Meadowsweet Fabric Destash Quilt

Quilting Cubby | August 4, 2016 | Free Quilt Patterns, How To Quilting

String Quilting Is Perfect To Reduce Scrap Stash

String quilts are fun putting small strips of fabric together. Eye catching colors start to emerge on scrap pieces that seemed quite lifeless in the scrap bag. Throw out a pile and start putting together your own combination!

Using Meadowsweet fabrics provides a happy vibrancy for a pretty string quilt. A strip of white pops the beautiful florals. Put together blocks using a collection, or make it scrappy.

For the blocks to finish at 12″, Tina from Seaside Stitches, used a 3″ pieced strip, plus 1″ strips of white, then then 5″ squares cut on the diagonal for the corner triangles. Fabrics for Tina’s block is Meadowsweet, or find similar fabrics are perfect for this project and choose your own combination.

This lap quilt is made with 12 String-X blocks set 3 across by 4 down, totally scrappy and so pretty in purple!

Bonnie Hunter of Quiltville provides a great tutorial sewing with strings using an old sheet as the foundation fabric! Or use foundation paper. Old phone book pages works really well as soft paper tears away quite easily. Quilts are unique, they’re fun to sew, as each creative block starts to shine.

Click Here For Bonnie Hunters “String Quilting” Tutorial