CAMP Baby Quilt

 No one's posted here for a while so I thought I'd add this since it's sort of a string quilt. This is probably the sixth baby quilt I've made in this style. Just find a four-letter-word and go. The words are made of Chinese Coin sets; at least that's how I think of them.

Our niece chose an adorable wallpaper/mural for the baby's room that has a row of  stylized deer, fox, bear, and rabbit in approximately these colors. 

CAMP baby quilt

There are quite a few browns in my stash but I had to work to soften them. Now the C looks like weathered wood.

More information on my blog.

Ann

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. 

Still Part of The String Thing Gang

In the fall of 2016 I attended AQS Chattanooga Quilt Week

and made an evening side trip to visit SPOOL.

(a truly marvelous LQS that was closed by the co-owners

so they could move on to other aspects of the quilting universe)

These two bundles of Cherrywood fabrics came home with me -- 

and since then I've used them to virtually design 

at least a few dozen (!) different kinds of quilt tops.

As part of my preparation for Lynette's 18 in 2018 challenge,

I chose to listen to my heart and go with some sort of string quilt.

This one by Amanda Jean Nyberg is named Slopes

and comes from her latest book No Scrap Left Behind.

I've liked the design since the first time I saw it.

Time to quit pondering and start cutting/sewing!

Here is a work in progress photo

showing the 25 inset strip blocks in the foreground

and the remaining 56 blocks sorted using my plate system.

(I also added a splash of plaids and near-solids to the ten Cherrywoods)

In this photo all 80 blocks has been sewn together

with about 1/3 of them pressed.

At some point this quilt's name made itself known.

Groundhog Day

(could that have been influenced by the repetitive - but oh so soothing - 

stitching together of string after string after string?)

CLICK HERE to see how these blocks look now on the design wall!

Quiltdivajulie

Kaleidoscope String Quilt

It's just been gifted to a charming new baby. Her parents love the bright, cheerful colors of balloon launches. So...

Suhavi's Stars - a spiderweb quilt

I pulled these scrap triangles to make stars. After several arrangements, they looked best on the diagonal.

Stars for the spiderweb scrap quilt

Then it simply needed leftover strings - loads of them.

More information about the quilting here and the backing and binding here.

Quilt Details

• Size: 40" x 40"
• Pattern: Spiderweb
• Batting: Mountain Mist Cream Rose 100% cotton
• Thread: Gutermann peach cotton
• Quilting: Walking foot

Enjoy the day, Ann

Strings That Just Keep On Giving

Come on over to my blog 

and read about these boxes of strings -

CLICK HERE

Yellow and White Strings

I finished this baby quilt while visiting Boston. Quilted on my daughter's featherweight.

Yellow and white string baby quilt

At New Year's I sewed all my string scraps into 8.5" blocks by color. These are all the yellows and most of the white. Edit: The quilt finished about 41" square.

Detail of quilting and binding.

Ann

Red and Black Strings

Carla showed us her string quilt at a recent PTQ meeting.

String-y Things Going On

It all started with a string stash I've been 

accumulating for the last year or so.

These three boxes plus another larger box with . . . 

these pinks, oranges, and reds.

You can read the whole story over on my blog,

but this project has moved itself to the top of my list.

First there were these blocks . . .

And then THIS happened.

CLICK HERE to see what happened next.

Quiltdivajulie

String quilt

I finished a string quilt this week.

String quilts are my favorite kind of quilt!

These were hand me down scraps.

Someone else's trash became MY TREASURE!

More about this quilt on my blog here

Boxed Strings Cornerstones

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.

   

Here and There

Introducing Here and There,

the finally-finished second string quilt from last year.

That's the Mississippi River in the background.

(Photos taken at Mud Island River Park in Memphis)

This is the other string quilt named Moving Right Along.

It was gifted to an expectant grandmother earlier this year.

(Her first granddaughter is due this month)

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You can read more about these two on my blog.

There are more strings in the near future!!

Quiltdivajulie

String quilts

  How is your week going?I had lots of fun with my strings. I finished and washed the Butterfly String quilt.

I love washed crinkled quilts. The picture below is before I washed it.

Quilt hot out of the dryer.

 

   I quilted my blue, yellow and green string quilt. I am so happy with how the quilting turned out.

 Blue and yellow scrappy backing.

Happy quilting,

Millie