Monday, May 16, 2011

Grandmother's Flower Garden

While I work on piecing the top of my "Crumb Patch" quilt, I thought I would share with you one of the other projects I am working on.  I really wanted to try a hand pieced quilt and was reading about GFG quilts on various blogs.  I was hooked!  I started the quilt in July 2010 and worked on it regularly.  Of course, I wanted a scrappy feel.

I started by going through my stash and picking medium tones.  After I paired what I had, I bought a few fat quarters to even things out.  Most of this quilt came from stash.  I bought the stepping stone neutral and the outer purple.  I used 1.5" hexagons and cut them all outmyself.  Would I do that again?  I would like to think not.  It is nearly impossible to keep them perfectly uniform.  When I start the next one (yes there will be a next one!) I will buy the hexagons and save myself hours of work!


This was a picture taken in January 2011.  I have it about 60% hand quilted.  I work on that during my Idol nights.  The quilt is about full sized.


Here is my view behind the quilting.  I borrowed a Hinterburg  frame from a friend.  I didnt like using the hoop.  I couldnt reach anything even after adjusting.  It still is very useful to me if I drape the quilt over the hoop (the weight of the quilt holds itself taut enough for me).

Some closeup pictures of the quilting.

5 comments:

  1. What an awesome quilt! And hand quilted too...yum!!

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  2. First off welcome to the quilt blog world. I'm fairly new at it myself. I love the hexagon quilt. I have wanted to make one for sometime now but have never taken the plunge.

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  3. Hi Natasha! I found your blog through JulieKQuilts - love what I see :) I have a GFG to work on too - my grandma pieced the entire top by hand but some of the little hexies have come loose! It's a little intimidating just looking at it and knowing what a tedious process it will be to go over (I don't even know how many) all of them to make sure that they're secure - but what a great family treasure, yes? Bravo on joining bloggy-ville!!! Best wishes to you!

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  4. Hi Lovely to stumble onto your blog (from Julie Q) I LOVE scrap quilts so looking forward to seeing all your quilts.
    Love Leanne

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  5. LOVE it!!! I need to get mine done.

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