Aunt Viola,s Flower Garden

Do you ever have that feeling that you want to hug someone and you are just too far away from them almost all of the time?  I feel that way about my Aunt Viola.  Actually she is my Great Aunt and I love her to death.  She is fun and spunky and you always see her zipping around in her little car going to work or doing something.  I hope that I have at least half her energy when I am her age!  (Seriously... she has 2 jobs during the summer and one the rest of the year!)

So I saw Aunt Viola this weekend and I decided at that last minute that she needed a quilt because sometimes when things aren't going as expected you want to hold you family close and what better way than in a quilt made with love.  I went to one of my favorite parts of my stash, my 30's and 40's reproduction prints.  I grabbed a stack and started slicing off strips of random lengths ranging from 2.5 inches to 8 inches.

I stitched them together in no particular order and then backed it with a pretty pink and blue from my stack.

I used then squiggle stitch on mom's new machine to stitch horizontally over the seams across the front then stitch vertically down the front in 5 spots (no measuring).  It is bound with pieces of the prints that I had in my strip box and a few left over pieces from the quilt.  It is perfectly cuddly with warm and natural batting.

I grabbed a few hexies out of my box that are waiting to be put on to my hexie quilt and made a tag for the quilt.

This quilt named Aunt Viola's Flower Garden was made with love for my amazing Great Aunt Viola.

Now I will never hear the end of it until I make one for my Godmother ;)  (haha)

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