Grandmother Flower Garden Idea
Stacey Brown
to know what to do with the background colour....this is a great
suggestion....How many other people are currently making this quilt....Would
anyone be interested in communicating via email...I could really do with
some support and some advice....eg.. how many hexagons do I need for a
queen size quilt...how do you quilt these quilts....how do you bind them
etc.
Let me know if anyone is interested
Stacey
In article <4qsg3u$4...@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, le...@aol.com (LesaF) wrote:
>Hi quilters!
>
>While at my local quilt store last week I was puzzling over the background
>color to use for my Grandmother's Flower Garden. I didn't want the
>traditional green and I really wanted something different. After picking
>out a nice slate grey, I walked to the cutting table and there on a rack
>was a picture of the neatest GFG quilt. The background colors were *all
>different* shades of green -- everything was used, prints, solids, lights,
>mediums, darks. It was *so* differerent and so neat -- almost a water
>color effect. This quilt just used the "small" flowers (one center
>surrounded by 6 petals). So I took the nice slate grey back on the shelf
>and bought 15 fat quarters of all different greens. Not only will this
>made it more visually appealing to me, but it will also not be as boring
>as piecing 3,000 hexagons all of grey.
>
>Just thought I'd pass this along to those of you struggling with GFG.
>
>Lesa
Stacey Brown Phone: 07 3864 5950
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Eileen Lucas
C F Mast
>I am also working on a Grandmother's Flower Garden....
>How many other people are currently making this quilt....Would
>anyone be interested in communicating via email...I could really do with
>some support and some advice....eg.. how many hexagons do I need for a
>queen size quilt...how do you quilt these quilts....how do you bind them
>etc.
>
>Let me know if anyone is interested
>Stacey
Hi Stacey,
I'm not making one, but I can give you a start
with the math.
Assuming your GFG is the usual 19-hex flower with
the single row of path-hex inbetween, and assuming
the rows go across the quilt (for now) --
A = measurement of 1 edge of the finished hexagon
B = measurement across (flat to flat) of the finished hexagon
C = number of rows (where the flowers are connected
on "flat" sides)
D = number of hex in the longer rows
The measurement across the flowers from "flat" to "flat" =
(D x 9 x A) + (2 x A)
The measurement across the flowers from "point" to "point" =
(4.5 x B x C) + (2.5 x B)
From these two equations, you can figure backward
to get the number of flowers per long row, and then
count the number of long rows and short rows and
figure out how many flowers. Multiply that number
by 19. Add any extra for half flowers along the edge.
The path has 9 hex per flower (count 1/2 because shared)
plus about (9 x the number of flowers in the long row)
more to finish off the last edges. Then you need
to add any extra for however you are finishing the
edges.
If the algebra intimidates you, just try guessing
how many flowers in a row until you get close to
the number you want for the width of the quilt, and
then guess the number of rows the same way.
Hope that helps,
C F Mast