Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday and will have a safe New Year holiday! I have some progress on my Grandmother’s Flower Garden quilt as I was able to stitch together another section. This week the goal is to get this section attached to the main quilt.
I am linking up with Jessica at Life Under Quilts! Come join the fun!
– Allison
After the Christmas rush, I realized my sewing room was a complete disaster! Our basement is also a family room, but it certainly has become my “Sewing Cave” and not the “Man Cave” my husband had planned 🙂
So thankful that finals are over and I had a chance to finish some projects just in time for Christmas!
Even though I had finals last week and I am still sewing Christmas presents, I managed a little work on my Grandmother’s Flower Garden quilt. After all, every bit counts!!!
Life has been so crazy…again…whose idea was graduate school? All I keep thinking about is all the stitching I am missing! 🙂 I have found myself posting to Instagram much more than my blog, but I am going to try to do better.
The awesome news is that I have completed all the flowers for my Grandmother’s Flower Garden! Woo hoo! Here is the very last one I stitched:
And here is what I have to work with:
And I have basted another 50 background hexies:
So you may be wondering what all my counts are 🙂 I have stitched together 925 – 1 1/2″ hexagons. Just totally amazing! I started this project 4th of July weekend in 2013. I am starting to see the end in sight.
I want to end this blog post with a personal endeavor. I have received my Grandmother’s 1924 Singer 66 Treadle machine. I am going to refurbish it so that I can use it. It has a lot of sentimental value and there is something so cool about getting back to basics. No electricity…just good old foot power. I thought I would share a picture of the sewing machine and of course included my GFG project!
I feel so thankful for all of you and for Jessica’s effort to keep the Monday Morning Star Count alive! I am linking up with Jessica at Life Under Quilts and all the wonderful people I have met that are so encouraging!
Wow! I had the busiest week ever, but so every free moment I worked on EPP. So excited that I finished 5 flowers. I only have 9 more to go! I am going to try to complete the last 9 before Thanksgiving 🙂 then on to the background hexagons! And I have to start thinking about backing and whether I should hand quilt….so much left to do! Any suggestions…machine quilt or hand quilt?
Whose idea was graduate school anyway? 🙂 That’s what I think when I see my EPP sitting beside me and I have to research and write papers! I know it will be worth it in the end, but I really, really, want to stitch!! LOL!
Feeling pretty good that I at least managed to stitch up two flowers this week! I tried timing myself and it takes me nearly an hour to stitch one full flower. These are 1 1/2″ hexies. I don’t know if that is slow or fast, but I guess it is what it is 🙂 I don’t want to rush and I actually enjoy taking my time stitching. The rest of my life is so much of a rush that I look forward to stitching and I don’t want to ruin it! EPP is the best stress therapy ever!
So here are my flowers for this week:
This week I want to measure the quilt, figure out how many more flowers and background hexagons I need to complete the queen size quilt. I would also love to get three flowers done 🙂
Feeling fortunate to be linking up with Jessica at Life Under Quilts. What a wonderful group and so inspiring to see all your projects!
I so wish I had more time to stitch! Even though I was distracted by other obligations, I still managed to complete one flower 🙂 I have been working on this project since July 2013.
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