From 2023 comes this quilt started very ambitiously but…somewhere along the way, life happened. It is based on Di Ford’s pattern of the ‘Maggie Grace’s Garden’ quilt she made for her granddaughter, with a beautiful appliqued ‘border of hexagon flowers in baskets joined by berries forming swags’.
I started it in September 2021, carrying some hexagons with me to the Jim Corbett National Park! The hexagons in yellow, orange and green that form the basic flower, by the way, were pre-cut ones I had bought years ago when I had just decided I wanted to quilt. I cut the ones used for the centres and in the white and green pathways myself.
Of course, one also had get up at unearthly hours to go on jungle safaris looking for tigers!
Well, we never did get to spot a tiger, though I managed to piece a few hexagons..
The project was put away, to be revived only when I joined the #100dayproject on Instagram four months later.
More pictures of the project in progress…
Would you believe it, I finished the top in six months from when I started it! A record for me. By the way, I joined the green ‘pathways’ with the machine! It worked out quite neat.
But…yes of course, the path of the true quilter couldn’t ever be that smooth, right? What intervened was a lo…ong visit to the USA followed by an uprooting as we moved from Jaipur to Bangalore! Another year passed! When I finally found time to pick up the quilt, there was pending an appliqued border with over 300 tiny circles, if I remember correctly. I decided to make 3/4” yo-yos instead!
I was also looking for a green striped fabric for the border. The fabric I ordered turned out to be not quite the shade I wanted. And now I needed a quilt, fast, for a friend I would be visiting soon. So I settled for the Jaipuri white on white block print that I had used in the blocks.
The yo-yos were put aside and the white border looked so…bare. Perhaps this scallop that Di Ford recommends would help?
Not bad, eh?
No time to do quilting either! My quilter friend Vatsala from Tsala Studio came to my rescue. And she did a great job.
The finished quilt, bar the binding…
The quilt was bound and ready just in time to travel all the way to London.
My friend, who is an avid gardener, loved her spring garden quilt!
Some pictures of her beautiful English garden!
The perfect home for this quilt, wouldn’t you say? My friend also loves the garden she can cuddle in, when her backyard gets buried under snow…
(So that catches up with one more finished quilt.)
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