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