100% Strings quilt

We’re all being frugal and using scraps nowadays and fabric orders placed online are taking longer to get here!

I had this sort of phonebook that we got in the mail, it wasn’t a phonebook but about IBM stock options or something like that for my husband – 401K stuff I guess, he was about to toss it a long time ago and I thought it would be great for foundation paper so I kept it!

then I had seen on pinterest, some string quilts where the blocks were rectangles instead of square and it peeked my interest!

I had looked at my scrap bins and my light blue was overflowing, so I planned a small baby quilt and set to work

After I made 16 blocks (8 going the opposite diagonal) I trimmed to 7 1/2″ x 9 1/2″ (It was a size I thought fix the paper)

Then I ripped out the papers and had neat piles like this

first I sewed them together into large four patches like this

Then together like this

It took me a few days to come up with a border, then I decided to just sew random dark blue strips together and with a GO 3 1/2″ square die I’d trim those up and add those and do four diagonal blocks in the corners. It now measures 34″ x 44″

I quilted a gentle wave on my long arm, I tried a different method on the machine and it worked fine but I had to work around some things, but nothing you can see on the quilt, it was just a leaning lesson.

I have a bonus/walk in attic room off of my studio and we have lots of junk in there but I also keep non cotton fabrics in there and recently I found this flannel that was the perfect fit for this quilt.

and even the binding was made with leftover blue binding strips!

a cute little donation quilt that was pretty much free to make! BONUS!!