I finished the purple string quilt tonight and it’s now ready to be quilted. 
It will get an edge to edge quilting design on it. The string sashing was perfect for finishing off those blocks. This quilt will be one of the quilts I will show in my lecture on string quilts that I am working on putting together.
Now back to sewing more strings!
Theresa
My design wall is still covered with the purple string quilt, except now the sashings and cornerstones are on there too. I was hoping to have those last 2 sections sewn on by now but there’s only so many hours in a day and I ran out of them! LOL!
That’s my quick update for today’s wall. To see more design walls, check out http://www.patchworktimes.com
Theresa
I hope everyone enjoyed the blog hop featuring the Ruby’s treasures fabric line from Barb Eikmiere. After being asked to participate in the hop and deciding which block I would showcase, I thought about an old box of old Kansas City Star patterns that I had. I dug the box out and discovered that I have 49 original patterns from the Star newspaper that were Ruby McKims designs.
I didn’t know at the time that I had picked a design from one of the patterns that I had.
I looked through all my patterns to see if I had any of the patterns that the other hop hosts had used. I didn’t, but I do have the one that Barb made using the beggar block pattern and her Ruby’s treasure fabric line.
What fun it was to discover that I had the original block pattern that had been published in the paper.
I hope you enjoyed the blog hop and the winners are Gloria Cotten for the fat quarter bundle and Kathy Cummings Slaughter for my e-book. Congrats ladies!
Have fun and enjoy using The Ruby’s treasures fabric line!
Theresa
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After deciding to put plain borders on the zig zag quilt, it went pretty fast getting the top completed and ready to quilt. Now my delimma is “panto or custom” for the quilting????? I’ll decide that later.
I’ve been working on another string quilt and finally have it ready to assemble into rows. I’m not real sure about it……..but I used up more strings!!
I call it towers. What do you think?
Anyway, the towers are on my design wall and hopefully I will find time this week to get them sewn together. To see more walls check out www.patchworktimes.com
Theresa
I got an idea a while back about using EE Schenk’s gelato fabric in a zig zag design. I have a few of the different colors that it comes in, and since I wasn’t sure how it would turn out, I went with one that doesn’t have a big noticeable change in the colors.
I played around with maybe doing a pieced border of some kind, but decided against that idea.
I’m just going to make a simple border and let the colors make a design around the quilt. 
Much faster! Then I can move on to another project. Maybe I’ll try another zig zag with one of these colors. I think the top one would look good.😀 
but for today, that’s what’s on my design wall. Check out more design walls at www.patchworktimes.com
Theresa
I decided a while back to use some Kaffe fabrics for a string quilt. The quilt I made had some leftover blocks so I played around with them and decided on this layout. I added sashings and cornerstones, now it’s time for borders.
I’m planning to use more of the orange fabric for a small border then use another Kaffe print for the outside border.
That’s what’s on my wall today. To see more walls check out www.patchworktimes.com
Theresa
I’m slowly making progress on the blocks. I sew a little on them when I get time. I have 24 sewn and I need 36 blocks for the quilt, so I’m more than halfway done with making the blocks. I have the sashings and cornerstones all cut and ready to go, so hopefully I can get the blocks finished soon and move on to assembling the quilt top. 😀
It’s going to outgrow my design wall soon. But for today, that’s my wall. To see more walls check out http://www.patchworktimes.com
Theresa
Another Monday is here, so I’ll just check in quickly with an update on the Crown Royal blocks. I got everything cut (thanks to my Accuguilt cutter!) I decided to go with a simple block that can be sewn together pretty quick. I need to make 36 blocks for the quilt. I started sewing a few of the 4 patch units together last night so I could lay out a block to see how it will look. 
Pretty simple block to make. I think it’s going to look great once I add the sashings and cornerstones.
That’s it for today. Need to get the long arms fired up. To see more walls check out www.patchworktimes.com
Theresa
I planned on getting some machine quilting done today between bus routes, but when thunderstorms move in plans get changed.😩 I keep both LongArm machines unplugged when there’s lightning going on. Anyway, since I couldn’t get any quilting done, I decided to start ironing the Crown royal bags that I’ve cut apart. I ironed 49 bags, but decided to only use 36.
After I finished ironing all the pieces, it was still storming, so I started cutting them into squares and strips to make 4patch blocks.
Next step will be to cut the other fabric I’m using but that will have to wait for another time. The storms have finally left and now it’s time for me to leave on the school bus.
Anyway, that’s it for my design wall this week. Joining in with http://www.patchworktimes.com
Hope the storms are gone for today.
Theresa
I got the borders added onto the Uneven bars quilt top. Since I pulled the solid fabric strips for the quilt from a couple packages of precuts, I didn’t have yardage of any one solid color. I debated over what to do and then decided to pull more precut strips of the pinks and use them for the inside border. You’ll notice they are light on the top and then get darker towards the bottom.
It’s now ready to be quilted. It will have to wait for now as I have several customer quilts that need edge to edge designs on them. I did get these all quilted last week. One small custom and the others edge to edge.
My design wall has these blocks on it today. I’m working on a new string quilt design using Kaffe fabrics. These are leftover blocks that I’ll make into a second quilt. 
We’ve been enjoying apple pies this last week too! I’ve made 9 so far. We’re enjoying our 2nd pie, I took one over to my sons house & I put 6 in the freezer. 
I was playing around with an app on my phone and put the 2 Uneven bars quilts that I’ve made, side by side in the picture. 
They look so different! Hard to believe it’s the same pattern! If you use one of the patterns from my book #Sew,Slice,SpinandSash, I’d love to see it! 😀
Guess that’s it for me today. Hoping for another productive week! To see what others are working on, visit http://www.patchworktimes.com
Theresa
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