Carol J.

I did a paper pieced Grandmother's Garden quilt for years, it was always ready to go so when a trip was planned, the container and all I needed were in hand. I have to put the last motif in mine and then quilt it. I used the index card patterns over and over, had the pieces cut out and stitched away in the back seat like a queen. My husband and usually a son did all the driving so I stitched and was the back seat driver. Be sure to take something along to do.

Carol J.

malfromcessnock

Wow! Connie, how did they do that? It's stunning!

LLWinston44

I guess I could take four squares at a time! I actually had thought to do GFG, but the cathedral windows excite me a little bit more. I think I'll start one of each just to see which I'll prefer. Lol
What stitch is used to do the piecing????

LLWinston44

Oh, and here's the CW tute I liked. A bit bigger than the above picture.

http://hyena-in-petticoats.blogspot....-tutorial.html

Dena789

This tute isn't too bad except they don't have you sewing the base in any way, just folding and ironing. I sewed each of my base pieces first by whip stitching the edges together then folding the corners to the center and pressing. To me, it just seems more secure and it's much easier to maintain accurate squares for joining.

Here's a couple pictures of mine.

malfromcessnock

That's a lovely quilt Dena789 - I'd love to give that a go.

Have you got a pattern or a tutorial you can direct me to?

malfromcessnock

Dena789 - I've compared the images of the two quilts; yours and the one in the tut Kim posted the url for.

You have treated the "windows" differently to the tut and I like your's much more. Hers appears to have solid "centres" (Australian spelling).

[img]http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1116/...7d044b9f_o.jpg[/img]

So if you can direct me to a tutorial or give me any tips, I'd really appreciate it!

Dena789

I taught this technique at a few quilt shops but my only instructions that I have are not on the computer that I can find. I will have to go searching to see if I can find a folder with my instructions. My only problem is that teaching this has always been more of a `hands on`thing for me. I would need to take a fair bit of time to create a new tutorial showing what I do. I`m not opposed to doing that, it is just that it may take some time to complete.

By the way, we spell centre the same way in Canada!

LLWinston44

I think that in the tute, she just hadn't finished all the middles. I believe her intention is to fill them them all in, as is traditional in CW.

I tried one today and LOVED it!! I want to rush out and get the white to get started!!

http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-151497-1.htm

malfromcessnock

Thanks Kim, I'll look at it again. But I thought she finished the tutorial with that image and there was no other page. I may have missed something.
But the quilt Dena789 posted looks so much nicer. Sort of like a cover of lovely posies.

Dena789, don't go going to any trouble only on my behalf. I'm sure someone else will post something sooner of later. A Canadian lady eh? Love to go there - always had a "thing" for Canada and New Zealand but never traveled out of Australia and it doesn't look like I will be anytime soon either.