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| Granny's Garden Walk |
Are
you ready for another Granny Rose block? She had two completed
samples of this one in different sizes. The nine patch block is
based on 54-40 or Fight design, but has been known by several names
over the years. In 1939, it was published as Garden Walk; in 1969 it
went by Bird of Paradise; some call it Grandmother's Star when colors
are arranged to emphasize the star points.
Mine
is a 12” finished block, and as usual, I used Electric Quilt 8 to
design and Accuquilt dies to cut the pieces. The 2 ½” square
value die for center and corner four patches and the 4” finished
triangle in square die went together perfectly.
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| Lydia Rose's Garden Walk blocks |
I chose four 1930's
era colors in two shades each: sunny yellow, luscious lavender, true
blue, and grass green, with white for all the triangles.
Granny's
Garden Walk is 48” square. I arranged the colors diagonally
and decided not to use sashing between the squares. I like the
secondary design where the corners come together.
Quilting was done
with white thread, using a walking foot to stitch lines in a lightly
flowing wave pattern. Backing is a tiny lattice print in light
lavender and white; binding is white.
Start
to finish, this took me seven days, working on it several hours every
day. I still had time for walks, housework (basics only), and errands.
A week of sewing = one happy quilter!
A
day without quilting
probably
won't kill me,
but
why take the risk?
