Two shapes arranged and rearranged to create two different block designs, add a simple quilting motif and the design above is what you get.
Simplify the more complex block design and add a dozen of them around the outer row of blocks leaving just four of the simpler block.
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This project file was started so Icould try to find some interesting ways to turn straight Strings of Beads around corners, and grew to include not so simple strings.
The collection of corners kept growing to connect a wide variety of strings.
The shapes of the beads would be hard work at each end of every bead if you chose to do needle turn applique by hand, but I didn’t even try making String of Beads quilts until fusible webbing hit the market, and I have done them by machine and by hand.
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I love it …though I have to admit that I love pretty much every String of Beads design I have found anywhere, right from the first time I saw a blurry black and white picture of the basic block.
I guess you know I love the second one too.
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