Friday, May 25, 2007

Color Catcher Strings


This is a flimsy that I put together today.
The blocks are my Color Catcher foundation pieced string blocks. After piecing my strings onto the used Color Catchers, I trimmed the blocks to 4" x 9 1/2" I then pieced 3 1/4" x 9 1/2" strips of black fabric to either side of the strips to make blocks that were 9 1/2" square. The top was finished off with a 4" plain black border.
The top finished at 52 1/2" x 78 1/2".
The light area in the center of the quilt is the sunlight showing through. Today was such a pleasant day weather wise.
I am now working on putting together my used dryer sheet string blocks. I hope to have that flimsy finished this weekend as well.

11 comments:

  1. The blocks are great. Such colourful blocks set in the black. Really striking. What are colour catchers? It is probably something really simple that I should know -- LOL

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  2. Nothing looks better to me than bright colors on a black background. It's gorgeous.

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  3. Great looking quilt! Looks like stained glass.

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  4. Turned out very well, just love the contrast with the black.

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  5. Oh, this looks wonderful! Almost like it is woven the way you turned the blocks up and down and then sideways. The black really sets this off.

    Okay, I can see I must save me some more color catchers.

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  6. Great recycling! Love the pattern, too.

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  7. Ohhh no.... I'm no supposed to be getting any ideas about quilts to make- there is no time and no way. This one looks like a really good way to use up scrap pieces- now i'll nover throw anything out! thanks- maybe there is a way to bookmark this quilt so that I can make it when I get back to my machine.

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  8. Wow-it really looks great. I just love black backgrounds.

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  9. Those strings look fantastic against the black and I love the way you've arranged them. It reminds me of being in church as a kid when all was quiet and looking at the stained glass windows with the summer sun shining through from outside

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  10. What a great way to set those colour catcher blocks. Super :)

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  11. Oh, that's very nice. I love how the sun is shining through. It would be great to hang that in a huge window like stained glass. :)

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