Grandma's flower garden
09-23-2011, 05:07 AM
#31
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My GFGs are "controled" scrappy. The rows of each flower is the same, but each flower is different. I have used the same yellow for each flower center, and only one green fabric for the path's. I have seen a couple here on this thread where the flower is all scrappy. I like that idea also. I love that tiny one someone posted! Mine are 1 in. hexies, but I think I have fallen in love with the smaller ones. Just have fun which ever way you go. It is a nice take-along project, and a good scrap buster.
09-23-2011, 05:39 AM
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Originally Posted by Carol J.
To tie it all together you will need one color for the path or the flowers will be lost in the "weeds". I used index cards for the base, stitched the hexagons on cards, hand whipped them together and used the cards many times. This is a good project to carry along. Keep in a box that you can grab at a moment's notice when you need something to do with your hands.
A favorite of mine and my mother's.
Carol J.
A favorite of mine and my mother's.
Carol J.
Still don't get the "path" thing...are you talking about the material in between each of the flowers?? There are the petals, then the centers, then path??? Weeds???? I am lost.
09-23-2011, 05:41 AM
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I started on my first GFG yesterday and quickly got tired of basting !!! So I sprayed starch in a small cover and wet all around the hex then prerssed---Voila---they held perfectly to sew them together. I found that you should match your thread, I used off white on red and the stitches showed a little, to me anyway.
Good luck, Kutnso
Good luck, Kutnso
09-23-2011, 06:03 AM
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Each flower is edged with a solid color and you "walk" through the garden of flowers on this path. If the flowers are printed fabric, the path would be solid so each flower will show up. If you put the flowers side by side without the path, they will just be a jumble of color. Each garden has a path you can walk on to see the flowers in your own garden and Grandmother's Garden.
A logical question if you have never seen this design. Grandmother's Garden pattern has been around for many years and the arrangements just as many. I first saw it when I was a child in the 30's, my mother loved it, was her favorite and so easy to make but best done by hand, the seams are too short to use the sewing machine.
Carol J.
A logical question if you have never seen this design. Grandmother's Garden pattern has been around for many years and the arrangements just as many. I first saw it when I was a child in the 30's, my mother loved it, was her favorite and so easy to make but best done by hand, the seams are too short to use the sewing machine.
Carol J.
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