Originally Posted by
ArtsyOne
A tip for your string quilt: no matter how ugly a fabric may be on its own, it will work great in a string quilt. First one I made I purposely used all fabrics that were really ugly (from scrap bags) and it's been my prettiest string quilt so far. The ones I made that were "planned" have never turned out as nice.
I learned that when I made a jacket out of a log cabin variation. I used up some fabrics I didn't like that much but they were the right colors. They looked great in the finished jacket. It's one of the things I really like about string quilts. You can use up so many scraps and fabrics you might otherwise not use.