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I keep hoping to see new posts on this blog, so I've decided that today I'll be the change that I want to see ! Inspired by Kate, of 'The Last Homely House' YouTube channel, I threw together a small string quilt.
I liked the idea of making it two distinctly different sets of values of squares on-point. So I used my dark browns, greens, blues, reds, and black strips........and then countered them with brights of all colors.I really wanted the dark to be the main foundation, so I made sure that I had six whole 'squares' showing of the dark. Turns out I had just as many of the brights, I guess.
Anyway, I love it, and it now resides on my kitchen table.If I am not mistaken, I used a Pellon all-natural cotton for the batting, and it is thicker than my usual Fairfield 80/20 battings.
Machine-pieced onto newspaper squares measuring 6 1/2 inches. Lime green flannel for backing, and machine-quilted, all on my 1953 Singer 15-91 domestic sewing machine. I hope you like it, and I especially hope that this gets the ball rolling with more string quilts to inspire us all !
10 comments:
Wow, that is a beauty, thank you for sharing!
Congratulations on this beautiful finish. It's the first time I see a string quilt made with only darks and brights. I like it! ;^)
your darkest darks really make your brights pop!! also like that your dark squares a bigger than your brights
You made me laugh about being the change you want to see! Love your darks and lights. I do believe you have inspired me!
I have 215 string blocks, and now, I know what else I need to do to use them. Thank you.
Lovely string quilt. Beautiful!!!
Funny I almost didn't read the post as I am not a fan of dark colors, well I am glad it did. I LOVE making string blocks and with the bright color in there I love it. It will for sure go on my to do list. Hope mind turns out 1/2 as good as yours.
Love your dark/lights blocks, something I've been thinking about. I made a quilt for a friend last year and wondered about sharing somewhere. What are the rules about sharing on this site?
What a lovely string quilt!
I have been working with my Dumpster Diving quilts (long "strings" made up of lots of 1-3" segments - but I haven't posted any of them over here because they really aren't "strings" in the traditional sense of the term. I really like the quilt in this post!
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