertaking!! It is just beautiful! :thumbup:

I think its english paper-pieced grandmother's garden. beautiful

Your colors are gorgeous, that is just beautiful!

Very pretty. Excellent work!

Beautiful!! What patience you have!

This is a fantastic quilt with a story that makes it an heirloom already! O.K., I know that the official dating of a quilt is when its finished, but the times you took it out and worked on it make it special to you. It would be nice to write that all down now and keep it with the quilt.

Thats right - it is paper pieced, granmothers flower garden (ish) true Grandmothers Flower garden has paths between the 'rossettes' (I believe!!) the next one I am working on is a true GFG!

So - I tack (baste) the fabric shapes over an exact hexagon shaped piece of paper then when I have enough for a 'rossette' I stich them together by tiny oversewing stitches on each seam. I find it very relaxing - great for taking with me on journeys and to waiting rooms etc....

I made my frst quilt top using this technique when I was 9!!! This one took me from age 18 - to 35 the next one will take me form about 35 to maybe 45.......

I made dozens of cushions too - over the years and a few baby cot quilts!!

Beautiful! You do marvelous work.

beautiful. i love english paper piecing! i made a few table runners this last year for christmas presents, so i know how time consuming this project was!!

So very pretty. I don't think I would've had the perserverence to see it through. Good job! :thumbup:

Thanks everyone!! This quilt will always be special to me - it has some special fabrics in it - one, the very dark green that REALLY shouldn't be there! Was given to me by a lady of 80 (she is 80 now!) it was in her Tennis skirt that she used to wear in the 1940's!! and others are from clothes my Mother made me as a child - others given to me by friends some now gone before us. I enjoyed working out the corners with my Husabnd not long after we met - he was hooked by then!!

Many Many Memories.

Unfortunately - It has really suffered on the bed for the last 6 years and is rather tatty already!! I am working on a new quilt (picture as soon as I have it quilted) which is to replace it and I will pension it off somewhere safe then...

I just learned this techneque at our Guild last month. It is fun and I believe the thing that actually takes the longest is cutting out all those little hexagones. Great job! I love your quilt...

I'm working on one also, I completely understand that it is a life project. Your work is so beautiful and I FULLY appreciate the labor of love.

Beautiful does not say enough about your quilt. A real treasure in this quilt. I would never have the patience to even start one. Keep up the great work.
Ireland is on my list of places to visit. Irish descent on my dad's side of the family.

gorgeous :thumbup: :thumbup:

What a treasure...It is beautiful!

What a gorgeous quilt!! :D

wow, I don't know how you kept yourself going on it all those years, but perhaps, bc of the different fabrics from different ppl. very pretty and look so well pieced :-D

Very pretty.

Breathtaking!! Sew much work and a great end result!!! Very pretty design and colors!

So very, very beautiful. I would love to see how you do the rosettes. I love the colors. Jackie, South Dakota, USA

This QB is so awesome. To be able to see someones work from across the ocean, we truly are a united people when it comes to some things aren't we?

You have a lot of "stick to it" Job well done!! :thumbup:

Ditter

Gorgeous :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

That is absolutely beautiful!

Stunning!! You do great work

OMG that is gorgeous!

very pretty. I am always in awh of quilters who can do a bed size GFG quilt. Your workmanship and color choices are wonderful.

They weren't really 'colour choices!!!' I just used what I had - realised I had a lot of green and pink and it became a theme then!!!

But I really appreciate the kind words!!!

Your beautiful quilt is a great lesson for me in patience. I'm at the early stage of quilting where I look for a pattern that I can finish in 1 or 2 months. Sewing hundreds of hexagons together by hand would overwhelm me, but I love dreaming about doing it! Gives me a feeling of peace - as if I'm in it for the long haul. Thanks for sharing your quilt; it's an inspiration.

Congrats it came out beautiful.

What a stunning quilt! I am an avid english paper piecer, working on my 3rd GFG, but none of them compare with yours. It's beautiful.

Phyllis

I think it is OK to take years to finish a project - sometimes I would only get the quilt out and make half a dozen rossettes - maybe a week - or two.

One thing I am doing with this next one is I picked out the coulourways for a few rossettes at a time and bagged them up with the cut papers in small food bags - then I could grab one or two for long train journeys Or (when I worked in a commercial setting) business trips with nights in hotels. etc.

Works for me!

Very pretty!
Quite an accomplishment after that long!

May I ask what size hexagon papers you use? I have only used 1 inch. Would like to try maybe 1.5. Think it may look "clunky" I'll have to try it. Thank you. Phyllis