Grandmothers Flower Garden finished
02-23-2015, 10:37 PM
#1
Junior Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2013
Posts: 215
Grandmothers Flower Garden finished
[ATTACH=CONFIG]511391[/ATTACH]This took me a year to hand piece and sew the top together. I took a break and thought about how I would quilt it and this took a few months. I decided that I would hand quilt it. I took it to a local sewing shop and rented a long arm machine to baste it together. I hand quilted around each of the flowers and the individual centers. I appliqued the edges to a plain border. I echo quilted 5 rows around the outer flowers for the border.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]511392[/ATTACH]
I decided that the corners should be rounded, this was my first time doing this and I made bias binding to go around the corners.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]511393[/ATTACH]
I had a mishap with a glass of red wine that spilled into the bag where the quilt was stored underneath my end table. The wine came out of the front of the quilt but there are still faint wine stains on the back. I think it will eventually come out, if it doesn't I will always remember the day the wine spilled.
I started this in March 2013 and finished in February 2015. If you are working on a large project, keep working bit by bit and one day it will be done.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]511394[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH=CONFIG]511392[/ATTACH]
I decided that the corners should be rounded, this was my first time doing this and I made bias binding to go around the corners.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]511393[/ATTACH]
I had a mishap with a glass of red wine that spilled into the bag where the quilt was stored underneath my end table. The wine came out of the front of the quilt but there are still faint wine stains on the back. I think it will eventually come out, if it doesn't I will always remember the day the wine spilled.
I started this in March 2013 and finished in February 2015. If you are working on a large project, keep working bit by bit and one day it will be done.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]511394[/ATTACH]
02-23-2015, 10:48 PM
#2
Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Sleepless South of Seattle
Posts: 374
I like it. Interesting way to put them together with the white flower between colored ones. I'm working on a GFG also although very slowly, I take it as handwork when I'm at conferences or other things I have to sit and wait. People ask me when I'm going to put them together or how big my quilt is going to be and I just answer when I'm tired of making the flowers I'll see how big it comes out. You've given me another way to lay them out.
02-23-2015, 11:51 PM
#5
Super Member
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: canterbury uk
Posts: 1,036
Such a pretty quilt, I love the fact that it is all hand done and what a good way of using up all those scraps of fabric. My quilt group have a speaker coming in for the second time and she specialises in hexagons. The last time she came I bought the papers to create a lone star, which I am still doing, I think hexagons will be the next one after seeing your beauty.
02-24-2015, 04:39 AM
#8
Power Poster
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Southern California
Posts: 19,131
I am delighted you were able to continue on after the wine spilled and get this finished. I still have my GFG store somewhere that took me a couple of years to piece by hand. I like the way you quilted it. I just know if I started hand quilting mine, I would never be able to finish it.
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
