Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Making single colour string blocks

I am trying to use up the small stash of fabric I have here in NZ so I have been making some String blocks in a single colour. They are small, only 5" square as I had lots of scrap paper that I could cut this size from for my foundation papers.

Here they are:


I also made these blocks:

 
But, when I trimmed them I discovered I had made a mistake, somehow I had cut a few of the foundation papers around 4.75"!
 
As I didn't have many long strings I started to piece strings and the yellow block really doesn't work as the central string is pieced and doesn't stand out enough in the block.
So, these will be used in a different way.
I have two ideas:
They can either join other Orphan Blocks or I can use them to make a large Wonky Star block like these I made back in March 2014:
 


 
I made these for The Soy Amada quilts project, using Crumb blocks for the centres of the stars. I could do the same, using the five Mistake blocks. I have plenty of calico here in NZ so I could make these QAYG blocks easily.

A week or so ago I saw an NZ blog post about a QAYG blocks drive to make donation 12.5"square blocks for Kiwi kids.  As I am in NZ I thought this would be a good way to use these poor Mistake blocks. However.......... I can't remember which blog it was!!!  If anyone reading this blog post can let me know the blog name please email me or leave a comment on this post!  Thank you.  Otherwise I'll donate them to the Soy Amado Project.

Happy String piecing!



4 comments:

Linda Swanekamp said...

I just love the stars- especially the way you did the outline stitching. All the string pieced blocks you sewed are full of life. Thanks for sharing the inspiration photos.

Linda said...

Thanks you for your lovely comment, Linda. I so appreciated it!

Love Of Quilts said...

Happy Valentine's Day!

Ann said...

Star blocks look like such fun. Of course, I always like single color blocks.