A Pocket Full of Posies - now a finished flimsy

 My last post on April 28 had me about to put borders
on my latest AHIQ Quilt Along quilt.

After playing around for a while I went with the border treatment below

a single fabric border just didn't look right so after a bit of faffing
around I hit on the idea of splitting and inserting a thin strip
of the fabric used to make the centre collage.

The finished top is now 45 and 1/2" square.

I think this border treatment is definitely going to be used again on
a future quilt or quilts.

Maureen

Cool colours String quilt

 For the last few years I’ve been making one colour string blocks as part of the monthly RSC project. I realised I had so many and divided them into two piles, one Hot Colours, the other Cool Colours.

I recently finished the Cool Colours quilt and I love it.

The backing and blinding all came from stash. 

String Star Quilt

With an overflowing scrap bag last year, I decided to try a slightly different string quilt. 

String Star baby quilt

After dividing my strings into light and dark piles, the diamond foundations were cut from newsprint. Then a lot of sewing. And pressing. 

The outer background was created from isosceles triangles, again with a newsprint foundation, until an octagon was formed. Finally I sewed four right triangles for the corners to square it up and finished with a narrow border to stabilize all those strings. 

The quilting started with a sand dollar design in the center and spiraled outward. It's simple as long as you remember to spiral counterclockwise and keep the fabric from stretching on the bias.

Thanks to Maureen for reminding us to post on this blog, too. 

Ann

String Tulip Quilt QAL with AHIC:Improvisational Utility Quilts

 This quilt is my latest  for the QAL mentioned in my post title and you can see the
first post showing Ann's quilt at

https://adhocimprovquilts.blogspot.com/2021/01/ahiq-prompt-january-2021-electric.html

you will read that this was a prompt by Ann who blogs at

https://fretnotyourself.blogspot.com

This has been an enjoyable project, I still have borders to finish up
and I opted to make a collage in the centre rather than string pieced tulips.

Presently it's measuring 38" square, the string blocks were sewn onto paper
and great care was needed when removing the papers!  I used an extremely small
stitch which made the task much easier.

I'll post again when the borders are on.

Maureen

Dark Strings !

Unquilted, finished top

 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 !