My 80 year old mother has been working her fingers to the bone......
02-14-2011, 01:57 PM
#191
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Originally Posted by abdconsultant
My mother has always been busy working full time as a registered nurse until she was 70 years old, She has a fragile heart and rhumatoid arthritis. She wants to sew but can't sit in a chair and lean over her machine , so I thought I would give her a little project to do, english paper piece hexagons. I gave her some scraps and look........... this is just a few of her shoe boxes full of these flowers. She want me to finish them into a quilt { before she goes to the other side} I don't even know where to start. I might add, everyone of them is dang near perfect!
Then sort the others into all cotton color families - like all greens. or blues plain and prints of darks and lights, or reds and oranges together.
This will make a color harmony for each family, so count them, and put them on the white bedspread, to see if you like it.
Once you have the color familes, you can explore other
combinations...
Then ask a more experienced quilter to help you and your mom.
02-14-2011, 02:03 PM
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Originally Posted by jackied
Awesome! They would be pretty appliqued onto a white whole cloth with a few leaves here and there.
02-15-2011, 06:39 PM
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So very lovely. Give her a hug from me for showing her work. I had a book years ago about this English style of pieceing but Seeing this is just great. No, I never tried it then,but now just maybe. Marvel
02-16-2011, 09:01 AM
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So good of you to find such a wonderful project for you mom. It is so gratifying for older folk to still have accomplishments. My mom died at 95 and she still had projects so did. It helps with their mind and the feeling of being needed. Thanks to you.
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02-17-2011, 06:23 PM
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Originally Posted by scrubbie
I did a quilt like this several years ago. The entire quilt is the hexagons. I would get a fabric to create a background for the flowers and have her make the hexagons that could be stitched between the flowers. She can make the entire quilt.
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