Not is this lifetime!

[lhayes1976]

I love Grandmother Flower Garden quilts and decided I would make one on my own. Well at the rate I'm going, I'm thinking I started this thing about 25 years too late. I've made three flowers and I know there is no way. I think I'll some pillows out of these. I am in complete awe of those you who have finished one of these. It must have taken a billion hours to finish. A big Hee Haw salute to you!

[Texsam]

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lol I just started doing hexagons using the English paper piecing method. I also started too late! Mine will be small projects.

[Sandy Navas]

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I have a Grandmother's Flower Garden (I think . . . ) that my Grandmother started. You make me want to get it out and see why she stopped working on it!!

[lindaw724472002]

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there is a tutorial on Kayewoodtv.com about piecing a Grandmothers flower garden she made it look so easy. I bet it really time consuming. They are beautiful. I believe they are over my head and patience. lol Linda

[Blondie]

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I have a book that has templates for the Grandmother flower garden that can be sewn in rows without the paper piecing. I have not tried it yet but makes it much easier I think. It is for a small project.
Book is:
Traditional Quilts to paper piece by Cori Derkson and Myra Harder

[rebeccas-sewing]

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I'm going to check this out, Blondie. I paper piece every now and then and I'm trying to imagine how that would work with the flower garden.

I have a book that has templates for the Grandmother flower garden that can be sewn in rows without the paper piecing. I have not tried it yet but makes it much easier I think. It is for a small project.
Book is:
Traditional Quilts to paper piece by Cori Derkson and Myra Harder

[rebeccas-sewing]

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On Eleanor Burns' list of videos she demonstrates how to make "Grandmother's Flower Garden" by using fusible interfacing and doing applique to apply it to the background square. Very clever and looks great! Talk about easy by comparison. The fusible interfacing can be purchased with the pattern printed onto it.

I have really enjoyed watching her videos and still have quite a few left to watch. Very informative and quite entertaining. She's a real character!

[Blondie]

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I did not know you could purchase the interfacing with the pattern already printed on. nice to know

[mamaquilt]

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On Eleanor Burns' list of videos she demonstrates how to make "Grandmother's Flower Garden" by using fusible interfacing and doing applique to apply it to the background square. Very clever and looks great! Talk about easy by comparison. The fusible interfacing can be purchased with the pattern printed onto it.

I have really enjoyed watching her videos and still have quite a few left to watch. Very informative and quite entertaining. She's a real character!

Thanks for sharing the eleanor Burns videos. Spent some time watching them and learned already so much.
greetings from Luxembourg

[Leigh]

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I picked up the girls Half hexagon ruler and thought I might do one that way. I know it is not exactly the same....but I am all about the easy these days. lol

[Shirley]

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I love them too! And the tut I saw on it made it look so easy. Maybe I will try something else

[kmaloley]

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I have a Grandmother's Flower Garden that my mother started working on in the 1960's. Talk about a long-term project. She gave up on it and gave it to me a long time ago. I used to take it with me to my stitching group when I needed some hand sewing. I bought fabric to add as a border. But I have had it packed away for years now. You might inspire me to get it out again. I love hand quilting, but hand sewing, not so much.

[lhayes1976]

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Leigh, I have that ruler too! That's probably as close as I'll come to making one too.

[debinmalaga]

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I'm so happy to have the Grandmother's Flower Garden my great-grandmother Lorena made, hanging in my kitchen. Inheritance was definitely the only way I'd get a full size GFG.

She also made a Double Wedding Ring that I'll inherit someday. She made them both during and after the depression and my mother tells me that she never sat down without some type of "hand work", usually crochet. I wonder how long it took someone that skilled to do in her "free time".

[Katherine Vickery Ringo]

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I started some on my cruise last week. Not sure what size it will end up being in the end but it is a fun travel project until I get sick of it.