What's so super about it?
Posted by cottonmillthreadworks on Sunday, February 6th, 2011
For some of us, cleaning out closets is preferable to watching Super Bowl. You never know what you might find. And for some of us throwing out any string or scrap of fabric is difficult. My closet revealed these stringy treasures:
And here's what they can be turned into:
The instructions for this string quilt can be found on Bonnie Hunter's site. The beauty of string piecing is that no piece is too small. String too short? Just add on!
Although this quilt was pieced with evenly cut strips it could easily be done with strings:
Gwen Marston's book Liberated String Quilts is full of inspiration and instruction - a wonderful gallery of antique string quilts together with instructions for 20 projects. These quilts are so much fun to make - the colours and patterns are what made us buy the fabric in the first place and it's interesting to revisit some of those choices!
Solids look great in string quilts, and solids are very hot right now. Quite a few manufacturers are now producing them in a wide colour range. Kona solids by Kaufman are one of the originals:
String quilts - now that's what I call super!
Solids look great in string quilts, and solids are very hot right now. Quite a few manufacturers are now producing them in a wide colour range. Kona solids by Kaufman are one of the originals:
The colour card (with samples of all 219 colours) is available from Hancock's of Paducah and is very handy if you are mail ordering, or just dreaming (you do dream in colour, don't you?). The fabric is from Mad About Patchwork - an online shop in Stittsville, Ont. which carries a good selection of the Konas.
String quilts - now that's what I call super!
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