Grandmother's Flower Garden

First I made flowers - 57 of them, to be precise. I have no clue if that will be enough to make a quilt; I'll proceed until I have an answer. 

Then I made paths - individually prepared hexies out of shirting fabrics from the stash. Last time I wrote about making these (this post), I was planning to make path hexies until I either ran out of templates or fabric. Changed my mind. I still have plenty of each, but it just seemed to make more sense to get the quilt started.

So I did. I now have nine flowers attached to each other by way of low-volume hexie paths. It's been easy enough to do this, and mostly I stitch these when we watch TV in the evening.

I'm attaching this blue flower right now. I'm at the point where I next will add additional path hexies around this flower. Then I will select the flower to insert into the space beside it.

Looking at the back is kinda' cool. You can see where I've removed the templates and where the templates are still in place. 

I'm hoping I can maintain my enthusiasm for this project. I know it seems tedious, and I far too often give in to tedium by putting projects aside in favor of working on other things. Since I will be in Florida through March, I am going to try to make a huge amount of progress on my Grandmother's Flower Garden while I am here. Wouldn't it be lovely to go home with a huge chunk of this completed? 

Happy Quilting, Friends!

Jayne