Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Festival of Strings Part I

Rachel at Stitched in Color is hosting a string challenge.  When I saw the original post and the rule that strings had to be 3” or narrower, I knew exactly what I would make.

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These are leftover strips from a quilt I made from a 1/2 yard bundle of Indian Summer.  I had a few inches of each print left over from another quilt I made, so I cut the pieces into 3” strips and used my design wall to try to balance out all the prints in a somewhat improv kind of manner. 

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I used Kona Essex linen in natural for the background.  As an aside—the Kona linen in natural is a slightly lighter color than the wide Kona linen in natural, but just a tiny bit.  You might be able to tell in my photo that some of the linen looks a shade lighter than the rest.  I ran out of linen about halfway through the quilt and ordered the wide since it was only a dollar more than regular width.

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At first I didn’t want to repeat any of the strips, so I cut a few other prints from my stash, but I ended up repeating anyway.  This quilt is destined to be a gift for a birthday boy on June 15th, so it can’t languish for long!  I’m not sure what the exact size is, but definitely twin or larger.  It’s so big it doesn’t have enough room to hang down from the clothesline.  I’ve got the backing already made, just have to get it basted now.

I hope everyone had a wonderful, long weekend!

17 comments:

  1. What great use of the leftovers! I'm excited to see the finished quilt.

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  2. I love it! seriously! Great colors.

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  3. great idea, Jamie. Love how it turned out.I was planning on entering Festival of strings but I did not make it with my quilt top. Good luck, hope you win something good.

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  4. Looks great!! Neat way to use up scraps.

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  5. I love the simplicity of your design and the large negative space. A really modern looking quilt, in my eyes. Love it.

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  6. This is a wonderful way to use up leftover strips! I really like it.

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  7. What a brilliant idea, you'd never guess it was a using up project. Good long weekend here, village fete in the sunshine yesterday, house bound day due to pouring rain today.... xx

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  8. It's such a great quilt and perfect for a boy.

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  9. I love the linen, it adds such great texture. I also love that it is completely classic. That little boy will have it for years!

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  10. That's really lovely, I love the colours in the strips.
    I finished off a string quilt last week and gave it to my neighbours little 9 year old girl who absolutely loved it.

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  11. Love everything about your quilt top - beautiful!

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  12. I spy Indian Summer! Yum! Love all that linen to balance it out:)

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  13. clean and simply lovely! very nice

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  14. What a great quilt. Really, I thought it was a plan from the get-go. So I love that it's a way to use up left-over scraps. Brilliant idea!

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  15. Yet another great quilt! I bet the lucky boy will love it too :)

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  16. Making an improv quilt in this style seems like such a fun project. Yours turned out great!

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  17. Great! There is something about linen and colorfull fabric that gets me every time. :)

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