I am making a quilt for Hands2Help run by Confessions of a Fabric Addict, this is the second year I will be participating in this charity quilt challenge. You can see the quilt I made and donated to Ronald MacDonald House last year here. I will again be making and donating a quilt to Ronald MacDonald House.
Back to my string over abundance and what to do with them. Strings and string blocks go hand in hand.
I sorted the strings by colour. Then set to work using them up. The idea was to use up all or the vast majority of them.
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all sorted and ready to go |
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laying out strings |
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before trimming |
Some of the fabric strings date back to the 90's. The size of the strings were anywhere from 1'' to 2 inches and various lengths. I used some older 2 1/2'' strips, the newer ones I kept for another project.
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lighter string blocks |
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darker blocks |
I made 80 blocks and these are the strings I have left, they didn't seem to go down at all. I think overnight the fabric/sewing fairy has been adding to them.
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after 80 blocks the strings appear to be growing |
I had some great help laying out blocks.
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my 'little helper' |
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I can see a few blocks I should have moved for better colour flow |
Next up quilting I am trying to decide whether to do straight line, wavy lines or an allover loop. What would you do?
I will be linking up to