Turkey Tracks: March 20, 2014
Settings for String-quilt Blocks
Remember my pile of 100 plus string-quilt blocks made during my quilting retreat?
I’ve been looking at different settings for these blocks. Here’s an interesting one from a quilter whose name I have totally lost on Bonnie Hunter’s Open Studio Facebook site–and I apologize for that as she designed this setting.
There’s a ton of work in this setting, but it’s making a terrific quilt. I think I’m going to do something a bit different though…. I’m playing around with some sort of double lattice with cornerstones made with very bright colors–like aqua, fern green, orange, red…
Rosie Pilkerton was working on a different version of a string quilt–one that makes it’s own lattice as you leave a set width of your underlying fabric foundation square (the pale yellow here) free and start your strings on either side of that central diagonal stripe:
VERY nice, Rosie.
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