What got me started with quilting?  It was definitely ‘for the love of fabric’ –  and though I love all the modern stuff out there, I have a tender spot for traditional vintage quilts.  I just had a treat on my machine!  A GFG (Grandmother’s Flower Garden) quilt – 70 GFG blocks – with very dated vintage fabrics.  Some were original feed-sack fabrics from the 20’s, I’m sure of it!

7 rows x 10 GFGs per row x 19 mini hexagons per GFG!

These blocks were found at a garage sale by the friend of the person who brought me this beauty.  Her friend was blanket stitching the GFGs to the background and sadly passed before she finished but this friend is seeing the quilt to completion.

The coolest thing (and unless you are a quilter it will make no sense at all..) is that some of these 1 1/2 inch hexagon blocks have pieces of fabric sewn together – to me this is part of what’s so special about this quilt – the original quilter improvised to get all the pieces needed to complete each hexagon….

So with that said (sorry for the bit of rambling but I can’t help myself) – here is one additional photo of this great vintage patchwork:

I posted about this quilt a few weeks ago after I finished quilting it but did not show you the front.  The quilt is now completed with binding and will be displayed for the first time at our guild meeting tomorrow CVQGVT.org

So here it is in all it’s glory!

This is the guild’s 2014 Raffle Quilt and tickets will be available at various local quilt stores, the Champlain Valley Fair in the Blue Pavilion building and also at our Guild’s show which will be at the Fairgrounds in October (for details see the guild website by using the link above)

Wow – beautiful paperpieced quilt on my machine – very time consuming to quilt but coming out great! I’m using a combination of free motion with some computerized quilting as well..