tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42612142664966240552024-03-12T21:09:25.459-04:00It's a String ThingChallengeStaceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02803366627942760406noreply@blogger.comBlogger77125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4261214266496624055.post-23014062796877812022011-02-16T22:24:00.003-05:002011-05-31T00:25:02.998-04:00Heart Strings and a Mug Rug<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">I am still making string blocks. As part of the Rainbow Scrap Challenge over at <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">So Scrappy blog, </span>Angela designates a color of scraps that we are to use each month to help us use up our stash. The February scrap color is red, and since it is Valentine month I made this Heart Strings quilt. <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOw2pW48LGwpYVqMV0ag4uxLYckhLnUjnPK7ihC31MAQy18VDlP9JltMEotFRTwbp9oKJuaFcR8bUI0dt6Oi2IfynIQaMJ_egN0ignXxkZhAajsI17jR_cP6my7qOJC_FCz06wxwVaTCg/s1600/003.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="245" j6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOw2pW48LGwpYVqMV0ag4uxLYckhLnUjnPK7ihC31MAQy18VDlP9JltMEotFRTwbp9oKJuaFcR8bUI0dt6Oi2IfynIQaMJ_egN0ignXxkZhAajsI17jR_cP6my7qOJC_FCz06wxwVaTCg/s400/003.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>I am just loving these string blocks. I sew them on pages from a Scribble Pad that I buy at the dollar store. There are 60 sheets for $1, and the paper is like a porous recycled paper. So when I sew on it the paper perforates so there really isn't any tearing to get it off. It just lifts off. And, I sew string blocks chain piecing style so they sew up quickly. String block quilts are showing up all over blog land, and I am truly addicted to them. </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4261214266496624055.post-90876069267671916872011-01-22T23:32:00.000-05:002011-01-22T23:32:10.152-05:00Chevron String Quilt<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Since I'm the first one to post in 2011 - Happy New Year to all! I've been working on the Rainbow Scrap Challenge over at <a href="http://superscrappy.blogspot.com/">So Scrappy blog</a>. Angela designates a color or theme every month and has challenged us to make something whether it be a small project, a large one, or to create individual blocks to make a single quilt at the end of the year. This month's color is blue. I decided to use some of my strips and make a string quilt. I also did the <a href="http://www.quiltville.blogspot.com/">Bonnie Hunter Roll Roll Cotton Boll</a> mystery, and after I'd sewn all of those string blocks for the quilt, I kind of missed them so this is what I've been working on.<br />
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Usually I make my string blocks like the one on the left below. I use either phone book pages or a scribble pad from the dollar store and cut foundations. This isn't necessary to make a string block, but if I'm watching TV or a movie while sewing, I can soon lose track of how long my strips should be for a block. Then I draw a line on the diagonal so I can get that black strip centered to create a secondary design. To make the chevron blocks as shown above, I sew the strips straight up and down. <br />
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Beginning of quilt with strips sewn on the diagonal. </div>
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To make the blocks that chevron, you layer two blocks right sides together with the strips running the same direction.<br />
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Draw a line diagonally on the foundation paper. Sew 1/4" on both sides of the drawn line. </div>
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You can also turn every other row of these blocks upside down to create a different look. <br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4261214266496624055.post-84460746546473394832010-12-21T11:19:00.005-05:002010-12-21T11:23:58.867-05:00Warm Moda Homespuns<div style="text-align: center;">Burrr.....Baby it's Cold Outside!!!</div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">This is still one of my favorite ME sayings.</div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">This sweet little warm Moda Brushed cotton homespun string quilt is going to a sweet new baby boy.</div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">You can link back to see the post <a href="http://stringthingchallenge.blogspot.com/2010/01/ice-blue-strings.html">here</a></span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">I just finished quilting it and also made a super terrific monogrammed burp cloth to go along with it. This one goes to a sweet baby in the Soldier's Angeles Organization. I ♥ the backing on this one. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div>Here are the last tiny bits of my Spiderman fabric. Once again I have used the diamond string block. The diamond centres are black fabric with a spiderweb design. The blocks are 7" by 10" and there are 36 blocks in this quilt. It is a happy and bright one. Joanne H</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4261214266496624055.post-21415485293168050512010-10-31T12:07:00.001-04:002011-05-30T15:28:19.849-04:00Nothing Girly<div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Special request from a local Air Force family.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Nothing Too Girly </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a181e; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px;">I happened to find this <a href="http://alittlepinkinaworldofcamo.blogspot.com/">blog</a> while searching the Blanket Brigade website. I was looking for a new family for me to sent a quilt to. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a181e; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px;">This one brought tears to my eyes.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a181e; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px;"> Please read <a href="http://alittlepinkinaworldofcamo.blogspot.com/">Mrs. P's blog</a>. Please continue to make your donation quilts. Please keep donating them to any organization, foundation, hospital, charitable orgainzation, family, or someone that is dear to your heart. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a181e; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px;"><br />
