Two Flimsies - Ready for Quilting

Indoor flash photo

Here and There measures 53" wide x 72" long.

Outdoor late-day sunshine photo

Moving Right Along measures 46" wide x 60" long.

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Nancy of Blogging Near Philadelphia won the leftover strings giveaway.

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 And I've already started a new box of strings . . . 

Quiltdivajulie

String Quilts

 Thank you so much for the invitation to be part of this wonderful String Quilt blog. My name is Millie and I am a big fan of String quilts and can never get enough of my strings. I like to share a few of my String quilts. This is a String quilt I made with 30's reproduction fabrics.

 My blue String quilt which is one of my favorite String quilts.

 Red, white and blue String quilt.

 String quilt with pink sashings.

 String quilt with green sashings.

 

 String quilt with yellow border.

 

Happy string along,

Millie

 

String Giveaway

There's a string giveaway going on over at my blog --

Thursday, July 11

 and 

Friday, July 12

Winner will be announced Saturday, July 13.

Domestic U.S. shipping only.

If you're interested, hop on over to read the full post.

Quiltdivajulie

One String at a Time

Please double-click /super-size for greater fabric detail

Things have been very-extra-stressful at the office 

for the last few weeks.

When that happens, I turn to my string bins.

They energize and soothe me at the same time.

The overflowing box of strings was sorted into

smaller bins grouped by color family.

We all know strings can get messy in a big hurry.

This set-up helps me keep complete chaos at bay

but still lets me work freely.

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I had cut enough base blocks to make a single large quilt.

As you can see in the first photo above,

I've changed my mind and will make two less-large quilts.

The blocks will finish at 9" 

meaning one quilt will be 45" x 63"

and the other will be 36" x 45"

All in good time.

Quiltdivajulie

Pineapple Passion

Well I am still working slowly away on my pineapple which I posted about a few weeks ago - my progress has been slow due to hand surgery, but below five more blocks pinned to my design wall, not very straight I'm afraid, hopefully get on with number six today and then sew them up, that will make two sets of six and I will do QAYG six blocks at a time, I certainly can't tackle quilting a large quilt. I hope to put this in the city Guild show in November - fingers crossed. Still not decided how large it should be !!

I am pleased that I decided to use my older fabrics in this quilt they certainly give a softer old-fashoned feel.

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Free-Form Finish

This afternoon I applied the facings to the quilted wall hanging that I made at the Rayna Gillman workshop.  The workshop was based on her book Create Your Own Free-Form Quilts.    I enjoyed the workshop, enjoyed the process and will definitely make more quilts using her improv methods.

Next time I vow to be more crooked!

Improv R Us!!!

Oh boy, I just spent a weekend in an orgy of strips and strings.  Rayna Gillman taught a 2 day workshop here in Washington NC.  Here is what I made, just waiting for quilting.

Here are a couple other compositions of fellow students:

by Debby McCullough

by Katherine McNeese

by Charlotte Elks

Stringing without Foundation

I made these strings without muslin foundations and found it was much easier. First sew string sets about 10 inches square. Then sew pairs of them together like potholders (90 degree rotation of the strings.) The last step cutting the potholders on both diagonals. Each new block has strings on one half perpendicular to the other half. 

Watermelon strings

I made this quick string quilt using **interesting** fabrics from my guild's stash.  As soon as I get the binding stitched to the back, it will be turned in as a donation for our Comfort Quilts program.

 

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