Paper Pieces

9-19-10: Grandmother's Flower Garden is a traditional hand pieced quilt made from THOUSANDS of hexagons. Why on earth would anyone want to make a quilt like this? Only a quilter gone mad!

Where does the name come from? Is it only made by grandmother's who have the time and the patience to complete such utter maddness? Does a quilter start this quilt as soon as she can sew because she will be a grandmother by the time she finishes it? It must be the latter because surely I will be a grandmother by the time I finish.

This is my diary because certainly I have gone mad!

Details:
Pattern: Grandmother's Flower Garden Variation - garden flowers separated by a path
Method: English paper piecing, yes all pieced by hand thanks to precut templates purchased from paperpieces.com
Why this project?: When I returned to work full-time after Anjali was born, I decided to go "green" and ride BART. I wanted a project that was easy to travel with and I found this. A few templates, fabric squares, needle, scissors and thread easily fit into a scissor tin and tuck nicely into any small purse. Voilà! A project to literally last a lifetime.
Fabric: Dandelion Girl by Fig Tree Quilts
Project Start: August 2008, yes 2 years ago.
Project End: Your guess is as good as mine!

This is a photo of the Garden Lattice quilt I finally finished from jAmerican Patchwork and Quilting, April 2002, using the elogated hexagon, square, and half square triangle from paper pieces. My only attempt at English Paper Piecing made totally possible by your templates.

Aloha

Jo

These are the photos of the star thingies I've been making with the 60 degree diamonds. They are made with the 1/4", 7/8", and 1" Diamonds. Each one is signed, numbered, and dated in the order made, and stuffed with 100% cotton balls from the pharmacy. Darn things are addictive!

This is the first quilt from my daughter Nathalie.

Kind Regards

Liliane