I hope this link takes you to the blog with the string quilt... just when I htink I have seen all the ways... there is another way I find to make a string quilt!
I made the quilt. It was a pattern called Carmel Latte available from http://www.4and6designs.com They have a whole line of patterns based on strings or Strata's as they call them.
Although you wouldn't need a pattern if you are used to making string quilts. It was very easy to make with 4 colorways that washed to the center.
Karen, that is a great string quilt. If you hang around these boards you will find that a number of the participants have fallen in love with string quilts and have done many swaps and quilts.
Hope you will stick around.
Nawnie
Posts: 610 | Location: Charleston, S. C. | Registered: Dec 07, 2003
the Golden Needle welcome to the board - YOU are the quilt maker? or you made a pattern like that??? oh dua, your name is the same as the blog so it must really be you! sorry I forgot to leave a comment, I don't even rememebr how I foudn your blog today... I often have to get up and leave computer... but i had to share your quilt with the board members here as I helped get everyone here ADD+ICTED a few year back when I held a sting swap... and now string quilts and more string swaps are popping up everywehre
Welcome to the HGTV board!!! ~bonnie
PS - quiltnanny I missed the previous swap ... it is a "c"hoose "y"our "o"wn "c"enter right? and you mail indivudiately to everyone??? are you the corrdinator of this swap?
I forgot to make a comment on the blog but looks liek I directed a lot of traffic to Karens blog thanks everyone for making her feel right at home here with us.
Love from Texas! ~bonnie
"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself."
Bonnie - more like a Coose Your Own Color string swap. Center string choice as well. The one that is finishing up now has B & W's, 30's, purples, fall colors, southwest colors, etc. all with specified colors and/or width for the center string. As an added bonus - we mail directly to the recipient on an ongoing basis and have a ball at the mailbox for weeks!!
Posts: 1185 | Location: Great Midwest | Registered: Oct 29, 2006
Bonnie I am laughing... how funny we can be! Just to update you on the CYOC.. it's Choose Your Own Color.. the center is also your choice of color and width, each player makes 2 blocks of the other players choice in colors - and centers - and mails them directly to that person. We have had a lot of fun, seen a lot of wonderful combinations and a real + is that the knowing who it's going to helps one make really nice blocks. I did not start this swOp.. I picked it up when the previous hostess has something happen and left us. So when everyone wanted to do another - I agreed to be the record-keeper It is a lot of fun, mailing is MUCH less expensive than big packs, and what fun to have months of little squishie envelopes in the mail box! Wew ill do it again - think about it next time!
Royal just saw that you had answered too.
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oooohhh how I wish!
It is a lot of fun, mailing is MUCH less expensive than big packs, and what fun to have months of little squishie envelopes in the mail box! Wew ill do it again - think about it next time!