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: