Flower Garden Quilt: May Update

I seem to be keeping a good pace, about a month to get one row done, thought I did stay up a bit late last night to finish the row off.  I love how it's starting to take shape and I can't wait to start the third row this week!  This is definitely one of the most relaxing projects I've ever done!

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Quilting Update: April

I finished the first row of my quilt this morning, and was so excited!  It is moving along a lot faster than I thought it was going to, and I'm so happy with how it looks so far!  I'm also surprised at how relaxing it is, even sewing everything by hand!  I can't wait to see how far I get next month!

The whole first row - I still have some things to fill in and I think I'll do two rows on the outside to make it a bit wider.

Up-close of one of the flowers.

Lots of tiny, tiny stitches!

Quilt Update: Picking Fabrics

This week I ordered my fabric for my quilt on Etsy, and it is absolutely beautiful!  I love all the colors and couldn't wait to start working on it tonight.  I purchased the solid colored fabric and background fabric from from a local JoAnn fabric store.

I am using fabrics from the Kumari Garden collection.  Great quality and wonderful feel to them!

All the fabrics that I purchased in my bundle.  

Solid fabrics to help balance out the patterns.

This white fabric is so pretty and dainty, I just love it!  This will be the fabric for my background.

This is the fabric for the center of all my flowers.
It's not as bright in person, but it has an adorable leaf pattern to it.  

I made my first flower tonight.  It's so pretty and I wish I had the energy to keep going.  Tomorrow is supposed to be ugly and rainy, so maybe I will get another flower or two done then.  :-)

A Grandmother's Flower Garden...

Yesterday I sat with a woman at church who pulled out a little bag with lots of colorful fabric scraps, and I was automatically intrigued.  After watching her work for a few minutes I asked her what she was making, and she told me a brief history of the Grandmother's Flower Garden quilt (sometimes called the English Flower Garden quilt).  She was kind enough to show me how it's done, and I knew that this was a project for me.

It might take me a decade.  And I might just give up and make pillows with them instead, but they are so beautiful and timeless...I can't wait to pick out fabrics for it!

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