Boxes of Strings is finished
04-23-2018, 04:14 PM
#13
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Join Date: Feb 2017
Location: St. Louis area
Posts: 212
Great finish, Nancy. I know what you mean about the time and not doing another!
I saw the original quilt when it was posted and thought "I like that". Then the tutorial came up, but I didn't read it right away. When I did, it was 3 pages along. And it was a good thing too because I didn't care for the way it was constructed. After reading everyone's take on making the block I took the ones that worked best for me and started.
This is not a quick block. I used Tartan's method of combining two triangles and squaring to 8 1/2 and for me it's the best way. BUT, it's taking forev...............er! I don't like too many projects going at once.(can we say clutter) so this has to get done. I am at 40 blocks (2 triangles per block) and I decided to do 50 and enough to finish the edges and maybe a black inner border and a piano key border. Maybe. Scrappies should be more fun than this is turning out to be.
I saw the original quilt when it was posted and thought "I like that". Then the tutorial came up, but I didn't read it right away. When I did, it was 3 pages along. And it was a good thing too because I didn't care for the way it was constructed. After reading everyone's take on making the block I took the ones that worked best for me and started.
This is not a quick block. I used Tartan's method of combining two triangles and squaring to 8 1/2 and for me it's the best way. BUT, it's taking forev...............er! I don't like too many projects going at once.(can we say clutter) so this has to get done. I am at 40 blocks (2 triangles per block) and I decided to do 50 and enough to finish the edges and maybe a black inner border and a piano key border. Maybe. Scrappies should be more fun than this is turning out to be.
04-24-2018, 02:31 AM
#18
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Maryland
Posts: 2,579
I'm glad to see how yours came out, I've started mine but alas, the scrap pile is high, time is limited and church Spring Fling (quilt/yard/plant sale) quickly approaches. Still have two 1/2 quilts to quilt for that.
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