Grandmothers Flower Garden Quilt History

Sometimes i fi nd easier / modern ways to make the quilt pattern, and sometimes i change up the pattern a bit to freshen things up.

Grandmothers flower garden quilt history. Layer batting between quilt top and backing. At that time, her mother altered the shape of the quilt to fit on her bed. The only quilt my grandmother ever pieced was a grandmother’s flower garden quilt right before she got married in 1934.

And then i was nervous. By the 20th century hexagon quilts were usually made in the grandmother's flower garden pattern. Grandmother’s flower garden quilts can be bound with bias binding following edges of hexagons.

Pin or baste layers together. Moda, robert kaufman, maywood, hoffman, benartex, windham, northcott, andover and many more! This pattern was very popular in this era, and often made like this one, with a variety of pastel scrap fabrics on white.

Grandmother’s flower garden is a quilt pattern that has been popular in the usa from the early nineteenth century and especially during the 1920's and 1930's. A perennial favorite even before i became a quilter, there was one traditional quilt pattern that i recognized and knew the name of—it was the grandmother’s flower garden. Grandmother's flower garden quilts evoke memories of the great depression of the 1930's.

What makes this one special is that it is owned by the woman who used it on her bed as a young girl. See more ideas about quilts, hexagon quilt, hexie quilt. I'd love to get your permission to include your photos of this fabulous grandmother's flower garden quilt in the lecture/slideshow i'll be giving at the aqs quilt show in chattanooga in september.

It measures 51 x 64 inches. Grandmother's flower garden quilt patterns grandma’s garden is one of the most prevalent quilt patterns and versions of it have been used for hundred of years. Quilt historian, charlotte bull, tells about a lovely quilt finished like this.