"Grandmother's Flower Garden" 
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Entered by Mary Ragland(austin, TX)
- Other Top Makers: Fannie Elmira Reeder Rudolph
- Size: 67" W x 85" L
- Entry #800-013, Two-Person Quilts Category
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Awards
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- Second in Two-Person Quilts Category
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Comments
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My mother, Fannie Elmira Reeder Rudolph, pieced the blocks for this quilt in the 1950's and 1960's. She gave me the blocks in the 70's or 80's. Fannie had accumulated some scraps of the green fabric over the years, carefully ripping apart the good parts of used garments, and pressing or rolling them, and stashing them in the box with the pieced blocks. I violated Fannie's rule of not purchasing fabric for a quilt top, and purchased additional green fabric to set the blocks together. She had also cut out the yellow hexagons to be set in the center of each block, pinning them to the block for which she intended each center. From her stash of scraps, I cut enough white hexagons to put around the outside to make the edges straight. This is the same technique she used on a flower garden quilt she finished for me in about 1955. I hand quilted the quilt, finishing it in 2005.
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Techniques
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Hand Piecing, Hand Quilting
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Design Source
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Traditional
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