String quilt

I am in the midst of a STRING quilt.

Very satisfying WORK!!

It is work and play ALL wrapped up together in ONE

and I LOVE it.

After pulling this block out of the orphan box Monday

and wondering what color to make NEXT.....

 

I knew (Within 2 minutes)

that my blocks needed to be

FULL of COLOR!

I KNEW I had enough scraps for this one!

 

I was so excited after making block #1...

I kept sewing.

;)

 

Sue asked for my block info...

so I'm adding it here today.

My squares are 6" x 6"

 

After sewing strings together....

I trimmed and pressed.

 

You need FOUR of these 6" squares for each block.

 

For the corner triangles..

I used one piece of 7"x7" phone book page

(If you're careful with that 1/4" seam

I'm sure you could do it with 6 1/2" as well...

but I like some "Elbow room")

 

I paper pieced the strings

beginning in the niddle and pressed as I added strips.

When the paper was full....

 

I turned it over....

Trimmed along the edge of the paper....

Cut DIAGONALLY

and removed the paper backing.

I cut a 7"x7" muslin square

and cut that diagnally as well.

I sewed a string triangle and a muslin triangle together

then I had to trim ONCE more

to make the square 6" x 6".

 

Each block needs FOUR of these half square triangles.

 

I now have this beautiful set of blocks

GLOWING on my sewing room floor.

 

Initially I thought I would add muslin sashing

around/between each block.....

But...

I'm going to let it GLOW a bit longer

and see if this quilt helps me DECIDE!

I kind of like them ALL close together.

 

Happy sewing!