Progress on Flower Garden

This Grandmother's Flower Garden quilt will be one of those projects that sees me working on it diligently for awhile, then taking breaks from it for awhile. I do this already with Lake Effect. Having multiple hand projects going at the same time will be interesting. Wonder which I will gravitate to?

I have taken the first step in attaching paths to flowers. Mostly I just wanted to know how difficult it would be to manipulate those hexie edges with the papers still in. I will work on this for awhile longer, then return to prepping the neutral hexies still needing to be done. I have no idea how many of these I will need, so I will make them until I run out.

Which will I run out of first - the fabric or the templates? I am guessing I will run out of fabric first. It seems that pile of templates is way bigger. The prepped hexies are stacked in increments of 10, so I count 284 ready to go.

As for the flowers, I have 57 made. I suppose I could find a source or an app or a calculator that would tell me how big of a quilt this would become, but I haven't looked around for one. And I don't really need to know; I am content to wait and see how it will look and what size it will be as I stitch. I feel as though I am creating a butterfly out of a caterpillar. I rather like that I will be surprised by the end result.

It will be so cool seeing all these pretty fabric combinations become blooms in my GFG. This fresh new project has me rather energized to get a lot done on it. I hope I can maintain this enthusiasm.

 When I see all these parts stacked and counted and organized I find it somewhat curious that there's enough raw materials here to make a whole quilt. Now many stitches have I already taken? How much thread have I used? And how many more stitched will be required to finish? This all boggles the mind.

Are there any Ohio State Buckeye fans in my viewing audience? We are all geared up for the big championship game tonight. And we are having a celebratory inauguration lunch with my brother- and sister-in-law. Big day with big events!

I am linking up with Kathy and her Slow Sunday Stitching party. 

Happy Stitching, Friends!

Jayne