The first challenge for season 5 is String Along With Me. I love the look of string quilts and even made a string pillowcase as a challenge project last year.
I had a stack of fabrics sitting on my cut space from a bee block so I decided to stick with that color pallet and jumped right in. I cut 1.5" and 2" strips off of 15 different fabrics and went to town randomly sewing them together, making sure only not to put two of the same fabrics next to each other. I chopped up my sewn strips and then made a layout that was a little different than the traditional string quilt.
The backing a a fun green and blue polka-dot from my stash. I am making a goal to make all my PQ challenge projects from my stash.
Modern Strings
52" x 52"
Cotton batting
mixture of prints from my stash.
Made in Lanoka Harbor, NJ
Carolyn, that is really cute! I love string blocks too but haven't done anything with the blocks. I love pineapple blocks too.
ReplyDeleteI am soooo happy to get to see your work again this year in Project Quilting ! I really loved the quilt you did for this challenge ! I had thought of using all my stips for one large piece and ended up doing 3 smaller ones instead LOL tho only 1 got finished in time, 2 got finished a few hours later, and the other , well, thats still waiting haha !
ReplyDeleteYou are incredible! Did you really make this in just one week? It's fantastic!
ReplyDeleteThis is great! I just love how the zig zag and chevron fabric add such great dimension and movement to your sting quilt! Fabulous as always!
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