Grandma’s Flower Garden quilt pieces
After looking at so many flowers around the prop yesterday, I got inspired to get some bright colored fabric and make a Grandma’s Flower Garden quilt. Not sure how big I will make this or how frustrating the machine piecing may be, but it has been fun to cut the hexagons out and arrange them. Off to get the sewing machine rolling…
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June 18th, 2008 @ 11:58 am
When you quilt Gradma’s flower garden, will you quilt around each piece?
June 18th, 2008 @ 6:20 pm
I am thinking so. I am hand-piecing these and I think the quilting around all of the pieces will make it even more stable. This will be the first quilt that I have hand-pieced…so am hoping it all works out!
August 30th, 2008 @ 10:47 am
Do you machine sew the rows together, top to bottom, or do you sew together the flower block, and then put them together? My hexagons are 2-1/2 inches each, but don’t know what to do next. Thanks for any help you can offer.
August 31st, 2008 @ 3:20 pm
Hi Karen - I am hand sewing the pieces, and I sew the flower blocks, row by row first (each little side of a hexagon to another side so you get a strip), then each row together to form the flower block, then when I have several flower blocks I sew those together into a long strip of flower blocks that eventually get sewn to the larger quilt top.
Hand piecing for me has been easier, but slow, using the machine for me was hard to get the same seam allowance on each and also hard to get the inside corners just right
Good luck on your quilt!!
September 28th, 2008 @ 3:22 pm
Thanks for posting this on line. I have a hand pieced Grandma’s Garden that my grandmother made. I am quilting it by hand, I really want to keep the integrity of the quilt. I wasn’t sure if I should quilt around each “layer” of the flower. Do you know what is the “traditional” or “vintage” way of quilting this? Thanks so much for your response…..
October 4th, 2008 @ 6:54 pm
Hi Debbie - all of the Grandmother’s Flower Garden quilts I have seen have the quilting around the inside of each hexagon. I do not know if this is the traditional way, but I have not seen it done any other way. Maybe someone else knows and will leave a comment? Best of luck with your quilt, I hope to get back to mine once the weather finally gets cooler here in Texas.