Strings That Just Keep On Giving

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Magnolia Sewing Circle Makes String Quilts

At our annual Magnolia Guest Day Sewing I helped with the ‘string quilt’ project. We started this quilt last year. You can read about it HERE.

Alma, Tressa, and Pat

Some of the blocks ended up smaller, so we decided to make two separate quilts.

Thelma made 4 string blocks at home for the beginning of another “String quilt.” The same 4 blocks look different depending which color you turn toward the center.

   

Magnolia Sewing Circle Makes String Quilt Blocks

At our Magnolia Sewing Circle today I was in charge of this group of ladies making string blocks for a comforter top.

By the end of the day their 38 blocks made quite a show.

Anything Goes on its way to a new home

Last weekend I delivered our group quilt, Anything Goes.

Here my nieces are wrapped in it, demonstrating that it's a warm and cuddly quilt.

They liked the variety of fabrics and the bright colours and the fleece backing.

These two girls will deliver the quilt to the Katie Cares Foundation,

where it will either be passed on to a child with cancer,

or raffled off to make money for the foundation.

Either way, it's doing good.

Thanks to all of you who donated string blocks and demonstrated that anything goes together.

Anything Goes finished and ready to donate

Anything Goes

Machine pieced and quilted

Backed with fleece

56 by 64 inches

Made by members of String Thing Along blog.

Thanks to many of you, Anything Goes is pieced and quilted.

Our little experiment in using up all kinds of bits and pieces

in string blocks is lovely, just as I predicted.

You can see that the centre strips vary in size and intensity,

as do the other strips.

I strip pieced it onto a fleece backing,

quilted in the black diagonal strips

and brought the black fleece to the front to frame it.

I'm donating it to the Katie Cares Foundation in Winkler, Manitoba, CANADA.

Katie Reimer, 14, started the foundation after she was diagnosed with cancer.

She wanted to help other kids suffering from cancer by providing supplies and equipment to them.

I'm hoping this colourful throw-sized quilt will bring comfort to a child with cancer.

Sadly, Katie left this world on Saturday, but her dream to help other children lives on.

My teenage niece was friends with Katie for many years,

and I'm giving this to her to pass on to the foundation.

After my niece saw the quilt, she said:

"Katie would think this quilt is AWESOME."

Thanks to all of you for participating.

I linked this my post about this quilt to the Bloggers Quilt Festival

to spread the gospel of string quilts to the blogging world.

Kite Drama

 I was combing through my stash of books, magazines and quilt patterns when I ran across the pattern you see in the background. It was then and only then that I remembered I had purchased the special ruler to go with it. Great! I have an abundance of scraps and strips of fabrics.... this would be a perfect time to start another quilt.

 Several hours later, I had enough strips sewn together to begin the next step....

I cut seven sets of eight kites that are needed to make a block or at least the block that I was interested in.
This kite shape has so many possibilities and I was so excited to see all the various fabric placements.

The first block option is the great looking design and the beauty of it is I don't have to match seams or pin anything.

Block option 2 is this four pointed star that I placed on an audition tone-on-tone fabric.

I then realized that if I was going with option 1, it needed something to square the block up.  After a couple of frustration hours of drafting, I came up with a workable template which needed to be reversible.

This is how the kite looks with the template fabrics sewn on. I went with the scrappy look because I really need to get rid of use up that large basket of scraps.

And that brings me to my next dilemma...... LOL.... back to the old drafting paper..... to be continued.

I haven't seen an ugly one yet!

Helen sent me a picture of this block to share with you.

Nothing ugly here!