Diamond strings continue to be my favourites

This diamond string quilt was made completely from stash. The diamond centres are a beige with tiny gold stars and the strings are everything I thought might go with brown. So beige, mushroom, gold, a touch of orange and of course light, dark and medium brown. It is a donation quilt for our Scrapbag group.  Joanne

String Tote

I made this tote last week before heading off to my Bible study class. You can read about it on my BLOG. Just scan down a few posts where I've written about the struggles and figuring I had to do.

Bull's Eye

 

This little quilt is the end of a run of string quilts that were stuck in my head and needed out....LOL

The blocks are one 4 1/2 inches and the quilt measures 42 inches square.....and no, I haven't been able to use up those scraps.....they just seem to multiply....sigh!

Our quilt is getting media attention!

Thanks again to all of you for participating in this string quilt.

You may recall we donated it to the Katie Cares Foundation.

Katie's mother Ruth was just on a local radio station being interviewed about the foundation,

and she mentioned an upcoming fundraiser, which includes raffling off our quilt.

For the record, it is the first prize, ahead of a pair of Winnipeg Jets hockey tickets.

She thinks it is beautiful -- and I know all of you do too--

and she's thrilled that 20 quilters from around the world made it.

The website doesn't have many details about the quilt

(check under fundraisers)

but there's a link to our blog on the Katie Cares facebook page.

Check that out, and be proud once again of the effort we all made together.

What started as a bit of a joke to prove that string quilts are beautiful

has grown into into a larger piece of good work that could potentially help many sick kids.

Thanks again!

Anyone want to make another quilt?

Let me know in the comments, and I'll issue another string challenge soon.

The Biggest Quilt Yet!

I've been doing string quilts for about 5 years now and so far this is the biggest quilt yet.  My youngest son recently bought a house and right away I knew he needed a bedspread.  I had plenty of fabrics from various African styled quilts and I wanted to make a string quilt for him.  He wanted it BIG as he doesn't want to contend with a bed skirt and all the "frilly stuff."

I think this quilt is big enough.

His birthday is tomorrow and my youngest turns 35!  Hope he likes it! 

A Diagonal Finish

All done and loving the results!!

Final measurements are

62 by 82 inches. I even managed to miter the piano key border. Yea!

Think Diagonal String

This 9 by 12 inch string is the first of many that I'm sewing up to use of some of those pesky useful scraps.

To see more of my progress, pop over to my blog, Ravelly1.

String borders for my Bento Box

I wanted to stop by today and show you what I've been working on lately.

Here's my version of a Bento Box and the scrappy string border I made.   The border blocks consist of 2" four patches and string blocks that were cut 1" wide.

I have more pictures and info on my blog if you'd  like to stop by and read about my journey and how I came to decide on my final design.

Have a great day.  

LindaKs

String-y colourwash quilt sewn together

I've sewn together the string-y colourwash strips

to make a top 48 by 60 inches.

I'm thinking about a lime green border, or not.

Check my blog to see the plans for the pieced back.

Scrappy String Ring Quilt Top Finish

I'm a couple days behind in posting this finish, but here it is.  The string ring (string Dresden) quilt top is done!  

Details and more pics can be found on my blog, here.  

Thanks to String Thing Along for the motivation to keep going with this project, and for the suggestions when I started putting the blocks together to finish it.  It was very helpful, and you all rock!