The Morning Glory Progress #8 Yup! You guessed it... stems first Leaves and then the flower Here I deviated from the original instructions for this quilt project. Looking at images of morning glory flowers many of them, if not all, had a lighter colored throat visible. An additional "flower" was cut from the lighter lavender… Continue reading Grandmother’s Flower Garden Quilt – Progress #9

Progress post #7 on this quilt project was ages ago (November). If you remember back in original posting of the quilt block patterns, I'd missed the eighth, Bleeding Heart block. It ended up being posted as the last block pattern. Using this long hiatus in progress posting as a "re-set", I decided to make the… Continue reading Grandmother’s Flower Garden Quilt – Progress #8

The Bleeding Heart The eighth flower in the series of grandmother's garden quilt was the old, old bleeding heart. Vera said she could remember seeing it in the yard with the snowballs late In May. As the club discussed the flower they discovered it was a cousin to a much more prosaically named flower -… Continue reading Grandmother’s Flower Garden Quilt #8 – Bleeding Heart

The Zinnia Both the tulip block of last week and the zinnia of this week have been chosen for dual purposes. No grandmother's garden would be complete without these two flowers and since they come in such varied colors the quilt club members had a chance to use up scraps of cloth left from other… Continue reading Grandmother’s Flower Garden Quilt #17 – Zinnia

The Tulip The Nancy Page quilt club met at Nancy's for the next to the last block. Her home was a riot of color for there were pots of tulips everywhere and that gave the members the clue for the day. "Of course, our flower is the tulip." On the table were bits or yellow,… Continue reading Grandmother’s Flower Garden Quilt #16 – Tulip

When the group of Nancy Page quilt club were making the blue bells of Scotland for an earlier basket block there had been much talk of another bell flower - the Canterbury bells. They had decided that if that flower came into the pattern they would use pale lavender or pink for these flowers. The… Continue reading Grandmother’s Flower Garden Quilt #15 – Canterbury Bells

 "Oh goody, I am so glad we are going to use more blue in this quilt. I had some pieces left over from the blue bells of Scotland and I did want to have another patch of blue in my flower quilt." "Well, of course we could not have Grandmother's garden without the forget-me-not. To… Continue reading Grandmother’s Flower Garden Quilt #14 – Forget Me Not

 It was Dorothy's turn to entertain the quilt club. She had been talking to Nancy and had laid out the pieces for the thirteenth block of the quilt. On the work table were pieces of striped pink and white, pieces of rose and of lighter pink, of lavender in two shades, as well as the… Continue reading Grandmother’s Flower Garden Quilt #13 – Morning Glory

Jonquil Progress #6 I thought that I was further behind than I am on this quilt project. I finished this on Saturday and was feeling bummed out because I wanted to post a progress update that was up-to-date. I didn't realize that I WAS current, as to the weekly blocks that have been posted. That… Continue reading Grandmother’s Flower Garden Quilt – Progress #7

Julia was hostess on the day the quilt club made the jonquil block. She was something of a jonquil person herself with her gold hair, her yellow dress and her pendant of glowing topaz. "You see this dress I have on? Well, I had enough pieces of fast color gingham left over to let you… Continue reading Grandmother’s Flower Garden Quilt #12 – Jonquil