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| Strings left over from Good Fortune |
This month, Angela at SoScrappy, chose orange to be the color of scraps for May. Lucky for me, I pulled a bunch of strings as I emptied the Good Fortune project bin.
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| Leftover chunks waiting in the wings |
There were also some chunks remaining which I put to one side to cut strings as I needed.
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| Strings gleaned from past projects |
Finally, I pulled the orange string bag. There were some strings that for his project I decided weren't orange. I put those in a different container!
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| Piecing orange |
At last, I started the piecing rectangles. I sew sixteen uphill and sixteen downhill rectangles into two blocks.
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| One section |
Eventually, I pieced enough rectangles to sew them into a section.
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| One block |
Four sections made a block. I stitched together two blocks. This time, I used a stick of Elmer's School glue to anchor the first fabric. I had a much easier time matching the centers.
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| View of most of the blocks pieced |
I have space on the design wall for two more blocks.
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| Orange string bag after piecing |
Cleaning up, I found more orange strings! The bag is about as full as it was when I started; but, I did use a lot of strings! Piecing the blocks was goal number two on my May
list. Linking to
Finished or Not Friday,
So Scrappy and
Patchwork and Quilts.
12 comments:
Your design wall is beautiful with all the colorful string blocks! I love the color block diamond pattern.
Your orange string blocks are looking good, Terry! Although not orange, I love the center string fabric with its dots - that looks perfect for connecting the two sides of each block. Fun to see all your blocks on the design wall, too!
They look so pretty all up on the design wall!
Nice work, Terry. I love seeing the blocks together on your design wall.
Those rectangular string blocks are awesome.
Those string blocks look great on the wall. I love that diamond pattern.
There will always be more scraps, no matter how hard we try to use them up! Nice string blocks. Gail at the cozy quilter
Lots of lovely ORANGE scraps, Terry! Thanks for sharing how your project is coming together with all the blocks you've made.
I have always had an affection for string quilts. Your blocks look beautiful, Terry and great tip on using the Elmer's glue. I will have to try that. Have a wonderful weekend. Hugs.
Very cool blocks! I'm familiar with square string blocks but never thought about rectangle ones. What size are they? And don't they all look pretty together!!??!! Have a great week!
What a wonderful new big block on your design wall! I love the white string that connect them all together. There a lot of orange scraps here, despite the bag still full :)) Thank you for sharing your pretty rectangle string blocks, and linking up.
That orange is Great!! and I love how all these blocks look together!
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