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Sunday, July 27, 2014

Slow Stitching all week long...

This week I've been inspired to work on more flowers for my Grandmother's Garden quilt.  I first wrote about it here...and I'm really enjoying the hand piecing of these little beauties. 

I've pretty much decided that I'm not using any solid colors in my quilt...the fun prints I'm gathering appeal to me more than the solids do. 
 
So many pretty prints just waiting to become flowers.  I took a minute this week to count how many I have completed.  I think I'll need about 120 or so to make a queen size quilt...and that's my goal.  I have 36 flowers done...and an additional 41 center flowers done...so 77 flowers have been started so far.  I still have a LONG way to go, but I think this coming week I'll pull out all my 1930s repro fabric and see if I'll be able to use each print only once in my quilt...well, once as the center of 6 hexies & once as the outer round of 12 hexies.  That's my goal to keep the quilt scrappy.
 
What I haven't decided is if I'm using some white background prints I've collected.  I'm thinking I won't, but then again I do love flowers like this one with the cherries on the white background.  The mushroom fabric isn't really a 1930s repro print, but my Mom loved those red & white mushrooms, so I'm using this fabric as a tribute to her.  I know I'm not using the red background prints I have...those will end up in another quilt one day.
 
So here are the other flowers I've stitched this week...and I'm sharing this post on Kathy's Quilts Slow Stitching Sunday.  I had no idea that what I was doing was slow stitching...but I'm really enjoying the process of this relaxing hand piecing over time.  I have other quilts planned that will be machine pieced, but I think I'll always have one that I'm stitching one slow stitch at a time.
 
Enough of my blabbering...here are the other flowers I've completed this week...I'm going back to stitching...I have lots of flowers waiting to come alive.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Oh...and one last thing...my friend Tracy has received this gift...so I can share it here...a pincushion in her favorite color...orange...all stitched by hand & filled with sand to keep her needles sharp & clean.
I have some of these pincushions in my Etsy shop if you care to take a look. 
 
Have a great week...and do something creative...
it's good for your soul.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

7 comments:

  1. Your flowers are gorgeous! I love each one you shared!
    Enjoy your slow stitching!

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  2. Wow! you are really going to town on those flowers. Great fabrics so cheery!

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  3. You are amazing getting all those flowers down this week. Sounds like you are in the slow stitching groove!

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  4. You have more patience than me! I am not so good with Hexies.

    Enjoy your stitching, I am sure the quilt will be beautiful when it is finished.

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  5. Wow, you have a wide variety of prints for your flowers. I can't wait to see all of the flowers you are making. So pretty.

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  6. Wow, you've been busy! That's a lot of hexies for one week. It looks great, and I like the idea of lots of 30s prints. Plus, those mushrooms are really cute. Great job!

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  7. You are a hexie machine! Keep on sewing!

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