Showing posts with label Improv String. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Improv String. Show all posts

Friday, May 20, 2016

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

Sunday, February 7, 2016

Rail Fence Strings

Since I wasn't careful with the amount of strings cut for Chinese Coins, there were enough to make a second quilt, too. This used some of the strings discarded during the first quilt; it's much louder and more vibrant.

I also found some strings of triangles in the scrap bin. They were a failed experiement that worked beautifully here.
Improvistational Rail Fence from Strings
Using stripes was great fun! There were more striped fabrics than I originally saw. So many fabrics look completely different in small pieces.

I used two different striped fabrics in the binding... Because there wasn't enough of either to go all the way around. More on my blog here.

Enjoy the day,
Ann

Thursday, October 22, 2015

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


Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Improv String or Chinese Coins

We formed a small book study to work through The Improv Handbook for Modern Quilters by Sherri Wood. Her second "score" is strings. Here's my first top.

Improv String #1
We discovered we have much more to say and chose to spend another month on this topic. More details on my blog.

Enjoy the day!
Ann