Hi Friends! Do you ever have a day when you just don't feel like sewing? It's rare for me, but it does happen, and it happened yesterday. I didn't feel like doing much of anything but watch TV and go down many quilty rabbit holes. Late in the afternoon, I decided I should at least take a look in the UFO box for a Part 2 of "What's In The Box" blog post.
I went through this box and organized it on Wednesday evening. Organizing was nothing more than making sure every project was in a bag. I didn't open projects already in a bag. So, as I go through these bags over the next few days, I might find a few surprises hiding inside. They were put back in the box in no particular order and shared in no particular order.
Today's UFO is three different bags of Grandmothers Flower Garden Blocks and one Sunflower block.
Let's start off with the hand pieced Sunflower. How it got here is a mystery but it sure is cute. The first thought that came to mind for using it was a simple pillow.
The same story for the next two bags of blocks. I don't remember anything about them. All are hand pieced and older fabrics.
These are in bag two.
Bag three. I made these blocks many years ago but when? After searching my blog for any talk of Grandmothers Flower Garden blocks, I found ZERO posts. A good guess would be 12 to 16 yrs ago. I remember working on these while on camping trips and long road trips. Oh well, they are old and that's good enough.
In the bag is more fabric and cardboard templates for making more blocks. To be on the safe side I'll leave the these stored with the blocks. Being fickle is something I do really well, so it's a good idea to keep them out of my stash and ready to be used for more blocks.
If all of the blocks from the 3 bags were the same size, they could easily be put into one quilt. But life likes to throw challenges my way. Each set is a different size. Oh, I'm certain there's a way to put them all in one quilt but do I want the hassle? Again, only time will tell. I love them all and plan to use them, I just don't have a plan.
Over the years I've pulled out my bag of blocks and played with ideas for setting them as applique on a large piece of background fabric.
A Medallion style quilt, then add some applique around the outside in the blank areas to make it more interesting.
After taking the pictures above, editing and writing this blog post for today it was time to get back to being lazy. I started looking for ideas online. After about an HOUR, I stumble across a quilt made by Lori Holt. It was late and I needed to get to bed. So, I opted to cancel the 4 am scheduled post so I could add the following.
In this quilt Lori's flowers are appliqued to a background fabric then snowballed and set with colorful sashing. I like it! Maybe this is an option but on a much larger scale. Her style of applique would be the quickest way to finish my project. I don't really like her style other than it's fast. Since I borrowed her quilt image, I'm not going to tell you or show you her applique technique. You can find the tutorial by clicking here.
If I choose to go this route, all the blocks from the three bags could be used in one quilt. It wouldn't be the prettiest quilt, but it would be finished and have a story to tell. What do you think?
You would have a very unique quilt if you went with the Lor Holt layout. My thought would be to do one size of the flowers with that layout as the middle, then use the other size flowers as a border around that. Just a thought.
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