I took a little break during the holiday season and ignored my sewing machine/ongoing projects, but after Vermont was hit with an ice storm, I couldn’t resist grabbing a nearly finished quilt and heading out for a quick photo shoot. The ice was so beautiful and such a nice contrast to this bright and colorful string quilt, and I’m hoping we can call it finished, even though it’s shown here sans binding.
I made these blocks a while back just to see how they looked using rectangles rather than squares and then I set them aside for quite a while. When I came back to them I decided to play around with the layout and came up with this one. I’m pretty fond of it – I love that off-centered diamond and even the way the white strings don’t quite make a solid line (I think it gives it that faceted look – can we go with that?)
The strings are a wide variety of fabrics – lots of colors and patterns! It’s fun to cast a glance at certain strings and remember what project they were originally used in.
I couldn’t decide how to quilt it and spent far too long just staring at it. In the end I decided to go with narrow straight lines through the middle diamond section, then I used straight lines on the diagonal on the four sides of the diamonds. It makes a fun secondary pattern where the lines cross. As much as I like the backing fabric, I kind of wish I had used a solid so you could see the quilting design!
After taking these photos I did eventually pick a binding and get it all bound and finished. You’d be surprised how long it took to pick a binding though! With all these colors and prints you’d think it would be a no brainer, but for some reason everything I pulled out seemed wrong. I finally went with the red Seedpod print from Denyse’s Florence line. I don’t think I’ve ever used red for a binding, and I quite like it! (You’ll have to take my word for it though – I haven’t gotten a photo of the fully finished quilt!)
And yes, it’s for sale! Want to buy it? You can find the listing here.
Yes, it does look faceted. I concur 😉 I imagine it’s beautiful with red binding. Love that last shot with the ice. Wow! So cold and yet so pretty.
A beautiful quilt, and even more beautiful photography. Just lovely 🙂
Love it! That turned out amazing..and the backing is one of my favorites.
What a wonderful finish. I love the colors. The photos are perfect bringing in the color in the winter 🙂
Beautiful quilt! And it’s perfect for the scenes you shot! The ice does look cold but ohhh, so beautiful!
Very colorful and bold. I too like the off centered look and the broken white lines. Great photos too.
It’s a lovely quilt, I really like how the white lines aren’t quite solid. And as ever your photos are exquisite. You are in a league of your own when it comes to taking pictures! Beautiful. Wishing you and yours a very happy New Year Ashley.
What amazing photos, that is absolutely beautiful! Happy new year to you.
I love your string quilt! It’s gorgeous. The icy background is a perfect back drop for this awesome quilt.
This quilt is gorgeous, and such amazing photos!
Gorgeous!
it is beautiful. And so is the snow! Happy new Year!
Ssso pretty & colourful contrasted with the icey background- Happy New Year !!!
This quilt is a beaut! I bet the red binding looks great too. I can only imagine the ice and snow – amazing! It was 62 degrees here today. Happy New Year!
Lynne
This is such a visually stunning quilt, and looks fab against the ice!
Makes me think of reflections. Mirrors. Beautiful.
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love it
I love this beautiful, unique quilt. I think it would be the perfect way to use up my scraps. What is the block size? Thanks for posting