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Interesting!

Love the border … makes it look finished.

Cut out lots of one simple shape, arrange as desired!

Note that it makes it much easier to hold them in place if you add fusible webbing before you cut them out.

I love both of these designs, and note that I have used just one multi coloured fabric in the designs.to make them look scrappy in he virtual world..

One day I played with String of Beads border designs, including getting those borders around corners. The first design shows five identical borders, each with a different corner block.

The second design shows different borders and different corner blocks.

The project file has 20 different borders, with 140 different corners, and some of the corners fit a couple or more different borders.

Luverly!

Even more luverly.

Very dainty.

Love the second design with all the seam lines between blocks covered with beads, though I would be tempted to make this a a whole cloth quilt with no seam lines until the border.

I wonder how many two inch long beads are required for the design above!

Love the first design because of the way the individual borders are welded together by the strings of beads, and I love the second design because each border stands alone.

A fun way to use up lots of little scraps.

The applique can be done using fusible webbing and finishing with either hand embroidery or machine zigzag.

Love the second one!

Wow! Puzzle time!

If I was quilting these designs I would be adding some quilted lines of beads to link up the applique blocks.

Need to add some quilting motifs to this file … could be an interesting project for a wet day!

I like the second design!, though not as much room for quilting.

Very neat and tidy.

I love stringing beads together to make jewelry, but it is more fun string them together to drape around trees, and sometimes I string them on fine wire so they will hold their shape if I twist them into hearts or circles or stars.

Christmas lights!

Perhaps the beads should be white and gold on a dark background … that sounds good to me, good enough to see what it looks like! Still time to get it done before Christmas.

Interesting!

I wonder, how many beads are there?

Still interesting, and not as many beads.

These designs are much easier than they look thanks to fusible webbing, and can be stitched by hand or machine.

Beads again, and I am back home again after a week with 30 like minded friends, old and new, sometimes stitching, sometimes talking, and often laughing.

The shape of the beads in these designs is my favourite applique shape … simple in itself, but can be used to create an unlimited selection of designs on projects from a pot holder to a king size quilt.

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.

Nice one!

The colour of the border/binding makes it look like it has just been added to a very old and faded quilt!

I do like the old part of the quilt though!

Simple, applique and quilting … love it!

Forgot to add quilting to the border! Sorry!

I love playing with these simple leaf shapes, and though I have been sidelined by mixed bead shapes as well, today’s designs today have just the one shape.

Who really needs lots of different shapes when one shape in a variety of fabrics can be arranged like the second design?

I like it.

Much more interesting!

Looks like somebody has been playing with a bead collection, and the results look good.

I think the first one is the winner by a narrow margin.

Interesting mix, Christmas or not!

Love the second design!