Contrary to my original plan, I decided to start sewing the stars and flowers together as I finish them. I thought I would want to lay out all the blocks at the end, but found that I was itching to sew them together. Honestly, I think with these sort of very scrappy quilts, it really…
Category: WIPs
Grandmother’s Flower Garden Star Quilt – Week 3
Only stars to show this week — I seem to alternate between stars and flowers. Hop over and see Steffi’s pretty star and 2 flowers, one of which is fussy cut. Originally I was going to make all my flowers and stars with a yellow center. However, I really wanted to use some yellow print…
Grandmother’s Flower Garden Star Quilt — Week 2
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….
Grandmother’s Flower Garden Star Quilt-a-Long
My friend, Steffi (Steffi’s Candy Quilts), and I are starting a quilt-a-long to make this amazing vintage Grandmother’s Flower Garden quilt that Steffi found on nebraskahistory.org. Steffi, who lives in Germany, is making her quilt with new fabrics, and I am making mine with vintage fabrics. Of course, we want to extend an invitation to…
Holly Hobbie Quilt Tops for Twin Baby Girls
The little twin quilt tops were stitched up pretty quickly since I was able to use speed piecing. I am not usually able to avail myself of these time-saving techniques since I am normally working with small scraps of vintage fabric. The process for making 4 Flying Geese was new to me — whoever figured…
Baby Quilts for Twin Girls – WIP
Our wonderful music teacher, Pam, is pregnant with twin girls. Although I’ve made lots of baby quilts for teachers at school and family members, these are my very first twins. Pam and her husband are both music teachers, so when their son Collin was born, I wanted to use a music theme for his quilt….
String Star Quilt Top
This top was made with a box full of quilt scraps from the 1940s and 50s. All of the pieces were 1 1/2″ wide in varying lengths, but none longer than about 15″. I thought perhaps the quilter had planned to make a log cabin quilt, but most of the color values were the same….
Strippy 4-Patch Quilt Top
This is the second quilt I am making from an antique one-patch top that I took apart — here is the first one. The four-patches are from the antique top, the setting triangles are a combination of antique and vintage scraps, plus some new fabrics. The vertical sashing is a reproduction print. This is another…
Grandmother’s Flower Garden Doll Quilt Top
The top is done and I think it looks pretty cute. There are puckers in some of the white path pieces, but I can live with that. It’s tricky sewing the rows together since the pieces are so tiny — the flowers were easier to stitch. I wasn’t going to post a photo of this…
9-Patch and Snowball #2
When I read Ann Champion’s post about her scrappy Antique One Patch, I told her I would take it apart and remake it. It reminded me of a quilt top I purchased that was very similar — 1 1/2″ squares with the same types of fabrics (indigo, shirting, homespun, mourning), random placement and rather crude…
Cactus Basket Quilt Top
Most of the blocks in this quilt were purchased on ebay, and I made an additional 20 blocks to complete the top. The fabrics are all vintage 1930s dress percales in typical colors and floral prints. The neatest thing about this quilt, in my opinion, is the careful fussy cutting on many of the floral…
Grandmother’s Flower Garden Process and a Gift
Steffi at Steffi’s Candy Quilts just mentioned on her blog that she has discovered a better way of sewing hexagons which she is going to reveal in her next post. I thought I would show a little bit of my process so we could compare. We both use a running stitch method (as opposed to…
Grandmother’s Flower Garden Doll Quilt – WIP
Here’s a project I started a few days ago. This little quilt was inspired by an unbelievably tiny GFG doll quilt made by Steffi at Steffi’s Candy Quilts. I couldn’t imagine making a quilt that small, but I really wanted to try it — my hexagons are about 1/2″ wide. The quilt is 21″ long…
A Wedding
My daughter, Emily, and her boyfriend, Aaron, are engaged to be married, which is not exactly a surprise since they have been together since high school. Aaron is just like a member of our family already, and we are so happy to make it official. Although the wedding is not until next summer, Emily and…
Ladies Art Quilt Block #38 – Rose Album
Although this block doesn’t have nearly as many pieces as some of the other indigo blocks, it was probably the most difficult to stitch. I hand pieced most of the block, but the small domed muslin pieces around the center section were hand pieced (on the sides) and appliqued (around the top). It just seemed…