String quilts

  How is your week going?I had lots of fun with my strings. I finished and washed the Butterfly String quilt.

I love washed crinkled quilts. The picture below is before I washed it.

Quilt hot out of the dryer.

 

   I quilted my blue, yellow and green string quilt. I am so happy with how the quilting turned out.

 Blue and yellow scrappy backing.

Happy quilting,

Millie

Another version of anything goes

 

I've had these blocks for several years,

planning to make a red stripe string quilt from it.

But they sat in my drawer for a long time

and at one point, when we were working on the group quilt here

I thought I would incorporate them.

But I found the colours too dull,

and all of you were so generous, I didn't need them.

In fact, I didn't use up some of the blocks I made.

Fast forward to the beginning of October

when life was making me crazy

and I needed to sew something.

I took out these blocks again, sewed them together,

and found some fabric in my stash for the borders.

Now it measures 46 by 60 inches,

big enough for a donation to the children's hospital

or to a young friend needing a bit of comfort.

 

Since all these blocks were sewn on foundations,

I'm backing it with fleece, but not putting in batting.

 

 

AUTUMN WINDS --A MEMORY QUILT

Here is my partially string pieced Autumn Winds quilt....the side blocks were my

very first attempt at the "Eye of God" block string work.  I thought it apropos to use for the Change of Seasons.....

(Sorry for the crooked photo--it was windy outside my deck!!)...I used some of my first attempts at hand dying fabric and a whole lot of leafy fabrics which I collected after attending a knitting retreat with a good friend on Killington Mountain; the trees just about shouted with vibrant color that year and they inspired me to make this quilt--the 3rd quilt I ever tried.

Here are a couple more including that wonderful brown grasses fabric. And, that wonderful little blackbird on red (I wish I had more of that one!!)

This quilt took about a year to make; I just was flying by the seat of my pants--

no plan:  make some blocks and see how to fit them together.  I hand-tied it with brown embroidery thread............

Altho' today, I would probably done it differently, I cherish this quilt for the wonderful memories it evokes....hugs, Julierose, La Blageuse

Inspired by Rayna Gillman

This is the fourth free-form strips project I have made following the two day workshop with Rayna last June.  Still having fun, this one is called "Windows and Door".

Note from Brenda: Rayna Gillman is also a contributor on this blog

and she posted recently here.