Lost in String Land

I spent some quality time with my Bernina this week . . . 

stitching together a large pile of 1.5" strings.

(pre-shortened to 15" lengths)

After more quality time with my iron,

it was time to trim the foundation-free 

strip sets into twenty-four 8.5" squares.

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I LOVE STRINGS!

Quiltdivajulie

TINY STRING PIECING..

As you can see above here are the latest of my Rainbow Scrap Challenge 15 little Eye of God blocks.

Each "EYE"uses four little squares that have been string pieced on 3.5:" squares of old telephone book paper... My favorites this month are the two that use Toile in the centers...
I L O V E toile...

AND

You can see more about my project for the year over at my blog here

I hope you are all staying warm during this unusually cold and stormy Winter...
Is anyone else out there "Stringing Along"??? Earth to String Piecers.....
Hugs Julierose

STRING ALONG WITH ME....

When I joined RSC15 I decided that I wanted to make a string quilt in a rainbow of colors.
I LOVE the "Eye of God" pattern--and I decided to pick randomly in each month's color depending upon how many scraps and Strings I have....February is PINK  ................

AND JANUARY was blue:

I am keeping the center diagonals in orange-dark/ mauve as I have a lot of strings left in those colors.

Here is a closer view of some of those blues












AND

(Here you can see the darker mauve on the diagonal...)

Here are close ups of the pink colorways--all bits and pieces of leftovers and funny shaped pieces....
What fun!!

Some pretty old fabrics and some newer ones.........

Some are repeated and all just randomly picked out....

We will see how this goes together as the months go by...
I am so enjoying piecing these on little 3 1/2"  squares of old telephone book papers.

I will remove the papers just before sewing the blocks together in groups of four....

hugs to you all on this snowy and frigid Monday
Julierose, La Blageuse
P.S.  Hoping to see many more of your projects here this year.....;--)))

One More Finish!

This string quilt is sort of serendipity as I used up some stripe fabric that I just didn't know how to use.  When the idea hit of trying it in a string quilt, I could hardly wait to see it all come together.

I'm not one to measure each set as I am cutting the 10 inch squares into 9.5 inch blocks, so the corners seem a bit wonky.  I am a happy wonky quilter that loves the process and the excitement of sewing the blocks together.

This one is unusual for me as often I choose bright colors, but it's restful and I do love the grey with it.  The binding is some fabric I purchased for another quilt and didn't use.  It was absolute heaven to use.  I wish all fabric was so easy to sew into the binding.

This is the quilt I purchased the grey fabric for, not knowing how much I'd use.  It's a quilt I put together for a friend from pictures I found on the internet and I started with a pineapple paper pieced block in the center. 

by Pattilou
http://pattilousquilts.blogspot.com/

Blue for January

I just finished a string quilt I'd finally gotten around to.  I completed the top in January.  The strings were stored in a plastic shoe box.  They have been from two or three previous projects. 

I have to say, I always love the blues and purples and the turquoise is a bonus color for me.  Dang, I wish I had a place for this, but it will be a donation quilt.

 The quilting was free form and I found myself making little swirls where the corners met!  It's been awhile since I finished a quilt!

The top before quilting:

This was the last one I completed.  It was for my granddaughter and started with the strings left over from a project a year ago. 

Added by pattilou
http://pattilousquilts.blogspot.com/
 

Inspired by Carla

I was inspired by Carla's post yesterday to try some string pieced arcs.

I have a set of Double Wedding Ring templates I've been wanting to use,

so I traced the arcs on copy paper

and string pieced bits of hand dyed fabrics

from a goodie bag my mother gave me.

Here are four arcs waiting to be trimmed.

I've made 13 so far

and I've got lots of hand dyed strings and strips left to use.

Thanks for the inspiration!

I've been wondering if it is time to wrap up this blog,

but it seems we just had a long holiday break.

Thanks to all of you for stringing along.

We have room for more blog contributors,

so if you see some great string quilts out there,

ask their makers to check us out

and send me an email at strings[at]mts[dot]net to join.

Simple But Not

My first finish of the year! May I present Simple But Not!