Once you have made the blocks for your string quilt, you are ready to sew the blocks together. You can refer to our post on ‘How to Make a String Quilt Block’ for Part 1 of this tutorial if you haven’t made your blocks yet. TOOLS USED IN THIS TUTORIALSo now we need to join the the blocks together.Cut some contrasting strips that are 1″ wide and … [Read more...] about How to Make a String Quilt From Your Scrap Stash – Part 2
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Strip/String Quilt for My Grandaughter Ce’Nedra
The quilt I made for Cedie was made from our How to Make a String Quilt tutorial. This one was made some time ago but I just didn't get around to finishing it.So as her birthday was approaching it was time to get it out of the cupboard and finish it off.Although the blocks and sashing were made using the techniques in our String Quilt tutorial, the backing was done … [Read more...] about Strip/String Quilt for My Grandaughter Ce’Nedra
Readers Project: Sue’s Gorgeous String Quilt
NOTE from Alanda Craft: Isn't Sue's quilt absolutely gorgeous. It just goes to show what you can do with your scrap stash. Sue made her quilt following our How to Make a String Quilt tutorial. I just love the way this string quilt has turned out. Inspirational. In fact we are inspired to do another one after seeing Sue's stunning result.Sue Says: I finally finished the top … [Read more...] about Readers Project: Sue’s Gorgeous String Quilt
How to Make a String Quilt From Your Scrap Stash – Part 1
If you are anything like us then you will have a large amount of scraps in your stash and its can sometimes be challenging to come up with ideas to use them.Making string quilts is an ideal way of using up those scraps, and these quilts not only look awesome they are easy to make and they will make a dent in that stash.We sew the strips directly onto our batting which … [Read more...] about How to Make a String Quilt From Your Scrap Stash – Part 1