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PagesHomeUFOs 20212021 Quilt Finishes2020 Quilt Finishes2019 Quilt Finishes2018 Quilt Finishes2017 Quilt Finishes2016 Quilt Finishes2015 Quilt FinishesVintage Inspiration QuiltsString Quilts Tuesday, October 26, 2021 Kaleidoscope of Strings

String Kaleidoscope60 x 80It's a flimsy!
This is quilt top #6 from my BIG 19x16x13 box of strings. I blogged about the box and sewing and cutting the wedges for this quilt back on October 12.
I chose a red kind of textured looking fabric for the background and stayed with a primary color scheme and chose yellow and blue for the block corners. I wanted to use all polka dots and stripes for the corners but I didn't have that many polka dots or stripes in blue or yellow so made do with what I had on hand in the scrap bins.


I'll probably big stitch hand quilt with black perle cotton through the red sections and am thinking of sewing in red buttons where the four corners of the blocks meet. I have a big collection of buttons so might as well use some.
I probably should not have included any red solids in the wedges but what is done is done. I'm thinking they won't look so weird after the quilting is added.
My question now is - do you think this needs a border? A piano key type border made of strings? I usually don't add borders to my quilts for a number of reasons but I do have some strings left.My inspiration photo has the type of border I'm thinking...just THINKING...about. I really don't want to make a border. What do you think? Should I? I'm kind of tired of playing in the strings right now.
By the way, my inspiration photo is from the book Material Obsession 2 and the pattern is by Kathy Doughty. I have the book but did not follow her pattern instructions or even look at them. I've made several different kaleidoscope quilts and so just did my own thing.

Well, I did mention I'm tired of working with my strings now. I did reduce the colored strings to one medium flat rate box of shorter strings and...
...one large flat rate box of longer strings. I was thinking of making a coin quilt with what is left. But then I thought if I was going to make a coin quilt I might as well add borders to the kaleidoscope quilt since that would be like making a coin quilt. And then, like I said...I'm tired of playing with strings for now.
To border or not to border....that is the question.

Posted byCathyatTuesday, October 26, 202114 comments: Labels:kaleidoscope blocks,scraps,strings Monday, October 25, 2021 Wonky Log Cabin

Wonky Log Cabin45 x 54It's a flimsy!
Made with shorter strings it is string quilt top #5 to come out of my big box of strings.
I used three inch red squares for the centers. Why? Because I had those pieces left over from making the Crossed String Topstill on my cutting mat so it seemed to be a good idea to use them up. I almost had enough but had to dig a red solid scrap out of the box of red scraps so I'd have 30 squares.
I decided to make 9 inch blocks with half in light strings and the other half bright/dark strings. Then I used the Fields and Furrows layout.

Posted byCathyatMonday, October 25, 20218 comments: Labels:fields and furrows,scraps,short strings,wonky log cabin Sunday, October 24, 2021 Valued Tops

Last year I cleaned out my 2.5 and 3.5 width scrap bins. One of the things I did when clearing the bins was cut 2.5 x 3.5 pieces. I've also been cutting those pieces since then whenever I have scraps left over from other projects. They have been collecting in a shoe box and the box was full so I thought I should do something with them. Now I have about 10 little rectangles left in the shoe box and I'm not sure if I should start over again and fill the box or move on to something else.
This one is 63 x 76. I intended for it to be 60 x 80 but somewhere along the line it ended up in other dimensions. I webbed pieces together from the center out on each side and ended up with 21 instead of 20 pieces across. No worries. It's all good.
For this one I took inspiration from Valued Quilt at Kitchen Table Quilting.
Pieces are sorted into light, medium light, medium, medium dark and dark stacks. You know...I really had a problem figuring out the value of some of these little pieces so I sorted into three categories (light, medium, dark) and then after that I figured out medium lights and medium darks. And really I had fun looking at all the fabrics while I was sorting.
I'm thinking I might just fill that little shoebox again with little rectangles 2.5 x 3.5 and make the other version of this that moves from dark scraps in the center out to lights at top and bottom.
This one is 63 x 80 and the reason I started cutting the little 2.5 x 3.5 pieces. I was inspired by a scrap quilt at Blue Elephant Stitches.
For this one I just had to sort light...
...medium...
...dark.
I cut, sorted and sewed and now I have a couple of "value added" tops!
(Now back to my string box).
Oh Scrap! at Quilting is More Fun than Housework.

