Grandma's Garden
Music: "My Wild Irish Rose", circa 1899

Pattern:
Grandma's Garden

Quilt Size
(Before border and binding)
queeen size
88" x 102"

Fabric Source,
Quantity, & Date Purchased
Top/Quilt
       Begun:    01/11/06
Completed:    04/02/06

Quilting
and/or
Special
Effects

Print (fussy cut)		 Timeless Treasures; Cottage Charm
Style HW8169; C8169-WHI
3 yds.@$9.49/yd. less 10%=$25.62
QuiltWorks NW; 07/13/05		 Expressing the creativity of
Judy Irish
Most fabrics are from Timeless Treasures; Collection is Cottage Charm by Helen Weinman.
Instuctor:
Roxanne Carter
(425) 742-6318
[email protected]		 http://www2.martingale.pub.com Roxanne has written a number of books for Martingale,Inc.
(That Patchwork Place ®)
Pattern by Roxanne Carter utilizing Cottage Charm fabrics by Timeless Treasures.
Being quilted by 04/26/06. Then embellished with hundreds of jewels over organza blocks.
Finished version Back quilted pattern *using colored bobbins)
Unquilted detail Quilted detail (with jewels)
"Grandma's Garden"
(text with entry to National Rose Society Quilt Show)		   Anna Rosalie Jakab Gergely
Wild roses lined the dirt/gravel roads connecting one farm to another in rural Southern Iowa. In the early 1940's following the premature decease of my parents in a tornado, I lived with my paternal grandmother in this setting
By a treadle sewing machine and kerosene lantern, I marveled as she patiently fashioned quilts of feed sacks and discarded clothing. Of course, we had feather beds!
Utilizing today's fabrics, organza and jewels recapture the memory of those early-morning, dew-kissed roses in grandma's garden.
Our garden in Washington State was incomplete without a wild rose from grandma's garden. I persuaded a relative still occupying the family homestead to send me two cuttings which now have flourished in an honored location in our collection of roses. "Grandma's Garden" is a quilted tribute to the memory of my late grandmother, Anna Rosalie Jakab Gergely (b. August 23, 1867/High Mysla, Austria-Hungary; d. August 19, 1961/Eddyville, IA).
 		 
   
   
Grandma would be pleased that the quilt was "best in class" and voted the "show favorite" by the convention attendees.  
   

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