Scrappy madness to start the year!
Several months ago I said for 2019 I was going to do a string quiltalong. We are almost in 2019! So many great string quilt options. Have you made a string quilt? Do you want to make a string quilt? I started a pinterest board you can check it out HERE. String quilts were definitely sewn because of economics, and few early ones survived because they were made to be used. According to Gwen Marston string quilts are not restricted to one certain geographic area, but many can be attributed to Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky and Texas. String Pieced Block. (Maker not recorded). 1860-1890. From Arizona Quilt Documentation Project, Heritage Quilt Study Group of Sharlot Hall Museum, Prescott, Arizona. Published in The Quilt Index, http://www.quiltindex.org/fulldisplay.php?kid=67-EC-125B. Accessed: 12/13/2018 I love how they added 2 pieced blocks! So charming!! Stuart, Pamona Louvisie Forrester. Unequal Nine Patch. 1895. From Tennessee State Library and Archives, Quilts of Tennessee. Published in The Quilt Index, http://www.quiltindex.org/fulldisplay.php?kid=4C-83-6C5. Accessed: 12/13/2018 I love the sashing on this one! With the American depression in the 1930's women again turned to making string quilts and using every little piece of fabric they had. Crowe, Marian F. STRING FEED SACK. 1935. From West Virginia Department of Archives and History, West Virginia Heritage Quilt Search. Published in The Quilt Index, http://www.quiltindex.org/fulldisplay.php?kid=50-8A-D3D. Accessed: 12/13/2018 Strippy string pieced. (Maker not recorded). c.1930. From Oregon Quilt Project, Oregon Quilt Project. Published in The Quilt Index, http://www.quiltindex.org/fulldisplay.php?kid=6A-FD-248. Accessed: 12/13/2018 So many cool options! I chose my own block and made this Americana quilt. I started this one in a class with Gwen Marston. I have a few blocks made for my 2019 string quilt. If you want to join in it's time to start looking for a quilt you'd like to make. So many fun options in the quilt index and I'm sure on pinterest. You could go completely modern too! The first step is choose a pattern! Making small quilts is a fun way to try a new technique. You could make a doll size quilt for practice. Are you going to join me in 2019 for our string quiltalong?
String Quilt by Mary Dean of Franklin County, North Carolina North Carolina project & the Quilt Index. Those of us who look at a lot...
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What a fun class we had on Wednesday in Ferndale, WA. It was called String Quilts Your Way I give them the basic techniques (there are more than one, like most of quilting) and they make a string quilt they'd like. I give them plenty of examples ahead of class. Busy quilters! So many fun varieties! Traditional with reproductions. Plaids and dots. What a fun variety of greens. Anything goes! It will be great! A quadrant of this block was already completed and she was doing a great job with the Y seams. Diagonal is always a great option. Spider web Hexagons. Circle string blocks that will be appliqued down! So creative! This is going to be a more modern setting. Love the use of these quiet solids. So graphic! I'm sorry if I missed your quilt blocks. Send me an email and I'll share them! I look forward to seeing some lovely string quilts! Thank you Piecables and Evergreen quilt guilds! I'm looking forward to going to Idaho next month to present to the North Idaho Quilters!
String Quilts are sustainable patchwork projects using well loved items and fabric scraps with the design inspiration of Carolyn Forster.
It's still July, technically, and we've got some of Jan/Feb's string quilts done! These are always a super popular block drive so it's a ma...
Transform your fabric scraps into beautiful new scrappy quilts by making string quilts. A tutorial from NewQuilters.com #stringquilts #stringquilttutorial #stringquiltsideas
Perfect for scrap quilts and themed quilting projects, string quilts can be made using an easy, freehand version of foundation piecing.
Main - I don't get what the 'reciept' is for when making string quilts - Wow, very confusing. I'd never heard of using receipts. I have heard of using phone book papers or newspapers. I don't make my string quilts with foundations. I cut strips across the width of the fabric, piece the strips together, then cut
Get Creative with Super Easy String Piecing! String quilts are a great way to use up miscellaneous strips of leftover fabrics. They’re also very adaptable and so easy to make. You may find that a string quilt is the most fun of any quilt you’ll make! Make the blocks any size you want, make as …
by Alisa and Benjamin Start by cutting strips of fabric in random widths. Ours were between 1.25 and 2.5 inches. This is a great way to us...
String quilt
Hello faithful Covered in Love sewers! It's January and time for the 5th annual CiL String Block Drive. The first 3 years we did a traditio...
Yesterday I finished binding this string quilt that I began as the first of three throws that I was asked to make. I quilted it on my Jazz...
Hi Everyone, I had so many lovely comments about the blocks I made last weekend that I thought I would write a little tutorial fo...
Scrappy string quilt
Maureen Cracknell Handmade: A New Diamond Strings Quilt : :
Today I am going to show you how to make the Blended Scraps Blocks that I used to make Reflection . These blocks are easy and fun to make....
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