I'm Still Here . . .

Like so many others,

it has been ages since I've posted here.

I cut the fabrics above 

into lots of skinny strips

to make a spiderweb quilt.

But that plan fell by the wayside.

Instead I'm going to use the colorful strings/strips

to piece scrappy strata by color groups

as part of the 2020 Rainbow Scrap Challenge.

January's colors are light and bright greens.

I've pulled those from the large box

and plan to start piecing strata very soon.

My goal is to share each set of strata

here at the end of that month.

One seam at a time!

Quiltdivajulie

Last Year's Roses

I finished this quilt last year, posted it on my other blog but never added it here. Sorry.

Why would I call it a string quilt? The background is composed of skinny to slightly stubby strings and scraps. After making several with a wider range of values I wanted one that could be a background for appliqué. 

And then I didn't really appliqué much. Funny how adroitly I weasel out of that task.

Chinese Coins with Roses quilt

The leaves and stems are machine appliquéd but the roses were... I don't know... free-hand/crazy/log cabin pieced. When they were large enough I added corners of blue fabric or small sets of Coins to allow me to insert them into single or double columns of the background. Does that make sense?

Rose detail

The finished top aged in my closet for about a year before I finally hauled it out to quilt. At least the roses didn't fade. I have a bad habit of setting tops aside until they are way out of date/out of style. I guess you could say I'm out of my mind. 

Anyway, it's a cute top that used lots of leftovers and strings with only a bit of fabric pulled from my stash for the stems and leaves. That was about a yard. And it was old/vintage fabric. And it's all gone now, too. So not much more work than my usual string quilts. 

Happy New Year to all. 
Ann