Diamond Strings

 This is just finished this morning, after taking out 4 blocks of quilting in the black.  I had several events of poor tension, then poor thread choice, and twice I didn't like what I'd quilted, so for now, there is NO quilting in the black pointy parts.  The backing is light, while those black zingers caused a LOT of show-through, or maybe you call them "pokies". 

This quilt is a little bit more vibrant than the photos - it IS vibrant!

For months, I had been slobbering at Amazon.com over  a book called String Revival, and this was the cover quilt.   Wow, I pressed my clicker so fast whtn I saw it!  It was backordered for MONTHS!!!  In the meantime I prepared my fabrics, foundation paper (phone book pages), already had my strips cut, so when the book FINALLY arrived, putting it together was a snap.  The black starts as a template that come to a point about 1/2 inch inside the intersection, so it's on target every time. When the book arrived, it included 30 minute DVD as well, with some video of making 3 of the projects.  THAT was a nice surprise.

   

I quilted the borders differently.  The first inside border was a geometric squares/rectangles, the next was loopy with occasional flowers, and the last wider black border was a kind of innie/outie replicating (IMHO) what I had done in the interior.  This approach adds to the scrappiness and also helps to keep up my quilting skills.

I quilt is on a DSM, a Janome 6500 MC.


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