homage to grandmother's flower garden

Look at This!?! from Quilting through Rose-colored Trifocals!

A BIG project is finished!!

Homage to Grandmother's Flower Garden, an original design by Katja Marek was my big focus in 2022. I pieced my version as part of her annual sew-along. The pattern and English paper piecing supplies are available from Paper Pieces in Paducah, KY HERE.

My version is machine-pieced using 3/4" hexagons (cut with a Marti Michell template) and my Set-In Piecing Simplified technique to chain piece -- PDF HERE. Most participants used 1" hexagons and English paper piecing including Katja's mom who worked with 1/2" hexagons!?!

The finished quilt measures 58" square and ...

added by Mary Huey 1 year, 8 months ago. under homage to grandmother's flower garden

It's been a GREAT day!! from Quilting through Rose-colored Trifocals!

The design wall is empty today!! My version of Katja Marek's Homage to Grandmother's Flower Garden is completed -- well, the top is finished!!

I've spent part of everyday since New Year's Day assembling the subsections into bigger sections until there were two diagonal halves. All that was left to stitch were dozens of 3/4" seams -- stitch one, stitch a "sew-off", stitch another, and so on.

My goal was to finish the piecing by the time I leave for a retreat in a week where I started this project last winter. Managing my neck arthritis is ...

added by Mary Huey 1 year, 11 months ago. under homage to grandmother's flower garden , machine piecing , marti michell set n , set-in piecing simplified , sew my stash , stash busting

A Philosophical Moment from Quilting through Rose-colored Trifocals!

During the first spring of the pandemic, I found a sprouted peach pit in the compost. I planted it in a pot and it grew!! It survived the first winter of the pandemic and in the second spring, I moved it into a bigger pot and set it into a sunny spot. It grew to about 3 feet tall. This year, as the winter began to shift into spring, I fussed about whether the sapling had survived -- the leaf buds looked so tight and brown.

Happily, the leaf buds began to open about a week ago and then yesterday to ...

added by Mary Huey 2 years, 8 months ago. under homage to grandmother's flower garden , piecing hexies

What's On Your "To-Do" List? from Quilting through Rose-colored Trifocals!

Greetings from a sunny ( and balmy) snowy Northeast Ohio!!

It's 37 degrees F. and after the cold days last week, it feels quite nice. I might not even wear gloves outside today?!? Yes, all those comedy routines and jokes about us apply when the winter sun is shining and it gets up to freezing! We are on the downhill side of winter and the year round resident birds like cardinals and tufted titmice have started territorial singing as the daylight increases. Hearing them cheers me right up and is a signal to my brain that spring is coming!!

How ...

added by Mary Huey 2 years, 10 months ago. under 2022 ufo's assault , english paper piecing , homage to grandmother's flower garden , set-in piecing simplified

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