Remember when I showed you this and asked if you thought I was crazy to start another string quilt? Most of you nicely said that I wasn’t (thank you!). What I failed to mention though, was that these squares are only 5.5″ square.
And I plan on making a queen sized quilt.
Which means that I need roughly 400 blocks…
I’m at 85 or so.
Just so you don’t think I’m over here slacking…
I pulled out the blocks I’ve received for my month for the Block Party Quilting Bee – I love to admire them (they’re fabulous!), and I’m dying to get them sewn together into a quilt top. I’m missing blocks from 2 members, but while I wait for those, I’ve started making up some additional blocks to add. Here’s what I have so far (and yes, I should take the time to iron them!)-
You may remember that I requested blocks in the style of Denyse Schmidt’s Drunk Love in a Log Cabin. I’ve been using my scraps, and it’s making for bright and fun blocks. Since I already have a fair number, I’ve decided to make enough additional blocks to create a queen sized quilt (I have too many throws, and not enough quilts that are bed-sized!)
Here are a few of the blocks I’ve put together –
I just can’t wait to see it finished!
Sometimes simple is best, which is why I continue to come back to the simple charm square quilt.
I especially love this type of quilt with the MoMo Wonderland fabrics. This is my third — another baby quilt. I realize that this is a bit repetitive, but maybe we could blame it on the end of summer? I’ve been trying to spend more time enjoying the end of summer and less time sewing (which is a bit hard for me! I’ll admit to bringing my fabric scraps to the beach so I can do both simultaneously!)
The backing is one of the polka dot prints from this line, which I really love, and the binding is a nice chocolate brown solid.
For the quilting on this one, I continued with the diagonal quilting lines, though on this one I used three lines about a 1/4″ apart running diagonally in one direction with one line running diagonally in the other direction. I skipped every other diagonal so it wouldn’t be too busy. I love this pattern, and I think I’ll probably play around with some more straight line quilting in the future!
It measures about 34″ x 42″ and is now for sale in the shop. Sold! Thanks Megan!
I love this quilt as much as I’ve loved the previous two I made. And speaking of, the second version of this quilt was sold to Angie, and she kindly sent me photos of the quilt in its new home. I was thrilled that she took the time to take a few photos – it’s fun to see that she’s loving it! Thanks Angie!~
Ashley
South Burlington, Vermont
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