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. 

Another update on my slow work in progress, the Grandmother’s flower garden. 

Every time I pick up this project, I would span it out and adore it. Please don’t mind me as I admire the progress of this project. Not that my stitches are perfect, but just admiring how the flowers are blooming one over another, hexagon by hexagons. Little stitches at a time. 

I am also seeing some flaws here and there, seeing my work progress over the years. Yes YEARS. this has been a 6 year project in progress. 

My first post of this project was back here in this post where I share the free printable quotes. The post dated back in 2017. Well, I will try and make it a less than 10-year project, but we’ll see. I love working on the project, it is just that I am always torn with tons of things to do while watching TV, like laundries and other hand projects like cross-stitching. But we’ll see and I’ll try to work on it a little more in the last quarter of this year and maybe at least I’ll get all the diamonds and flowers done before moving onto the 530 hexagons for the background.