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I made this string earlier this year when we first started the challenge and it has been waiting to have the borders sewn on. I finally got to it and made a strip pieced border from the leftover strings. I will be machinequilting this one soon I hope.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4261214266496624055.post-20493262302573604692010-09-07T11:16:00.002-04:002010-09-07T21:51:40.626-04:00It's a Green Thing<div style="text-align: center;">A beautiful quilt for a beautiful birthday girl.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Out of a terrible tragedy, emerges this bright lively string quilt. Without any details, my friend's daughter needed to come home from college for the weekend to spend time with her family. She needed comfort and needed something to do quick to feed her soul and help with some healing. So I taught them how to make a string quilt. This all happened last year. Well now mother and daughter are now hooked on quilting. Yipee!! That's a good thing. They finished the quilt and I sent it off the a long armer and I bound it for them. We both presented it to the birthday girl yesterday, September 6th for her 21st birthday.</div><br />
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Our quilt guild here takes donations of quilts for service projects, or they will take just the tops. There are a couple of meetings a month where volunteers gather and finish the quilts. Most of the time backing fabric and batting is donated. So I will either donate the quilt there to be finished and donated or I'll finish it and donate it to Project Linus. <br />
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Because I sewed my strings for this quilt on a fabric foundation, it weighs a ton!! I broke many a needle. But once I found the magic combination of thread, needle and tension it went like a dream. I also stopped rolling it to get it under the throat of my machine and tried puddling instead. That made such a difference and everything moved along just great. And what a lot of bobbins to wind. All in all, it was an awesome learning experience for me and I am much more confident with my machine. Now I have to practice making another design instead of spirals! I have someone special in mind for this quilt.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4261214266496624055.post-6953554222103810342010-07-10T14:15:00.002-04:002010-09-20T17:01:59.928-04:00Is Shabby still Chic?<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">I think so. </span> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.sewfarsewgoodquiltshop.com/item_620/Paris-Flea-Market-Snowball-Quilt-Kit.htm"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiif0vXgdfYL-OGMYn1fBBRryQDAiQxhGWIYKNGgLgQJeBDoSFQYnTIUzgBGO2KbLL0WF_i0S1vKR0myJ_mGuua8UbZC00cD0lLFnYWVSea-4BkOL2_KRERmQqEalzEUdOagZhPJ6uldPxz/s320/6+misc+fats+350.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Take a peek <a href="http://www.sewfarsewgoodquiltshop.com/category_21/Shabby-Cottage.htm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">here</span></a> at the shabby fabrics in our store.</div><br />
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Sorry I haven't posted as well as I should have. I have been super busy these last few weeks. I do have a really good excuse.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">My daughter got married. Yes, I cried but not too much.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Now that the flurry of activity is done and the two are married, I can get back to my quilting life. And I love it!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">I managed to make a little Kindle Cover and working on a small table runner with one of my all time favorite fabric collections <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">Paris Flea Market by Moda. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><br />
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It has become such a lonely little place.
Come on back. Show us some more wonderful string quilts!
I would show you one today myself, except I haven't finished anything new either.
Hope all of your sewing machines are in proper working order and your fabric stashes are fat!
TTFN, RanaUnknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4261214266496624055.post-69954981939730737972010-06-04T14:37:00.000-04:002010-06-04T14:37:44.003-04:00String Challenge #2 ~ Patriotic String Quilt<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is Rita and this is my second string quilt. I started this quilt way back in March, and I thought Memorial Day weekend was a good time to finish it up. It measures 52 x 66 inches so it's a fairly good size. I’ll be donating this quilt to the Quilts of Valor program.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It all began with a pile of strings in patriotic fabrics that I’ve had for years. I still have a bunch left so I’ll be making another string quilt to use them all up … finally! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Seems everyone enjoys making these string quilts as much as I do. I just love seeing all the projects ... they're all so inspiring! </span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4261214266496624055.post-71028285289022780662010-06-02T00:33:00.002-04:002010-06-02T00:40:37.228-04:00Roman StripesThis is Rana and I have another little quilt photo for you. This time I thought I would try a liberated Roman Stripes in pastel colors. It is baby sized and heavily quilted, as you can tell!
