The back of my GFG

My Grandmother's Flower Garden (GFG) quilt is my pride and joy. It's completely hand-pieced and I'm hand quilting it now. The reason I made it is to honor my grandmother, Gertrude Alice Borders Cole, who taught me my first quilting stitches. She made all of her quilts by hand, with templates rather than paper piecing, never using a quilt frame. She made at least one crazy quilt, which I wore to pieces, a double wedding ring, a bowtie, a flower garden, and more. Many quilts were made using her old dresses, as we had nothing to waste.
I pieced my top with just over 1000 pieces, and it went quite quickly. When it came to the backing, I wanted something modern, with plenty of color. Kaffe Fassett Roman Glass fit the bill, even though I'd never in my life deliberately chosen orange for anything.
Here are some pictures of the quilt in progress. I'm quilting it by straight lines through the flowers, making giant hexagon shapes, and doing a traditional path border in the green. Now that the weather has cooled off a bit here in Germany, I can actually stand to have it on my lap and work on it.