Scrappy Coins

54" x 82"

The sashing is a chintz curtain found at a thrift store.   The scraps are cut up shirt, pants and cloth napkins.

It was fun to quilt, with different designs in each piece.

A Work In Progress

I got a String X quilt top put together last week, and now I'm stumped as to what to use for the border.  Nothing I have seems to "go" very well.

please excuse the crummy photo

I've been working on these blocks off and on for a few years, then finally decided that A. I was tired of working with these strings, as I've been using these for years and B. I had enough blocks to make a charity quilt the size that my guild likes.  It does need some border to bring it up to the right size.  I'd like to get this finished before too long.  I'm debating whether or not to do a simple pieced border.  (I still  have some more squares of the background fabric that I could use.)

If anyone has any suggestions for border ideas, I'd really appreciate it!  Thanks!

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.

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

Another version of anything goes

 

I've had these blocks for several years,

planning to make a red stripe string quilt from it.

But they sat in my drawer for a long time

and at one point, when we were working on the group quilt here

I thought I would incorporate them.

But I found the colours too dull,

and all of you were so generous, I didn't need them.

In fact, I didn't use up some of the blocks I made.

Fast forward to the beginning of October

when life was making me crazy

and I needed to sew something.

I took out these blocks again, sewed them together,

and found some fabric in my stash for the borders.

Now it measures 46 by 60 inches,

big enough for a donation to the children's hospital

or to a young friend needing a bit of comfort.

 

Since all these blocks were sewn on foundations,

I'm backing it with fleece, but not putting in batting.

 

 

AUTUMN WINDS --A MEMORY QUILT

Here is my partially string pieced Autumn Winds quilt....the side blocks were my

very first attempt at the "Eye of God" block string work.  I thought it apropos to use for the Change of Seasons.....

(Sorry for the crooked photo--it was windy outside my deck!!)...I used some of my first attempts at hand dying fabric and a whole lot of leafy fabrics which I collected after attending a knitting retreat with a good friend on Killington Mountain; the trees just about shouted with vibrant color that year and they inspired me to make this quilt--the 3rd quilt I ever tried.

Here are a couple more including that wonderful brown grasses fabric. And, that wonderful little blackbird on red (I wish I had more of that one!!)

This quilt took about a year to make; I just was flying by the seat of my pants--

no plan:  make some blocks and see how to fit them together.  I hand-tied it with brown embroidery thread............

Altho' today, I would probably done it differently, I cherish this quilt for the wonderful memories it evokes....hugs, Julierose, La Blageuse

Inspired by Rayna Gillman

This is the fourth free-form strips project I have made following the two day workshop with Rayna last June.  Still having fun, this one is called "Windows and Door".

Note from Brenda: Rayna Gillman is also a contributor on this blog

and she posted recently here.

My first finished string top!

I finished this a few weeks ago.  I love it!! Although after sharing it, I realized I need to add another row to the sides! it's too long for the width!

Toddler Quilt with Strings

I found the last of the red and string blocks - enough to make a toddler quilt. These seem to have more blue strings than the previous one but the setting is the same.

Ann

using up those strips

Help!! I am being overrun by strips of all sizes, lengths, widths, colors -- you get the picture.  I'm known for my strip-pieced work, but it's been years since I have cut pieces of newspaper and started sewing old fashioned string blocks.  

Last week in a fit of insanity, I posted these four on my blog, when Brenda kindly invited me to post them.  They're sitting on the design wall till I finish stitching another piece I've made from a UFO block, but here they are so far - not sewn together, of course. Perfect baby quilt fodder!

When I sew string blocks I don't pay any attention to how wide or what color the strips are.  I mostly pick up blindly and just sew. It's how I learned to do it eons ago from a family friend -- and it always ends up looking great.  Some day I'm going to limit the color families I use and see what happens. Might be interesting...