Gentle Gems - Val Laird BOM

 This morning I finished the April blocks in the Val Laird Gentle Gems Block of the Month.

April Blocks

January thru April

Now to wait "patiently" for May!

Grandmother's Flower Garden

Have completed the first row of my Grandmother's Flower Garden (GFG).  I had made a quilt top years ago with just the little flower centers  and not in the traditional GFG pattern.  I never finished it as it just was not what I really wanted.  So I gave the top to a friend as she loved it and would finish it, and I started a traditional GFG quilt.  I have been making quilts with more complex EPP designs and pieces, and am loving working with hexagons again and EPP a traditional quilt.

The blocks below the first row are just pinned to give me an idea of how it will go together.  This is not the arrangement they will be in the final quilt.  When my mother made her quilt, she used the diamond connector pieces so I wanted to make one as she did.

 

Quilt Shelf

I ordered a shelf for my quilts as I was beginning to run out of closet space.  Finally found one at Wayfair.  My wonderful brother put it together for me.  I also moved my quilt ladder to the same room and put antique quilts made my husband's Grandmothers, Great Aunt and one by his mother. I love having them displayed together and I know he probably enjoys seeing them all together too.  His great aunt made the postage stamp quilt top on the bottom rung.  His mom gave it to me to mend as it had set of so long that the threads were starting to come apart. I sewed all the rows back together and my mother hand quilted it for me.  Then I put the binding on.  In one place the fabrics had deteriorated so bad I could not mend them, so I made an embroidered quilt label for that space.