Pineapple Passion

Hi all - following an email to Brenda a little while ago she very kindly sent me an invitation to join the group. I love string quilts and follow a couple of blogs where string quilts are the focus. I haven't been able to start a new string quilt at the moment because of hand problems  (having hand surgery next week) but as I explained to Brenda I have been working on a Pineapple quilt and she was happy for me to post this.  This quilt will  be nine blocks across and nine down and I sometimes wonder whether I should have gone smaller!!

I am putting it together six blocks at a time and deciding as I go along how to quilt it!  More blocks are pieced waiting to stitched into sets of six,  think it has taken me longer to work on this one as I am using heaps of strips from my stash of older fabrics, some 20years old, and the colours are softer than I like to use, I love brights and am a collector of Kaffe Fasset and company fabrics (in addition to heaps of other fabrics of course) but just had to use some of the stash from my early days of quilting. There were more black florals in my stash than I had realised so they are forming my borders.
Looking forward to being a part of the group and have ideas for making more quilts with strings when I have full use of my hand again, which I hope will only be a matter of three or four weeks. Looking forward to reading all the posts while I am out of action!

Green Lover

I love the color green and tend to purchase fabrics of varied shades of green. So it was easy to choose fabric strips for my latest string quilt.

I need to make 18 more rectangle blocks before I sew the rows together. After which, I'll make a piano key border from the leftover greens sprinkling in a few zebra and red fabrics.

Lotsa strings here

 

I thought I'd show you the string heart I made for Boston

 

And the string blocks I've been making, and collecting, for a local charity project.

So far, I've put together 77 blocks in one quilt, and it looks like

I'll have enough for at least three more.

 

Keep stringing along!

 

Finished!

 

I just finished the binding on this comfort quilt made from the half log cabin blocks sewn for our recent challenge.  This bright cheerful quilt will be donated to Doves, our local domestic violence shelter house.

 

Thank you to all who generously supported this project!

 

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Christmas String Quilt

I had made this top over a year ago but I thought it needed to be bigger.

I had plenty of scraps to make it larger.

And I even had some extra blocks made.

So now it just adding some to it.

I had done a tutorial on this quilt and if you would like the pattern just go here.

And when I'm done with this one I have another string top I started that I needs to be finished.

Isn't it wonderful.

Commissioned Strings

I had an order for a string quilt and when I was finished with this top...

I thought maybe I'd better give more of a subdued choice to the client.

So, I did this one...

He liked the first one better.  Both are at the quilter's now.  They will be so much better when quilted!

Thank you!!!

I received the final packages of blocks today for our Half Log Cabin Challenge.  Big thank-yous to to Sharon, Evelyn, and Brenda for supporting this project with their bright fun blocks! I'll be assembling these blocks into a cheerful comfort quilt for an adult at our domestic violence shelter. 

 

I also received a bonus package from Julianne, containing a happy assortment of 9-patch blocks.  These will also be used to make comfort quilts for kids at the Doves shelter.  I'll post photos here of all the quilts as they develop.

 

 

It warms my heart, at this time when we're all saddened by the senseless violence in Boston, to have received all these blocks.  Thank you all for your generosity and kindness!  

 

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Hi friends! 
 

Just a final reminder that our half log cabin challenge will be ending very soon.  I don't think any more blocks are on their way ... and I'm ready to start assembling the ones I've received.  If you're still planning to mail some blocks, please let me know asap.  Otherwise, I'll get busy with the ones I have.

 

Thanks ~ Jeanne 

 

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Amish Ice Cream Social

 

This is my first attempt at a string quilt, and won't be my last! I love to hand quilt but have never been a great piecer, strings have solved that problem for me!

More bright blocks!!

 

Woohoo -- a good mail day!  I received two more envelopes containing bright string blocks for our

 half log cabin challenge! 

 

Don't they all look wonderful together?  Happy thank-yous are being sent out to Em and Gwen >>>>>>>>>

 

And there's still plenty of time for more players to join us!  I won't start planning the quilt assembly until April, so if you're thinking about participating, send those blocks!

 

Thank you for this opportunity to make a comfort quilt that will brighten someone's day!

 

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