Done!!!

Well... almost. It still needs to be quilt and bound!

I finished adding the last block to my GFG Wednesday night!!! Woohoo!!! It still needs a good pressing.

I started piecing this in 1991. All hand pieced! I think I finished making blocks in 2000 or 2001. 

No... I did not work on it non stop. It would get put away or set aside for periods of time. A couple months ago I decided to finish putting it together!

Now to find time to quilt it!

All hand pieced... no papers were use or harmed in the process! LOL!!

One More

I only have 1 more row to go!!!

Grandmother's Flower Garden

No... I haven't fallen off the face of the earth! LOL!!! June has been super busy with business opening up again and travel restriction being a little more relaxed. I've spent most of June traveling. Doing machine repairs. Installing new stitch regulators and setting up new machines! Busy, busy, busy!!!

I have gotten a little more done on my GFG....

 

After this row I only have 1 more to go!!!  The hard part will be deciding how to quilt it!

GFG Update

I'm still working on my hand pieced GFG.... 4 rows done with only 2 more to go!! Yay!!!

 

 I started putting the green hexies across the top for a change in pace.... and I don't know exactly what happened with the flower at the bottom, but I ended up with 3 green hexies not where I meant for them to be. This will make it interesting while attaching the next row! LOL

New Breaks

What do you do while you're waiting for new breaks to be put on your car?

Grandmother's Flower Garden

GFG (Grandmother's Flower Garden) is growing...  Slowly! LOL

 

The thought of adding all those green hexies one at a time sounded like torture so I'm basically adding one at a time between the two row. It's much easier than it sounds....

 

I start at the upper left corner and work my way around the hexie...

 

Ending at the bottom left corner...

 

Works for me... and I don't get board! LOL!

 

 

 

Grandmother's Flower Garden

I've resurrected my Grandmother's Flower Garden that I started in 1991 or 92. It's been aging for a long time!!!

At one point I laid them all out in how I wanted them and pined them to this piece of batting... I have no idea when that was. Maybe around 1996 or 97. The thought of cutting out all the green hexies to make the garden path was a overwhelming idea. LOL It got folded up and put away for later and that's where it's been every since!

I good friend of mine pulled her project out and shared pictures of what she was doing. It made me get mine out to work on also!

This has been folded up and in storage for so long the blocks are full of dust and what have ya! Makes my face burn and itch!!! I decided to soak the blocks one row at a time so I don't get them mixed up...

It's amazing how dirty the soak water is!!!

Do you have any idea how many green hexagons I need? A lot!!! If I figured right I need 564!!!

I'm marking and cutting only a row or two at a time... as not to get overwhelmed by the task!

 

I'm taking lot of pictures as I take my blocks off the batting to soak so I can remember how to lay them back out!

One row done... and starting on the second!

 

This is going to take awhile!!!  LOL These are hand pieced. Not English Paper Pieced...

To quilt or not to quilt... NOT

This is only the 2nd time in 10 years that I decided to refuse a quilt....

Right before Christmas I was at the LQS when the shop owner gave me a quilt that a customer dropped of to be quilted. ( I don't like that... I want to meet with the customer during drop off!) Anyway, I laid it out this week to see what needed to be done. This is a vintage Grandmother's Flower Garden that I believed that she inherited...

OMG!!! I've seen some fullness, but this was just too much! So I call the customer and explained that it had some issues and that I'd like to meet with her to show her what needs to be done before this top could be quilted. Also to talk about the cost if she wanted me to do take it apart to fix the problem areas. (this is why I like to meet with a customer during the drop off...)

We met yesterday... I found out that she got the top at the Goodwill. She's not a quilter, but liked the top. After showing her the problem areas she has decided to donated it to her church group... maybe those ladies would be willing to fix it and hand quilt it for a raffle.









I do really like the magenta pathway... it's one of my favorite colors. My toenail polish matches it perfect!