Duke Says Sew What: String Quilt

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Work In Progress (WIP) Wednesday

WIP Wednesday is here! Decided to do a photo recap of all things pending!

1. The Circle Quilt - I'm not sure where this is heading yet but I know it should be big and fluffy with ties when all is said and done. I have other background colors I will be using and lots more of those circles cut and ready to go.

2. The 36 patch from a QAL with Amanda Jean at crazymomquilts. I was going to go bigger, but I've lost the momentum so this will be a quilt top soon - time to sew rows. I love the bright colors and as some of these fabrics were scraps, they hold special memories. The baseball fabricin the primarily blue block was a shower curtain that my Mom made my oldest son, back when he was in kindergarten. He's 18 now! Yay for me for keeping the fabric that long. Those yellow buses in the black and yellow block were a jumper that my same son wore as a baby. Mom recently sent me that fabric.

3. My String Quilt - how I love her! Those colors - so pink! And look at this sheet I found at Goodwill - think I'll use it for the back. This quilt is at the stage of "time to press and sew the rows together".

4. Half Square - Diamonds quilt. See the first row sewn together with the tips of the diamonds? That's as far as I got when company came this summer and I had to clean off the dining room table.

5. Bust Yo Scraps QAL. It is hosted by http://www.justabitfrayed.wordpress.com/. I'm excited for a fresh start with a new quilt! I've pulled these scraps from the basket and added in a couple of charm packs my MIL gave me. You can find the details here. It will look like this:

So now to choose the solid color:

white?

yellow?

purple?

pink?

I could really use some help choosing! What do you think?

Back to my list of WIPS...

6. A EPP Block Party with http://www.summerfete.blogspot.com/. Looks like a great take along project and I did love making hexagons last year. She made the most beautiful table top/quilt for my new blog friend, Mary. I can't resist making one, too!

7. The Chevron quilt - ready for a backing

I'm considering the curves class with Rachel at Stitched in Color. Details here.

I'd also like to get involved in a charity bee but not sure where/which one.

That is all for now!

Linking up to Freshly Pieced WIP Wednesday.

Kris

Friday, November 18, 2011

String Quilt

I'm really itching to start a new quilt, but with so many in progress, that seems like a really bad idea. Plus I'm starting that quilt along, too. OK so staying focused today....on the strip quilt.

Here's how it looked a couple of weeks ago on my design wall ( flannel sheet pinned to the wall). Our kitchen has two doorways and my guys were forced to walk "around" to the back side to come into the kitchen while this was up. "How long is that going to stay up, Mom?" I heard this a few times. Then hubby chimes in, "Won't the quilt smell like pasta sauce if we don't take that down?" But here's where my fellow quilters will surely agree - out of sight, out of mind. Am I right?! So since it has come down, I have made a "little" progress, meaning I think I worked on it twice. The good news is all of those squares are now sewn into rows! Next step, press rows and sew them together and ladies and gentlemen, we have a quilt top!

Here is what I was shooting for when I sewed the strips together. I wanted diamonds to come together at each corner, though I didn't care if they were all the same size. Well it worked out, but first I had to label each piece of paper with which square it was by row and by order and then write what color the corners were to be. A little confusing, but doable.

Probably my least favorite part was ripping off the paper. The stitch count needs to be set between 1-2 so that the stitches don't come out when you rip of the paper. Here's what the back of the papers looked like as I took off the paper from the fabric.