Here’s a picture of the progress I’m making on my new quilt:
This quilt is made from the vintage quilt my grandma gave me about a year ago. The flowers were already pieced. I’m appliqueing them onto 12 inch blocks. So far 11 are finished! There are 30 total. Half will be on off-white squares, and half on white squares, and I’m planning on a colored sashing between the blocks (robin’s egg blue?)
Isn’t it going to be so sweet? I love the vintage colors and prints.
Another view:
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I love grandmother’s flower garden quilts, but they seem really time intensive. I like the idea of appliqueing them onto a square.
By: sarah on May 22, 2010
at 9:57 am
One of the main reasons I did it this way is because the flowers were pieced with like barely more than 1/8 inch seam allowance, and I was worried they would fall apart. So I actually fused them on with iron-on stuff, except for the outer edge, and now I’m turning the edge under and appliqueing it.
By: aleatha on May 22, 2010
at 1:16 pm
That is a really fun pattern. When you did your quiliting givaway, I thought, “Oh I don’t have time to get into quilting.” But seriously since then I’ve suddenly been interested. I really like this quilt I saw recently: http://angrychicken.typepad.com/angry_chicken/2010/04/anna-marias-new-book.html
(In the third photo down.) I may have have to get that book, but I have never done any quilting, so I’ll probably have to find a tutor!
By: Jeanette on May 23, 2010
at 9:12 pm
Yeah, a few years ago I was like, “Quilting? Maybe when I’m 80…it’s boring and not that cute, and it takes too long.” But now I love it! That is a cute pattern. It looks a lot like the same concept as this super easy tutorial: http://www.filminthefridge.com/2009/04/27/a-string-quilt-block-tutorial-paper-pieced-method/
By: aleatha on May 24, 2010
at 6:44 am