If you follow me on Instagram you have maybe seen these pink English Paper Piecing flowers that I’ve been working on here and there. I’ve been getting questions about them so I thought I’d do a blog post about this project. A few months ago I was in a quilt shop in Spokane Washington and spotted a little EPP (English Paper Piecing) display that was the sweetest little flower, and I instantly fell in love! But the shop was sold out of the templates. I finally tracked down the pieces at…
After hand sewing 1078 hexies to make 154 hexagon flowers I decided to start stitching them together. 3/4" hexies, each flower uses two different fabrics (no duplicates in quilt). I'll have to sew more hexies to make a nice sized lap quilt, but at least now it is looking like a quilt and not just a jar of flowers.
A few months back, I started a Grandmother's Flower Garden quilt. I needed to greatly reduce the amount of scraps spilling out of the craft closet and this seemed like the perfect quilt to use them up in. I started full of gusto, but after finishing my fourth "flower" I quickly realized that the vast majority of my scraps were of only two colors--red and blue. There were a few pinks and even fewer greens and just a handful of purples and yellows...but that was it. I could have made just a…
