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!
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Till next time, Have a lovely stitch time! XOXO -Amira-
13 Comments
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.
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!
Thank you for cheering me on! I will continue to work on it. New spirit and I am really excited for this quilt to finish. Hopefully won’t be too long
Your fabrics are GORGEOUS. Beautiful work!
Thank you Kathy, it wasn’t my usual colours, but I’m falling in love more and more with these reproduction colours
The hexie flowers are so pretty! Keep stitching and the quilt will be finished, happy stitching!
Thank you Gretchen. I need those cheers! It is still a long way, I am going to have to keep my motivation up and keep stitching!
Coming to you from Slow Sunday Stitching – Hi! What a great post to read to motivate me as I am now committing to making a GFG. I’d accumulated about 50 flowers, but really had not determined how I would proceed. I’ve got a real hankering to make a diamond shaped block – not a whole quilt, probably – your efforts here are really getting my juices going. Good luck and happy stitching!
Such a beauty! Glad you are working on it again. You can do this!
Slow stitching is wonderful! I did some when I had foot surgery and also when my ankle replacement surgery!
I have no project in mind but planning to pick up a pattern next week……..then gathering fabrics, that’s the most fun!
Good to see you are getting some time to get back ! Enjoy!
Your quilt it absolutely beautiful. Amazing in every way!
I enjoy doing English paper quilting, I find it relaxing, I’m not fast doing it,
I sew while waiting to pick up my grandson and his friends from school
I’m doing Crosses block of the month from 2021 I started this last August.
You are doing a lovely job. I love seeing the progress. Keep it up. It will be finished before you know it. So inspiring