Grandmas Flower Garden blocks and glue?
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Grandmas Flower Garden blocks and glue?
A friends of mine gave me 52 GFG blocks hand pieced by his Grandma years ago. I washed and ironed them all and want to sew them onto fabric in 12 inch squares and then quilt.
My question is:
What should I use to hold them to the background fabric?
If I use iron-on it will take plenty so can I use a spray? If so what do you recommend?
Can watered down white school glue work, or spray starch?
Thanks for your help. Board members are the greatest!
My question is:
What should I use to hold them to the background fabric?
If I use iron-on it will take plenty so can I use a spray? If so what do you recommend?
Can watered down white school glue work, or spray starch?
Thanks for your help. Board members are the greatest!
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Why don't you sew them together without the backing? It would be time consuming, but would make a beautiful quilt.
You don't mention how you intend to permanently attach the flowers to the white background square. Have you decided?
bkay
You don't mention how you intend to permanently attach the flowers to the white background square. Have you decided?
bkay
Last edited by bkay; 02-13-2017 at 04:47 PM. Reason: clarify question
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I plan to stitch all around the points. I already have a GFG quilt with the hexagons stitched together so wanted something a bit different. Also the background is pale lavender as the outer hexxies are off white and this makes them show up well.
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Use elmer's washable school glue in stick form. seeb link below:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_no...ers+glue+stick
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_no...ers+glue+stick
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Meant to say I have two quilts connected as you suggested. So pretty; one has green on the outer hexagon row, other has a multi-colored print. So many little stitches and so many memories of ladies in the parlor quilting and laughing. Some of the pieces are from my school dresses made from feed sacks. Grandma always let me come with her to the feed store to pick out the prints I liked.
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