Here's the finished quilt, Fractured, from the previous post. The blocks are string pieced 5'' finished squares.
The "liberated" straight lines in the blocks were achieved by making straight line spirals over four blocks at a time.
I've made a few other quilts from Oakshott cottons and I am smitten.
I've saved all the scraps and will be doing some tiny piecing with the leftovers. The fabric is thin enough that I think it will behave really well in tiny piecing.
This quilt uses the Lakes collection, the Ruby Reds collection and the two greys in the Scandinavian collection.
The back of the quilt is also Oakshott; I love it so much that I now want to make a whole cloth quilt with it, or maybe a simple Welsh Bars quilt. I want to hand quilt it and lose myself in the glow of the fabric. I want the quilting and the iridescence of the fabric to take center stage.
I really do wish you could see it in person.
Finished size 51'' x 51''.
The background is string pieced with sandy colored neutrals.The beach balls are string pieced using color coordinating scraps.
I had fun digging through my scraps and building the color wedges.
The binding is pieced from a variety of the background fabrics.
The base blocks were built and squared up with a 6.5'' square rotary cutter ruler. A triangle was stiched to the corner of each square and four squares are sewn together to make a wind mill block. When building the blocks I used all but the lightest lights and the darkest darks from my scraps.
I like the way the blue fabric in the blades shows continuity throughout the quilt.I'd like to make another one with less variation in the value of the fabrics making up the string pieced blocks and higher contrast of the windmill blades and the background.
My sister and I made a second string piece quilt for my nephew's high school graduation in 2012. We each built half of the background blocks from our scrap stash. I then, added the corner triangles and put the quilt together. This was a great design to work on together. My sister and I live across the country from each other and have very different scrap stashes. By mixing all of the blocks together, there is still a cohesive look for the quilt.
In this variation of the design, the triangle corners are pieced the same way as the blocks for my 
You can purchase an autographed copy of the Every Last Piece from me 
I really enjoyed making these string pieced melons throughout last year. It was fun sewing and I was able to make some of them with the 
I did a bit of scrap sewing this weekend. I made some pieced binding for the Paris quilt and put together another stack of string blocks.
String piecing is very therapeutic and allows me to mull over other projects while I sew.I also made some bee blocks for 
She requested "low volume" strip sets. These are all from my "lights" scraps. I hope they are low volume enough. The photo makes them seem more printy and high contrast than they are.We also weeded and spread mulch on my herb garden and even had a little "campfire" last night. We thought we should at least have one evening fire before the mosquitoes get bad.Did you have a productive weekend?
Really, it slays me. I know that if I had started with yardage of that fabric I wouldn't feel the same way. It was precious and I had to include it in this quilt.Are you like that? Do some fabrics make you emotional? Is it just me? I got a little teary feeling this morning cutting a center for a tiny star out of the very last scrap of fabric left from a dress I made myself in 1975. Sigh.Look, they are crushed under their own weight.
This little stack is making me very happy. I think I'll just keep it and pet it for awhile before moving to the next step.
I only have enough of the white (I just bought a bolt) so I will have to purchase whatever I will use.
A yellow background would have to be a clear buttery yellow. I was thinking of the Kona Ash, a light gray, but I don't have any of that to try. I like the Chartreuse a lot but think it might look "dated" in a few years. I'm not sure that bothers me though. The chartreuse layout really does give me a happy feeling every time I walk by it.I wish my local quilt shop carried a good selection of solids. It is too hard to make a choice from the small sample on the color card.It's time to start on another project or get another top ready for quilting while I struggle with the decision. I am ready to listen to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I need to be sewing!!!
