I'm pretty pleased with my project work yesterday. Everyone has agreed that an 18" center is reasonable and my new concept is going well for me.
A couple of years ago (before I joined the Moratorium!) I bought 50 pounds of "smaller pieces" (under 3 yards, most were traditional 1/3 - 1/2 yd cuts but some fat quarters or large leftover pieces) for $2 a pound from Craig's List. It was a crazy amount of fabric! I never knew Mary in real life but I got to know her through her stash. She had a decided style and sense that although we were both buying fabrics in the early 1980s and I have many of the same pieces, her stash held together with an identity better than my "humane society of fabric". Among the many larger treasures was a bag of tiny little strips that I took to be fan blades, it is a quart? heavy duty ziplock bag larger than a sandwich bag and it was stuffed full and has been in my mind to use ever since... Getting them out and looking at them, I see they were her way of cutting sets of tiny little triangles and that they were meant to go with some basket blocks also in the box. Those blocks finish at 6" and is a stand stacked with 1" finished HST. Mary's hand drawn triangles are there and that's why the pieces aren't necessarily consistent.
Eventually I will end up with an 18" block that should look like woven ribbons based on 3" background squares, and 1.5" ribbons. (We have agreed that we will share what our medallions look like but this will be the only shot of the project I post in this thread until the conclusion).
When I first joined the board, this thread had gotten bumped up and gave me the other part of the idea.
I don't get what the 'reciept' is for when making string quilts
Yesterday's trial went well, had to get used to positioning the points correctly. I was alternating brown/color. The adding machine tape is 2.25" and I will be trimming down to 2" so those bits I missed will be ok, I should just make sure if I'm going to err on one side or the other. Today I'm going to try making some all one color strips... I have plenty of the little blades.
I think with a light spritz of water and a popsicle stick that paper is going to come right off. I might want to tighten my stitches a bit more today as well after I try that.