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Back with a slow update on this English Paper Piecing Grandmother’s flower garden quilt project. I am so happy to report an update since I didn’t touch the project at all in 2024! Can’t believe that the year simply passes without me touching this project at all, not even basting any of the hexagons. O well what’s passed is passed. 

This project is on my list of projects I listed in my 2025 challenge plans HERE>  I would love to continue the momentum with this quilt all the way in 2025. Hoping to make a significant progress for this quilt. 

Grandmother’s Flower Garden Progress

My first post of this project was back here in this post where I share the free printable quotes. I still love seeing the quotes as I’m working with the hexagons. I made another full grandmother flower block. The one with a blue outer rounds. I am mixing in two different fabrics as I am running out of fabrics. The fabric is an old fabric line by Bonnie and Camille and surely are long out of prints. I did add a few more fabric from a different collection but mostly they are the fabric from the collection “Simple Abundance”.

The pattern is the English Paper Piecing Grandmother’s flower garden from the book “Handful of Scraps” by Edyta Sitar. There are so many great patterns in this book and I wish I could make them all. But if this project takes me 10 years, that can only mean I won’t have the capacity to do all the quilts in this book in my lifetime. LOL. But there are so many other projects in there that are not English paper piecing, so I may eventually get a few more quilts from the book. 

You can find out how to do the EPP stitches in this post of various stitches for EPP.

As of today, my stats for this quilt is:

29 of 32 hexagon flowers and 4 of 6 centre diamonds done. 

Collecting cream background fabrics

I am in the process of collecting some background fabrics – some of those from the civil war reproduction collections seems to match well, and I’m just collecting some of those on sale since it’ll be a while before I do get to it anyway. Usually I picked these fabrics from the YARDAGE SALE of at FQS >> Lots of fabrics on sale. Come check it out.

Keeping WIPs in project bags

While I do love making the vinyl front project bags, quilt projects calls for larger project bags, and I just love these It’s Sew Emma Mad for Plaid Project Bags! They’re big enough to fit lots of fabrics and they have boxy bottom so that it’ll stand up when you put it up. These are so durable and comes in many colours too. Just love it! FQS sent me these new colors and I’m already planning for some fall quilt projects to start and keep in them!

Linking to fun links parties: Slow Sunday Stitching

Till next time, Have a lovely stitch time! XOXO -Amira-


4 Comments

  1. Hexie quilts can take a long time to fashion. Your Grandmother Flower Quilt is going to be lovely. The flat-bottomed bag is a good idea for storing all the supplies needed.

  2. You don’t have many blocks left to make for this quilt! Keep stitching. This one needs to get to the finish line. It’s very pretty!

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