String Quilts

My good friend Gene asked about my string quilts. He hadn't seen them in a while, so I'm reposting some of the ones I've done in the recent past.  Most come from scraps left over but the majority come from me cutting in the vast amount of fabric I have stored away and needing to refold. That's when I find most of the ideas of new string quilt designs....I know some of you know exactly what I talking about. The, "Oh wow, when did I buy that fabric," or "I didn't know I even had that one."

This one was a string challenge from my Wacky group.

 I couldn't find the photo of the whole quilt on this one but the close up is of some of my favorite fabrics.

 

This one was from strips of fabrics from many other projects.

 This one is from my red, white and black period. The rose fabric came from a quilt shop in San Antonio, TX. Funny how I can remember that and can't remember where I put my car keys.

 This was from some cowboy fabrics I had left over.

 On clue when I made this one but I do remember the 1 inch off white strip I used as an eye-popper.

 I was playing around with tone on tones in this one with dark fabrics to show off the tones.

 This one was made with all of my green fabrics. Green is my favorite color. I used several red fabric to bring out the center of the diamonds and then did a small red first border.

 Here, I was given some pink floral fabric from a lady's grandmother. I made the quilt you see for myself and made one for her as well.

 Pink, again. This one was made at the request of Ayden, my granddaughter. At the time she loved pink.

 Another red, white and black quilt. This is one design that I make often because it's a quick one and I never get tired seeing the fractured diamond effect.

 Another fractured diamond quilt but this time not only do you see the star in the middle but also the outlining border of brown and gray which is more pronounced than the one in the red/white/black one.

 Again, leftover fabric. I threw in the green as an accent and added the ABC at the last.

 I was just playing around with more scraps in this one. (Fractured diamond)

 Green/black/gray was used here...another fractured diamond type.

This one was made last year for a veteran.

Finally, this one was made a very long time ago, like 1998-ish.....LOL!!

So, that's the end of my string tour.

To see more strings from other bloggers click HERE!

 

 

 

Help Me Celebrate

Greetings Everyone!!

I was looking over my blog the other day and discovered that I'm 9 post shy of 1600 posts. OMG! I can't believe it. I've been blogging since 2007 & through many ups and downs in my farm-girl live, I've enjoyed every minute of getting to know many of my fellow bloggers.
So I decided to do a count down & some give-aways to build up to the number 1600.  I'm giving away a fat quart (the winner choses the color) each post until 1600. All you need to do to participate is to leave a comment and in said comment mention your favorite color starting with this post. I'll gladly send to my international friends as well.
Now, onto my next Veteran s quilt. 

I made this HST quilt last year & it just sat on a shelf collecting dust bunnies.

I'll be placing a close up of an eagle at the top. I really like it so far but I'll need to add more details.

Stay tuned for more FQ give aways toward my 1600 posts!

Finally, here's one of my grandbabies. I can't believe they were able to snap a photo with the hat still on her head. She's a firecracker!!!

Veteran's Quilt Part 2

Sorry about the view of my toes....lol!!

I finished stitching down the eagle for the most part & decided to have a look at the other part of my project that spurred me to take this on in the first place. It's from a Bargello leftover. These days I don't throw anything away. After looking at the two together I knew it needed something. Mr. Cowboy strolled by & also noted that it needed something. So I decided to sleep on it. You know that things come to us quilters while we sleep.....hehehe!

After a couple of nights sleep I came up with the solution below.

I added a strip withe the words " Land of the Free" to divide the two. Mr. Cowboy was pleased & gave me two thumbs up.

All I need to do next is add a border. Stay tuned.

I saw this little funny on someone's blog & thought I'd re-share it.

Another Veteran's Quilt Started

I'm thinking of making eagle blocks to go on each quilt because many aren't going to be red, white & blue themed. So I want something patriotic on each.

I found a clip art image to work with, enlarged it & traced the parts that I wanted to use onto Heat n Bond & pressed those into my fabric choices.

So far......

Got the eagle in position & added feather markings.

I've started making HST to highlite the eagle.

More progress to come soon!

I've Found My Mojo!

Many thanks to everyone who have given me pep talks. You all soothed my soul while also energizing me.

Here's why I'm so excited.

I have "many" quilt tops in my stash. I've been making quilt tops for years with no real idea of what to do with them. I've decided to.................shhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!

give them away at our annual Veterans Day service at our Senior Citizens center.

All I need to do is get them all quilted.

This is the first quilt I've enlarged by adding a multi-square border.

I'll be showing other quilts as I get them ready to be quilted.

Again, thanks to all you helped me out!!

A Winner & Oh my gosh!

I had some time on my hands and for some unknown reason I was drawn to my sewing room, decided to do some cleaning and refolding. But things got out of hand. I started pulling out drawers of fabric. I got a wild hair to organize things "again" and now the room looks like someone threw a fit in there.

I have piles of fabric everywhere.  Mr. Cowboy took one look at the room and tried to back out of the house before I caught him for the drawing.....hehehehehehehe

Carol over at Carol-Beads & Birds is the winner of the FQ. Sorry it took so long for Mr. Cowboy to draw a name from the hat.  Hay season is in full swing here.    Congratulations to Carol!!! Leave a comment and tell me your favorite color and I'm contact you via email later for more info.

Mini Wednesday - Loads of Photos

Hi everyone! I've finally recovered from the Houston Quilt Show....hehehehehehe
First off, "A Storm Brewing" is quilted. It took me a few days to come up with an idea of how to get it done.
Mini measures 14" by 15 1/2".

This that out of the way, I've started on a new "mini" which I've names "Home by the Stresm"

I know you'll be wondering about that name when you see the mini but it's all I could come up with. I may need better suggestions from you all......

Auditioning fabric is one of my favorite past times.

I decided to use that beigie fabric as the sky...not sure what the second will be at the moment.

Found the blue shimmery fabric, cut it into a flowing stream design and moved the grayish fabric below it as a stopping point.

Brown fabric for soil and green for a grassy area.

I have a great array of tree bark fabrics so I'm using mostly the birch bark on this project.

Some of the tree trunks look better leaning or chewed off.

Add the beaver and some grass here and there. I'm liking the look. 

Got it quilted & bound. It measures 12 1/2" by 15 1/2"

What to you think?? And do suggest a better name for this mini. 

Mini Wednesday

I love this sky fabric with all those wonderful colors.

I'd sure you can already see the beginnings of a covered wagon.

It was so much fun finding a woodzy fabric in my stash.

Finding stones was easy plus I added the shadow under the wagon.

All finished except the stitching down and quilting which I'll get to sometime in the next couple of weeks. I'm naming this one "Wagons Hoooo!" I remember the old western wagon masters issuing that command. 

Next.

These fabrics were enlisted for my next mini but I did change one fabric.

The witch and kitties are all cut out and ready to go.

Two trees with character look very spooky.

I'm beginning to wonder about the fence fabric. It's too distracting.

I like it even less at this point. Time to make a change.

This is much better. A very dark gray for the fence. I'm thinking this one will be named. "On a Clear Night!" But, I may change my mind before too long. This one hasn't been stitched down or quilted either. Soon!!