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  • String Quilt

    From sandydollar2015@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Tue Sep 19 07:48:32 2017
    Hope you all have made a string quilt before. I love to use up my left over pieces of material from previous quilts. This helps to get rid of a lot of material. You do have to sew these strips on a foundation and mine were 10 1/2 inches, after
    pressing and squaring up these blocks are now 10 inches. I will use 2 1/2 in sashing strips to finish up my quilt. There is no border but I plan on using one of the pinks that's in the blocks for the binding. These quilts are fun to make and what I
    call a no brainer quilt.
    Sandy$

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  • From gingerwcgc@gmail.com@21:1/5 to sandydo...@gmail.com on Wed Sep 20 07:44:28 2017
    Hi Sandy,
    There is a yahoo! group called Heartstrings, that focuses on string quilts. There are several members of rctq who are also members of that group. The group has a couple of in-person sewing/tieing retreats per year, one in Maine, one in Wisconsin. I am
    trying to get a "LeftCoast/WestCoast" one arranged somehow.

    Have a peace-filled/piece-filled day,
    Ginger in CA
    [email to respond is gaw93031@msn.com[

    On Tuesday, September 19, 2017 at 7:48:34 AM UTC-7, sandydo...@gmail.com wrote:
    Hope you all have made a string quilt before. I love to use up my left over pieces of material from previous quilts. This helps to get rid of a lot of material. You do have to sew these strips on a foundation and mine were 10 1/2 inches, after
    pressing and squaring up these blocks are now 10 inches. I will use 2 1/2 in sashing strips to finish up my quilt. There is no border but I plan on using one of the pinks that's in the blocks for the binding. These quilts are fun to make and what I
    call a no brainer quilt.
    Sandy$

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  • From sandydollar2015@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Sun Sep 24 08:04:43 2017
    Hello Ginger,
    I only make these type of quilts when I just have small amounts of material left over from other quilts, anything from less than 2 1/2 inches or little more. Just a good way go get rid of these scraps and they are fun to do but use a lot of thread.
    Sandy$

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