Sun Best~Provoked Thought: Proverbs 14:13 CSB

 

Quilt Shot 194~ Grandmother's Flower Garden (Hand Stitched)

 

"Grandmother's Flower Garden"

A 36 in x 36 in approx quilt

for my new Great Grand Daughter.

Hand pieced and quilted. 

I've attempted a few by hand back in the 1980s.

This is my first one completely finished. 

 

To review the process:

1. Cutting the pieces and starting the flowers

Wordless Wed 426~ Getting Ready to Welcome New Great Grand Daughter 

  

 2. Putting flowers together

Fun Fri~ Grandmother's Flower Garden Keeps Growing 

 

3. Finishing the flower layout

Fun Fri~ Expanding Grandmother's Flower Garden

4. Extra time was put into adding pieces to square up the quilt.

Quilt was sandwiched with batting & 

backing (which was machine stitched together).

 Then layers safety pinned together. 

No shots were taken.

 

5. Hand quilting

Fun Fri~ Let the Hand Quilting Begin

 

6. Binding was sewn by machine for first step,

then hand binded second step like many have been done on this blog. 

I made a label for the quilt and hand stitched it to the back.

How to make a label.

 When I gift a quilt,

I try to make a pillow case or bag to present the quilt.

 

My grand daughter tells me she likes the bags as much as the gifts.

She reuses them a lot, which is what I hope for. 

 

There was just enough of the flower fabric and flower center and binding

to make the bag. 

 

 

And of course with a scrap tag.

Many at the shower said tags didn't come on gift bags anymore.

Should I make some for Christmas gifts? 

 

Sorry I covered up her smile.

I believe she was happy with the colors.

They are often found in her home.

Lots of the new baby clothes were of the peachy orange color.

 

Sun Best~Provoked Thought: Titus 3:1 NIV

 

Fun Fri~ Quarter Inch Hexies

 

The length of the side of these hexagons

are one fourth inch.

I used slightly less than a quarter inch seam.

Each seam only took 3 very small stitches.

Can you guess what I made?

 

 

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He has ownership in race horses.

I did a search online for

"Black line clip art horse"

Traced an outline from my phone screen.

Added some "hair" lines.

Pinned the paper to the fabric. 

 

 

Set my stitch length at 1.5.

Stitched on the drawn lines.

Tore the paper off.

You can see a couple of spots of paper

I didn't get off.

I decided to leave them for texture.

Then sewed the fabric to card stock around the edge

matching thread color to the fabric.
 

Happy Birthday!

Sun Best~Provoked Thought: Deuteronomy 11:15 ESV

 

Fun Fri~ Let the Hand Quilting Begin

 

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Just type in "dog clipart" (for my dog loving daughter) into a search engine and you get several images to give you ideas.

 

There was one close to this idea, but I gave it a bit of a twist to try to be my own. Thanks to the person that had this one line idea.

 

FYI, years ago I took a 101 art class for my elementary degree. We learned about several types of art. Two that I remember were Pointillism and Single Line Art. I wondered then, who really uses those? Guess what? They do come in handy for fiber art. 

Stitch length 1.5 to tear away paper more easily.

I still like the control with the straight foot

instead of the free motion.

 

Sun Best~Provoked Thought: Matthew 11:28 ESV

 

Fun Fri~ Expanding Grandmother's Flower Garden

 

According to my research,

 A "Grandmother's Flower Garden" consists of

2 rounds making a flower,

set together with one other fabric.

The days of my grandmother, set their flowers apart 

with white. 

Today, any color is used.

I chose this peach color that new Mommy's today

seem to like. 

 

I was short of fabric for 5 hexies.

I did have fabric to piece 5 of them together.

It was common for our grandmother's to 

piece together pieces,

because they usually made these 

Flower gardens with fabric of old clothes.

 

 

This is what was left over.

Even though they look like large pieces,

they actually were not big enough to cut a whole hexie.

 

Now to even out the edges.

The hardest part, because it twists my brain. 

 

 

 Each night I go to bed,

I tell myself I'll have the top done in another day.

Somehow that doesn't happen.

The top was to be done in my plans by April 30! 

 

 I need to have it hand quilted by May 24.

Will it happen? 

 

Sun Best~Provoked Thought: Proverbs 27:19 EASY

 

Fun Fri~ Grandmother's Flower Garden Keeps Growing