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<div>You can tell by the poor quality of the picture that I am a rank amateur, but it's all I've got! This is my FIRST string quilt, and I learned a lot! Lessons learned: (1) center strip is all-important! (so don't use dull gold and brown next time...) (2) save some bigger strips for the corners. (3) Figure out how to make the blocks so that they don't peak at the intersections.</div>
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<div>I quilted it diagonally across the grain, plus in the ditch. Is that what caused the peaking? I did do FMQ feathers in the border, which I was pleased with.</div>
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<div>All in all, I really enjoyed making this quilt, and donated it to the local Police Department. That is our guild's charity of choice this year. They use the quilts when they remove children from their homes.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4261214266496624055.post-86715290256307423222010-05-25T12:23:00.003-04:002010-05-25T12:28:51.899-04:00Here is my next string challenge quilt. It is 48" by 60". Each small segment is cut 6 1/2". To make the block, draw a line on the diagonal of the base piece, place a light and a dark string right sides together and stitch them to the base on that diagonal. Then build up each side with either lights or darks. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7bG7uUqrF6KEqNVciFYwBUD1xBJ7p4aGsSoYG9X5inZJI7c_8AFxJZtiZF_xchue1qxgaIiF9329Jt9R5TesJdeYI22jWkVYspHaYfDf1TWoHuHY5B2kf5YQuNlIV4zXlTXja4XNrG1I/s1600/maystring.jpeg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 240px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5475244394354562178" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7bG7uUqrF6KEqNVciFYwBUD1xBJ7p4aGsSoYG9X5inZJI7c_8AFxJZtiZF_xchue1qxgaIiF9329Jt9R5TesJdeYI22jWkVYspHaYfDf1TWoHuHY5B2kf5YQuNlIV4zXlTXja4XNrG1I/s320/maystring.jpeg" /></a> Joanne H
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This is the tail end of the mauve fabrics that I own. Some are new Robin Pandolph's and Sandy Gervis' and some are old. There are even some scraps from the first curtains I ever made back in 1990. The very thought of mauve curtains, yikes!! But, they were cute in their day. And, now instead of decorating windows these fabrics will be warming babies. That's a nice little transition.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4261214266496624055.post-75719524458347326982010-05-02T20:06:00.005-04:002010-05-02T20:21:41.072-04:00My Inspiration String<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RghAcjqo_wc/S94T65lEvbI/AAAAAAAAAf0/ClY8XakrD3o/s1600/001.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RghAcjqo_wc/S94T65lEvbI/AAAAAAAAAf0/ClY8XakrD3o/s320/001.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5466828900284022194" /></a>
I made this string quilt to re-create the quilt top that a friend of mine had made. Check out my blog for the details
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<div>Stacey's pink strings inspired me to try some of my own. Again the diamonds, white centres with pink and pink and white strings. Base was 7" by 10". This was donated to my local Scrapbagger group and will find a home as needed this year. Joanne H</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4261214266496624055.post-87356709922398599432010-04-27T17:51:00.004-04:002010-05-24T10:05:24.203-04:00Perfect Time for a Give-Away<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM7Hn4aaqSiB2hC4US9aoTT5kuU4bkCbQhFfkT249UAMSzeTgMLIfvU4zvJ63swObsSEe-kUT4MvNIzOxXbplo-SlN3KQpU3a1OFfwr6orxlwlUlfi4U4nIWLsXhRlOJt3PhDEHK1TO0G5/s1600/baby+snowball+freebies+giveway.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM7Hn4aaqSiB2hC4US9aoTT5kuU4bkCbQhFfkT249UAMSzeTgMLIfvU4zvJ63swObsSEe-kUT4MvNIzOxXbplo-SlN3KQpU3a1OFfwr6orxlwlUlfi4U4nIWLsXhRlOJt3PhDEHK1TO0G5/s400/baby+snowball+freebies+giveway.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Here is a set of 4 machine embroidered 6 1/2 inch snowball blocks. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Get creative and let's see what you can do with them. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Sweet designs from <a href="http://www.allsortsembdesigns.com/">Hatched in Africa</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://justalittlezizzy.blogspot.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e06666;">Zizzybob is the Winner!</span></a></span></div>Staceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02803366627942760406noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4261214266496624055.post-45036274031388630222010-04-25T11:37:00.003-04:002010-04-25T16:40:39.592-04:00Yet another diamond string, beige diamonds this time<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy0h-uOA7s-f6ehXysoo8HmoLOqabgDKA0f2jZGz2QtukajpzscPvR2eMwLVZ3rQLgYg3THrjaPWGv95WnP_vVtwx81vPxXI8INSlPEVPm2QJHCQ69RtdQFb9y6-cxVl_sDm_XFOmVdYk/s1600/April+quilts+3%264+003.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464100412930984914" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy0h-uOA7s-f6ehXysoo8HmoLOqabgDKA0f2jZGz2QtukajpzscPvR2eMwLVZ3rQLgYg3THrjaPWGv95WnP_vVtwx81vPxXI8INSlPEVPm2QJHCQ69RtdQFb9y6-cxVl_sDm_XFOmVdYk/s320/April+quilts+3%264+003.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 240px;" /></a> <br />
<div>This quilt has more of a country colour look. The blocks started at 7" by 10". A friend was the source of the scraps. Joanne H</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5