Before I talk about the GFG quilt, I want to thank everyone for their encouragement and advice on my little business venture. I got some great ideas from readers and a plan is now in shape. After Christmas I’ll start creating instructions for my kits and begin the process of cutting all those little pieces. I’m excited!
Steffi (Steffi’s Candy Quilts) and I are going to be posting our progress on the Nebraska Flower Garden quilt on Wednesdays. You can see that Steffi got a good start on her top last week (two stars and two flowers). Her blocks are so pretty, and I love her fussy-cut flower. I don’t have many opportunities for fussy cutting since I am usually working with little vintage pieces, but I just barely managed to do one.
A nice bonus on this top is the placement of the white path. All you have to do is add white hexagons around each individual flower and none on the stars. I don’t plan to put my top together until all the stars and flowers are finished, but I am going to start stitching the white hexes around the flowers. I don’t like having to sew all the path pieces at the end.
That is going to be oh, so pretty! Adding the white hexagons as you go is a great idea — keeps it from becoming too monotonous at the end!
Absolute perfection – the middle one is my favorite – gorgeous!!!!
I was going to say that the purple and yellow was my favorite, but the orange flowers are so pretty… and I love the blue one. They are all beautiful!
Three very beautiful flowers – I can´t say which one I like most. Your vintage fabrics are so lovely!
Oh yes, it is very nice that we only have to add the white pieces to the flowers. That makes it quite easy. And it is so much fun to sew the stars! I really love this setting!
I can’t wait to follow along on your progress. What a smashing quilt!
Martha, your flowers ars coming along so beautifully! The fussy cut orange flowers are adorable! The fabrics you are using make it so much fun!!
Hi. I have a quilt from my great grandmother in exactly this pattern, the flowers with the stars. Where did you get the pattern and do you know any of the history of the pattern?
Doing 2 flowers and 1 star a week is the kind of pace I like to do at one time! I think I am going to start in only I’m going to use Tula pink all free spirit at one time I think that will be very pretty I will also be working on homage to grandmothers flower garden and working on a couple wool appliqué.