Flower Garden Quilt Blocks

I decided to post the rest of the blocks for you this morning. I am making them smaller and hope that when they are clicked on they will be the same size as the blocks posted beforehand.

You are so welcome to these patterns - I am glad to share with you. Another thing I will share one day is an old quilt that has quilt blocks my mother-in-law she embroidered when she was quite young and that was quilted by her mother-in-law. I will get it out and take some pictures one day soon. I think the blocks are of state flowers, but probably don't remember correctly since I haven't looked at it in a long time. Probably out of the Peoria paper, also. Enjoy!! (Click to enlarge)

More of the Flower Garden Patterns

I am happy that some of you are enjoying these old patterns from the Peoria paper back in 1931.

Nice to be able to share them with you. Would love to see anything that you make with them. Enjoy! (Click to enlarge)

The Flower Garden Quilt

Here are two more of the embroideries. (Click to enlarge) I just googled Ruby McKim's Flower Garden Quilt and came up with this website with pictures of an antique quilt made with these patterns. Thought you might want to take a peek.

http://cindysantiquequilts.com/dynapage/IP377.htm

Click on the link above to see the old quilt and pictures.

Some Very Old Flower Garden Embroidery Patterns

Looking through some old, old embroidery patterns, I found a set of embroidery patterns for a flower garden quilt that ran in the Peoria Journal-Transcript in 1930. These were probably from a box of things I bought at an auction. There are 24 out of 25 but still plenty if someone wanted to make an entire quilt. I have scanned the drawings and am posting three of them to see if anyone would be interested in seeing more. They might make good redwork or bluework or work with assorted colors.
There are some that are really pretty and others that are quite plain but together they would still make a pretty wallhanging or quilt when mixed with some scrappy blocks of one kind or another.

I love this lilac block. There is also one called canterbury bells that is really cool. If anyone likes them, I would be glad to keep posting two or three at a time. When you enlarge the picture, you can read the suggestions for sewing the blocks and making the quilt. (Click to enlarge)