String Quilts

The quilt that I am currently working on for a client is a string quilt.  Essentially a string quilt is a quilt comprised of strips of cloth typically left over from other projects.  The fabric that I am using are scraps left over from three other quilts that I have made for the same client.  Below are examples of the type of string quilt that I am trying to make.

From allbuttonedup.typepad.com

Each quilt block is built upon squares of stabilizer fabric and four squares help make the four pointed star with diamonds on the sides.  Below is the layout before I start adding the strips.

Figuring out background layout.

My First Twin Quilt

Up until 2011 I had only attempted to make baby and lap quilts.  To push myself I bought a kit from Connecting Threads and joined a local quilt group that met at the local library.  The end result is one of my favorite quilts.

When I made this quilt I had not even started to try free motion quilting.  I simply stitched in the ditch between the various rows.  I've thought about going back and quilting each brick, but I can not seem to bring myself to do it.

For Kathryn

This quilt is the second of three quilts that I was commissioned to make for a friend.  Denise has two small dogs that go to the groomers quite frequently.  Every time they do they come back with a bandanna around their neck.  I was asked to make three quilts, one for each child, out of these bandannas.  Kathryn, Denise's oldest child, loves pink.  The inspiration for this quilt came from an advertisement by Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting.  The free pattern, titled Paprika, was created by Chloe Anderson and Colleen Reale.

Trying to fingure out where each block went.

The borders were quilted with what Irena Bluhm calls "wonky feathers".

Each diamond between the stars and pinwheels had their own "wonky feathers" in them.

 This quilt accompanied Kathryn to medical school. 

For Solomon

I have a dear friend who has been through the refiners fire over the past few years.  When her son Solomon was born, 12 years ago, she gave her son up for adoption, but kept in touch with the family that adopted him.  Through many circumstances Solomon came back to her care last fall.  Solomon arrived with only the clothes on his back.  Quickly I made a twin sized quilt to help keep him warm through the cold winter.

I had a layer cake from Riley Blake and a bunch of red painters canvas by Laura Gunn.

Each block was quilted with different camping motifs.