Vintage Grandmother's Flower Garden

These are truly vintage Grandmother's Flower Garden blocks.  I received these blocks from Jeff's aunt a month or so ago while we were visiting.  She picked the bag up at an auction some time ago and didn't know what to do with them.

Of course, I couldn't resist saying, "I can figure out something to do with them!"

She gave them to me.  I'm so excited!  I can honestly say that I have never seen any of these fabrics before, so I'm not sure how old they really are.  I love vintage fabric and vintage quilts!

There are 22 blocks that are assembled and a stack of pieces that I didn't count.  I pressed all of them and took these pictures.

As soon as I finish my current hexie project, I'm going to start on the leftover pieces and see how large a pieced project I can end up with.  If I remember right, they are 2-1/2" hexies, I don't remember for sure.

I'm thinking I may put some unbleached muslin hexies with them to surround the existing blocks and finish it up somehow to come out with a rectangular quilt when I finish it.

Looks like I need to get some closer pics of the blocks and pieces.  I'll keep you posted with my progress and we'll see where it takes me.

And there are also so bonus miscellaneous blocks that she gave me as well.  I put them away for the time being in a cardboard box for safe keeping until I can do something with them.  It's like a treasure hunt!  And you never know where you'll end up!

Do you have some surprise fabric pieces hiding somewhere waiting on you?  I would love to see!.

Happy Quilting!
Glenda

Red and White Quilt

Ok,, so you know I've posted about the blocks I've been working on for a Red and White quilt.  This is a request from my quilt guild for the June Quilt Show for 2016.  They want to do a display for the show with all of the display in red and white quilts.  It will look fabulous.

My issue is this.....I have been dwelling on what pattern/patterns to do.  How I want to lay them out.  I've been googling red and white quilts, looking in magazines, everywhere I could think of to get inspiration and ideas.  After months of this, I finally decided on a design using 3 different blocks, cornerstones and sashing.  You see two of the blocks here in these pictures I have posted in some past blogs.  I am deep in the construction stage of my red and white quilt, with only 9 blocks to go before I start to work on putting the sashing, cornerstones and blocks together.

So, let's see if this has happened to you?

In the last week or so, I start getting in the mail, magazines featuring what?  Red and white quilts, of course!  Today, I get an email with red and white fabric choices it in.  Geesh!  lol

In one magazine I got, there were, not one, not two, but three double pages of red and white quilts!  So, NOW you show me inspiration!  TOO LATE NOW!  Lol.....  Not only that, but I have gotten magazines and emails with red and white combinations of fabric lines as well as more featuring red and white quilts.  They just keep coming and coming, continuing to taunt me.  Now, I don't need any inspiration for my quilt.  I got it figured out already.  Stop with the red and white inspiration.....I GOT IT!  Really, all in fun, but has this ever happened to you?  Have you ever tried to get some inspiration only to find nothing?  Then when you finally get it figured out, then comes the inspirational ideas, pictures, magazines, emails, etc?  I can only laugh.

Funny how that happens.  Anyway, I've been working on some customer quilts and haven't been back to working on those last blocks, so nothing more to show you on the red and white quilt yet.

Just where is this year getting off to?  Seems like it was just turning spring the other day, now we are looking at winter just around the corner.

I hope you are having fun on your newest project.  Share it here!  I would love to see it!

Happy Quilting!

Glenda

More flower gardens and quilt blocks!

I finally remembered to add some pictures of our flower beds in the back yard.  They have filled in nicely this year.  Jeff is still working on the path around the half circle flower bed just off the patio.  It's getting there.  The one  in the top picture is a new one.  I built that one about a month ago.  We put a Huckleberry bush (I think it's huckleberry) at the back and some hostas in the front.  One of them has bloomed.  What a surprise!

This week we have been Grand Dog sitting for Richard while he is having fun in Utah.  I think we broke them.  Ha, ha, ha, ha.....Don't let this picture deceive you, they are definitely a hand full.  We love having them around and don't they look so innocent in the picture of them sleeping.

Lucy doesn't much like them in her domain, but she is getting along well with Kirk and tolerating Nyota.  I think Nyota is just too rambunctious for Lucy.  They are playing a bit, but Lucy is very guarded when Nyota is nearby.

Jeff had baked fresh banana bread yesterday and one of them, we won't mention any names, got into the banana bread and helped themselves.  Lol......

This top picture shows the block I was working on over the weekend.  It is called Kansas Troubles.  They will go with the block I showed you last week below.  The Kansas Troubles block I will need 14 blocks.  There are a lot of pieces in this block.  I did manage to get 5 blocks completed.  Only 9 more to go!

As you can see, I have my 1-1/2" scrap pieces in the tub in the top left to put together for leaders and enders.  Amazing how much you can get done on another project while working on a different one using the leader and enders system taught by Bonnie Hunter.

I will keep you updated on my project as I go.  This is not going to be a quick quilt project.  Onward we go!

 

There is a lot of love in each and every quilt made.  

Hope you all had a good and productive weekend!  

Keep on quilting!

Glenda

Tulips? Turkey Feet? or Cross and Crown?

This week I am working on a red and white quilt for our quilt guild show in June 2016.

This block is called Cross and Crown from the book I got this block from.  I understand it is also called Tulips and Turkey Feet.  I think it kind of looks like Tulips to me.

I have 22 blocks cut out and ready to sit and sew.  And sit and sew I did this past weekend.  Sunday late afternoon I finished the last 5.  And, of course, I didn't get more pictures.

I am adding 2 other blocks for this quilt.  One that I have already done the 6 blocks for it is the Churn Dash block.  They are complete and in my project box.

Next, I will need 14 Kansas Troubles blocks.  I started with a sample block last night, but didn't like the way it ended up.  I should have a 9-1/2" block for a finished 9" block.  My block came out to almost 9-1/4".  Not quite big enough.  I will need to make some adjustments to my 1/4" seam allowance.  Probably as little as doing a scant 1/4".  I will post more about the progress of this quilt later this week.

What projects are you working on today?  Share them here, I would love to see your works! 

Have a happy quilting week!

Glenda