Almost Over

This busy week is almost over. One more commitment today and that is to work at the quilt show this afternoon and help take down quilts. Since my dog got me up so early I thought I would go ahead and do a post. I am going to start at the beginning of my very busy week.
On Monday I attended a workshop that our guild was hosting. Bonnie Hunter of Quiltville.com was our teacher. If you go to her web site you can get lots of free patterns for scrap quilts including the string spiderweb block we made in the workshop. Check out her fun blog too.Here she is working very hard on getting that box of strips to right of the picture whittled down.

This block was fun to make to make. I love scrap quilts but the part I don't like is cutting out every different piece for every block. If you want something you don't really have to think about and you want to get rid of scraps, this was a great way to do it. Each section starts out with a triangle piece of newsprint paper. You glue or pin the center piece of fabric to the triangle and you just add different widths of fabric to each side of the center.  No cutting because we had permission from Bonnie to rip strips the width we wanted them. After the sections are made you tear out the paper which comes out very easily because you have shorten your stitch length. Then four sections are sewn together to make a block and no worries about matching points. So if you want a stress free day of sewing try this technique.

I started out with this pad of paper that I bought at the dollar store. Bonnie stated that you could use the pages of an old phone book because the ink will not come off as much with an old book. You want to use paper that will tear off easily.
Here are my two bags. I decided to go through my stash and find little bits that I had saved because I liked the fabric so much. Those are in the second bag.The stars on my blocks are going to be white/off white scraps.

Here is a picture of one not finished. You can see the paper triangles under the fabric strips. The next three pictures are of other ladies blocks. I made two and am working on some more so that I can get four together.

Have a great weekend.

With Passion, Carrie P.

ps Check out Selvage blog for spiderweb string blocks using selvages.

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