Posted byCathyatSunday, October 24, 202115 comments: Labels:scraps Saturday, October 23, 2021 Chips

I guess I forgot what day this is - Rainbow Scrap Challenge ScrapHappy Saturday.
I 've mostly been working on my box of strings but I did make a few Chips this week. I've been using jewel tones and black on whites to make these blocks. I now have 75 and my target is 140 so I guess this project will carry on into 2022.
Free pattern by Alison Glass

Posted byCathyatSaturday, October 23, 20214 comments: Labels:chips,scraps Thursday, October 21, 2021 And Yet Another String Quilt Top

String Quilt Top #4 from what used to be a BIG box of strings a couple weeks ago.
This is the lap quilt sized quilt (51 x 68) made with a tutorial from a June 2017 Quilt Along at Crazy Mom's Quilts.
This one takes a lot of background fabric and doesn't really use up all that many strings.
I thought the background fabric would overwhelm the strings (quick! Look away if busy quilts are hard on your eyes) but I can still make out some fun strings with hearts, hummingbirds...
...birds, dogs, ladies at a tea party...
For this quilt I didn't follow the instructions at Crazy Mom's quilts. At this point in my string usage I still had a lot of long strings to use so I cut a lot of 9.5 inch lengths off of those strings. I sewed together those 9.5 inch strings along the length until I had a long sheet of them. Then I cut them into 8.5 inch sections. I trimmed each of those 8.5 x 9.5 inch sections to be 8.5 x 9 and then cut that section in half so I ended up with two almost identical 4.5 x 8.5 pieces. I was able to make the 48 string pieces for the quilt in no time and was able to use some of the longer strings instead of sewing lots of shorter strings together.
...ladies at a tea party, butterflies...

This is string quilt #4 from a box of strings. I probably have a couple more. You saw me cutting wedges for a kaleidoscope string quilt I've been working on and I have at least one more string quilt after that.
Other string quilt tops from the big box:
#1 - String Stars
#2 - Crossed
#3 - Heartstrings


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Posted byCathyatThursday, October 21, 20219 comments: Labels:scraps,strings Wednesday, October 20, 2021 String Quilt Top #3

Inspired by Heartstring Quilts
40 x 60
I say "inspired" because I make my blocks a different size (10.5 inches unfinished) and I use newspaper for the foundations not fabric. But I have used a consistent 2 inch in width center string like the Heartstring quilts.
This is the third string quilt to come out of the giant box of strings I started with a few weeks ago.
I used some of the long strings with novelty prints.
I should have been a little more careful about center string placement because it doesn't line up quite right in a couple of places. But I don't think most children would care if I didn't color inside the lines. There's a lot of other things to look at in the quilt than unmatched centers. It's a string quilt!!!

And on to the next!

Posted byCathyatWednesday, October 20, 202115 comments: Labels:heartstrings,scraps,strings Tuesday, October 19, 2021 Crossed - A New String Top!

Crossed57 x 76
Tutorial for the Crossed block can be found at The Long Thread.
I finished one with a white background last month.

This is the second top to come out of this year's box of strings.
The first top, in case you missed it, was a String Star.
When I have a big box of strings I start making tops that will use the longest strings and then I gradually make tops that use shorter and shorter strings.
Really, anything goes when I make a string top. Most of these pieces are from quilt back trimmings or yardage ends. All colors, all widths mix and mingle and work together. Diversity.
Actually this is a lot like how I made quilts when I first started out. In the old days which were my younger days I never knew people actually bought fabric just to make quilts. I made clothes or curtains or pillowcases when I bought fabric. Then leftover scraps or old clothes went into making a quilt. I still have one of those old quilts I made in the 70s and one of my sisters has one as well. And I have the shirt I made of one of the fabrics to match!
And on to the next! I wonder how many more string quilts are in that box of strings.

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