Psychedelic String Quilt

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10-25-2012, 02:35 PM

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MimiBug123

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Very pretty and a wonderful to clean out your scrap stash. Congratulations on a really nice job!

10-25-2012, 03:58 PM

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newbiequilter

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What a great time you must have had going thru your scraps to put all this together. Love it!

10-25-2012, 04:11 PM

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hperttula123

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It's beautiful!!! I want to make a string quilt now.

10-25-2012, 08:37 PM

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ukmuminusa

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Quote:

Originally Posted by carolaug

I love how you made the white strip smaller than the others...it that a 1 1/2 strip and the others 2 inch? Looks GREAT!

yes all the white strips were 1 1/2 inch and the rest are between 1 1/2 inches and 2 1/2 inches

10-25-2012, 08:41 PM

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ukmuminusa

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Originally Posted by SandScraps

This is eye candy. Judging by the title of the thread I was expecting glow-in-the-dark neon colours.

Thanks, I asked my son (a teenager) if he were to give this quilt a name what would he call it and he replied "mum, its a bit psychedelic" so thats what I decided to call it. Theres nothing like asking a teenager!

10-25-2012, 08:42 PM

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broomstix

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A great colorful quilt. love the design.

10-25-2012, 08:47 PM

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ukmuminusa

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Pieces2

Cute quilt, love the colorful fabrics. (When making string quilts its not necessary to use paper. Just use a pieces of muslin for a foundation. Saves time from removing all the paper. No mess)

I did think about using muslim, but decided to go the cheap route of using something I already had on hand, and newspaper was what I had, I was also a little concerned about the weight and quilting it if I used muslim and then also used minky to back it. It probably would not make any difference really. I used a paper cutter for cutting my paper blocks and it was pretty quick, it was a labour of love ripping the paper off, but I made sure my stitch length was short so it came off very easily, and in a weird way it was therepeutic ripping off all that paper!