Teen, I love your Kite. And, you can either include the string to put on after it's quilted or you can add it yourself. I just adore the Kite block. My sister, mother and I used to fly them all the time when we were much younger girls. It was so much fun. I grew up in NY and when we moved to Florida when I was 10, we taught all the neighbors how to fly kites. Most of them had never done it before.