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English Paper Piecing Grandmother’s Flower Garden Progress

January 12, 2025 13 Comments

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.

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More Progress : Grandmother’s Flower Garden English Paper Piecing

September 2, 2023 6 Comments

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.

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In Progress : Grandmother’s Flower Garden English Paper Piecing

March 20, 2019 4 Comments

A slow but a moving one for sure.

I have made some progress on grandmother’s flower garden.

It just crossed my mind that this might be done when I am a grandmother myself. Haha.

I don’t mind the slow progress, I love the process itself already.

That’s the fun thing about crafting or quilting. The process itself is already worth the effort.

I shall be updating from time to time to make a record on the progress of this quilt.

So here are some progress photos for today:

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Sunday Slow Stitching #05

June 24, 2018 5 Comments

Welcome to the series of my slow stitching projects documentation.

Basically, I wanted to document the slow progress of my hand-stitched projects on a weekly/forthnightly basis for a couple of reasons:

I wanted to make myself accountable and make sure I do sit and enjoy hand-stitching at least one session per week.
Documenting progress is always something I love to do. In fact, that is why this blog started anyway.
To create excitement even with little progress. Small progress does matter!
I hope I can inspire you to do the same too. So share your slow stitching projects you’re working on too in the comments.

For this week, what has been growing?

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Sunday Slow Stitching #04 : The start of Kingfisher Quilt

June 3, 2018 4 Comments

Welcome to the series of my slow stitching projects documentation.

Basically, I wanted to document the slow progress of my hand-stitched projects on a weekly/forthnightly basis for a couple of reasons:

I wanted to make myself accountable and make sure I do sit and enjoy hand-stitching at least one session per week.
Documenting progress is always something I love to do. In fact, that is why this blog started anyway.
To create excitement even with little progress. Small progress does matter!
I hope I can inspire you to do the same too. So share your slow stitching projects you’re working on too in the comments.

For this week, what has been growing?

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Sunday Slow Stitching #03

May 20, 2018 2 Comments

Welcome to the series of my slow stitching projects documentation.

Basically, I wanted to document the slow progress of my hand-stitched projects on a weekly/bi-weekly basis for a couple of reasons:

I wanted to make myself accountable and make sure I do sit and enjoy hand-stitching at least one session per week.
Documenting progress is always something I love to do. In fact, that is why this blog started anyway.
To create excitement even with little progress. Small progress does matter!
I hope I can inspire you to do the same too. So share your slow stitching projects you’re working on too in the comments.

For this week, what has been growing?

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Sunday Slow Stitching #02 + Giveaway

May 13, 2018 12 Comments

Welcome to the 2nd posts of my slow stitching projects documentation.

Basically, I wanted to document the slow progress of my hand-stitched projects on a weekly/bi-weekly basis for a couple of reasons:

I wanted to make myself accountable and make sure I do sit and enjoy hand-stitching at least one session per week.
Documenting progress is always something I love to do. In fact, that is why this blog started anyway.
To create excitement even with little progress. Small progress does matter!
I hope I can inspire you to do the same too. So share your slow stitching projects you’re working on too in the comments.

For this week, what has been growing?

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Sunday Slow Stitching #01 + Giveaway

May 6, 2018 2 Comments

Welcome to the first series of my slow stitching projects documentation.

Basically, I wanted to document the slow progress of my hand-stitched projects on a weekly/bi-weekly basis for a couple of reasons:

I wanted to make myself accountable and make sure I do sit and enjoy hand-stitching at least one session per week.
Documenting progress is always something I love to do. In fact, that is why this blog started anyway.
To create excitement even with little progress. Small progress does matter!
I hope I can inspire you to do the same too. And that’s why I put a linky party at the end of this post where you can share your slow-stitching projects too. And to spark it up, I have a giveaway to start this party!

For this week, what has been growing?

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5 ways to stitch shapes together using English Paper Piecing method

October 24, 2017 9 Comments

I’d like to share with you in this post some of the ways that you can stitch together your basted English Paper Piecing blocks. Be it hexagons, diamonds or even square or any shape possible really :).

This is following the series of English Paper Piecing Technique I have previously on the blog:

5 Ways How to Baste English Paper Piecing Templates

How to Cut English Paper Piecing Printable Templates

I’d like to share with you in this post some of the ways that you can stitch together your basted English Paper Piecing blocks. Be it hexagons, diamonds or even square or any shape possible really 🙂

Yes, EPP isn’t limited to the conventional shape. Check out these awesome EPP projects with non-common shapes if you are into diving in EPP adventures.

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How to Cut English Paper Piecing Templates

July 21, 2017 3 Comments

Now, there is a couple of options for you to get english paper piecing templates and today I am sharing with you, one of the most accessible ways to prep them is to cut them by yourself.

I designed the templates on the computer so that it is rotary cut friendly, print them out and cut them using the rotary cutter.

You can choose a couple of different size hexagon templates in TLMC resource library. Sign up here if you haven’t yet.

I find that this is the easiest way for me to get quick templates and easy for me to keep adding more if I need them.

However, there are other ways to cut these templates yourself and you might find yourself loving one method more than the other. Of course, each technique will have its own advantages and disadvantages. Let me walk you through some of them.

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