Project Quilting Challenge 1 - Strings

It't that time again, time for another season of Project Quilting!  I have been looking forward to this fo so long!!

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 quilt was then quilted with a checkered pattern, following the diagonals of the blocks, except the diamond which was just outlined.  It is then bound with a fun grey stripe (that is actually a Christmas print, but I love it!)

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