Happy New Year and welcome to 2012. During winter break I finally found some time to sew and I finished up this cutie. This is a string quilt and I love it. It is one of my favorite quilts that I have made. It was made with scrap pieces.
These are 8 inch blocks. I drew a one inch line down the middle of each and then wrote what color I was going to sew. This is actually a very important step because at first I was just making blocks and when I went to match them up I didn't have enough of certain colors. At that point I had to pull blocks apart and start over. So I got organized and starting writing out colors and pining blocks together. So to make this you just start sewing strips together, one after the other. Then when you have a completed block you turn it over and cut off the excess.
After a while you have tons of blocks and your quilt starts to take shape. I read somewhere on the web that this was a hard quilt to make but I just found it so much fun. I loved finishing a block and then adding it to the quilt to see how it looked.
Before I new it I had a finished quilt. I used some left over strips to make a binding and added a backing. Since I was using scraps to make this quilt I also used some scrap batting. This quilt is going to a special little girl who will love spending time with this burst of color. If you have kids then you are familiar with the Jack and Annie series. Two sibs who find adventure in their magic tree house. Well while reading the Winter of the Ice Wizard to my boys tonight I came across this great line, "for wisdom is knowledge learned with the heart as well as the head." I like that and it is a great lesson for old and young.
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