We are having a row by row exchange next month at my guild and the theme is 1930’s prints. I decided not to procrastinate this time and get them done early. I still need to sew the 2 halves of the blocks together and then make 6 rows with 6 blocks in each of them. Good thing I started early on these. One down, 35 more to go……..👍🏻
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Theresa
I didn’t get much sewing done the last couple of weeks with Christmas, but I managed to find enough time to get the blocks made, the rows sewn together and the sashings added. The top is now ready to add the borders. I originally thought about just adding some plain borders to it but now I’m thinking that a string border would look good on it. Hmm…… we’ll see. Anyway, it’s on my design wall today, waiting for borders. 
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Theresa
My design wall is starting to get covered with string blocks. 
Eight down with 12 to go! The snow this past weekend allowed me lots of extra time to spend in my workroom quilting and sewing. I guess maybe there is something good about snow. LOL!!
That’s it for my wall this week. Check out more walls at www.patchworktimes.com
Theresa
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
I have become so addicted to string quilts. Whether I’m making squares or sashing units,it doesn’t matter. I just love sewing those strings together and coming up with different ways to put them together into quilts!
I bought these blocks online probably 16 years or so ago. At the time I thought it would be a fast way to put a quilt together (save time by not having to piece the blocks) and have something to practice my machine quilting on.
Needless to say, I never did get them made into a quilt top.
I always knew I had them in a box somewhere………but where?????
I finally ran across them this last week and knew exactly what I wanted to do with them. I started pulling purple strings from my string basket and cutting a few more.
I’m hoping to find time this week to work on getting the sashings finished. I have all the string pieces made, just need to sew them together to make the sashing units.
But right now I have to get back to the longarm. Check out more design walls at wwwpatchworktimes.com
Theresa
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 finished sewing the crown royal quilt top. Yea! The quilt top measures 110″x 110″. It outgrew my design wall so I had to wait for a good weather day and lay it outside to get a picture of the whole top.
My son wanted it to be a king size quilt so I needed a quick easy block. Making a simple 12″ 9 patch block with 4 patch blocks in the corners, then a 3.5″ sashing and cornerstones did the trick! Next step is to get it quilted and bound. 👍🏻
Have you made a crown royal quilt? Or collecting bags to make one?
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 know some people are against using glue in the construction of thier quilts, but I am “not” one of those people. I love how easy it is to glue the pieces together and then just sit down at the sewing machine and sew. I’ve been working on the crown royal blocks, which has really gone together quick! I like doing things that are quick, that way I can get more things done.
I thought I would share a bit of the glueing process with you today. I had all the blocks made and there is a sashing strip that goes in between each block. I sewed a sashing strip onto the right side of each block (the first block has a sashing on both sides). Here’s where using the glue really speeds up the process.
Starting with the first block, I glued the blocks together one by one, making sure they were in the correct order. After glueing the first 2 blocks together, I would fold up the block on top and then with rights sides together, glue the next block on and repeat that process until all blocks were glued together.
I then picked up the stack and moved to the sewing machine.
Keeping the blocks stacked, I started sewing.
When I reached the end of the first block, I chain pieced to the next block.
I continued to keep them stacked while chain piecing the blocks.
When I finished the last block, all I had to do was clip the threads between the blocks…….
Tadah! Row is complete. No blocks accedentally turned, no pins to fuss with or get poked by. Only took a few minutes to have all the blocks sewn into rows.
That’s it for now. Next step will be to glue the sashings onto each row and then take my pile of rows to the sewing machine and chain piece them. Yep, I like using glue!😳
Theresa
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