Yellow Grey String quilt is done

I started this quilt in October.

I’m sure it was inspired by Bonnie Hunter’s String quilt book I had bought recently, but I remember I also had a bunch of 8 1/2″ muslin squares AND a ton of grey scraps. So I decided to play in EQ8 and this is what I came up with first

 

Then I flipped the colors in the four patch blocks

and changed the direction of the four patches

Once I was happy with that design I added borders, I added a 2″ inner border because with 8″ blocks, the math would work with 4″ squares on the second border, then lastly another 2″ border

I can’t find other pictures of the process, but here’s the top done, then I put it in a bin as I didn’t have enough grey to finish the borders, but the yellow and white squares were cut for the second border

Of course I used Accuquilt to cut out all the block pieces and trim the string blocks!

Finally I got some grey with a fabric order from connectingthreads and I added a yellow binding

I quilted it on my Juki machine (I know the picture is blurry) it’s a grid design that’s kind of reminds me of an old Greek design

I off-set every other row so it would have a half block design by the edges, but what I learned already, is to “optimize” the design AND go in reverse, it’s a few clicks in the program in QCT4, so the machine finished this quilt rather quickly! I just need to figure out if there’s a way to program it to do 3 rows at a time, so I don’t have to get up every 5 minutes to tell it to continue on the next row?!

For the back I used a grey too so it’s hard to see the quilting

of course the batting is Warm and Natural!

The quilt finished at 48″ x 60″

a fun scrappy quilt!

I listed it in my ETSY shop here