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String Tulips Quilted and Gone from Fret Not Yourself

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs but not every man's greed.

~Mahatma Gandhi

Quilting

Taking a {hopefully short} break from the baseball quilt. Family members asked for quilts for their friends having babies and this quilt was the easiest to finish up. The top was completed in April. It's better to quilt them soon after. What looked good becomes indifferent with time.

String Tulip baby quilt 3

The tulip petals are outlined and echoed. The white background is stippled.

String Tulip 3 stipple quilting detail

The ESS blocks are free-hand quilted in a zig zag ...

added by Ann 2 years, 9 months ago. under #ahiqstringtulipqal , string quilt , string tulips

String Tulip QAL Month 3 from Fret Not Yourself

A party without cake is really just a meeting.

~Julia Child

Quilting

So many household repairs needed attention that it was hard to push forward on the tulips. How did you all do? It's no problem if you're behind; we're all working at our own pace. And several quilters have branched in their own directions. For example, Kaja pieced tulips and Julie created an applique so lively I can see the blooms blowing in a breeze. Not only are her colors gorgeously bold, but her tulips are strung horizontally across the petals rather than vertically. Be sure ...

added by Ann 3 years ago. under #ahiqstringtulipqal , string piecing , string tulips

String Tulip QAL Month 2 from Fret Not Yourself

The main thing is to have a gutsy approach and use your head.

~Julia Child

Quilting

Welcome to the second month of the #AHIQStringTulipsQAL. How did the first month go? I anticipate many inventive variations of the ESS blocks. And explosions of color and creativity.

Three people have already shared the blocks they've finished to date. Look at them all and compare how the choices they made change this block. Each has interpreted the basic directions to suit herself. None is "more right" than the others. It's simply a matter of choosing your own way.

Sharon at ascensionheart ...

added by Ann 3 years, 1 month ago. under #ahiqstringtulipqal , james herriot , reading , string tulips

AHIQ Prompt January 2021: String Tulip QAL from Fret Not Yourself

"Hope" is the thing with feathers -

That perches in the soul -

And sings the tune without the words -

And never stops - at all -

And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -

And sore must be the storm -

That could abash the little Bird -

That kept so many warm -

I've heard it in the chillest land -

And on the strangest Sea -

Yet - never - in Extremity,

It asked a crumb of me.

~Emily Dickinson

2021 opens so hopefully. Here goes!

Quilting

As always, many ideas for a prompt run through my mind but something different kept coming to the top. Repeated comments ...

added by Ann 3 years, 3 months ago. under #ahiqstringtulipqal , ahiq , electricsocketshockblock , string quilt , string tulips

String Tulips 2 Quilt Positively Finished from Fret Not Yourself

A president doesn't have to be brilliant.

He doesn't have to be clever. You can hire clever.

But you can't buy courage and decency, and you can't rent a strong moral sense.

A president must bring those things with him.

~Peggy Noonan

Quilting

My second String Tulips has more yellows in the border. {I learned that from the Electric Socket.}

Four string tulips form an X in the center surrounded by a border of X string blocks in multicolors.

String Tulips on Blue baby quilt

That let me choose tulip petals that are lighter in value than the first. More yellows here, too. I can see more yellow will be useful in future quilts as ...

added by Ann 3 years, 6 months ago. under #positivethinking , book recommendation , michelle kuo , string quilt , string tulips

A Second String Tulip Started from Fret Not Yourself

It takes courage to live through suffering and it takes honesty to observe it.

~ C. S. Lewis

Quilting

The first set of Electric Socket blocks have been on the design wall long enough. After so many supportive comments, I've come to like the craziness, too, but still wanted to play with tulips. Fortunately there are still more blocks waiting to be sewn. Now I'm basically repeating the previous tulip quilt but with a brighter border. The blocks were arranged to flow from yellow to red to blue to green to orange and back to yellow around the border ...

added by Ann 3 years, 7 months ago. under #positivethinking , book recommendation , sara seager , string quilt , string tulips

String Tulip Quilt Finished from Fret Not Yourself

Prejudices are rarely overcome by logic.

Not being founded in reason, they cannot be destroyed by logic.

~Tryon Edwards

Quilting

It was worth all the time it took to remove the border quilting. The spiral design didn't add anything to the quilt because it was hidden among the strong Xs and the tension was a mess. With the machine cleaned, the needle changed, and thread rethreaded it's sewing perfectly {except for my own bobbles.}

Four crossed tulips center the medallion with string blocks forming Xs as a border

String Tulips on Green baby quilt

Quilting began with a few free-motion arcs on the tulips then SID around the inside and outside borders ...

added by Ann 3 years, 7 months ago. under #ahiqpositivethinking , book recommendation , elizabeth george speare , string quilt , string tulips

Two Steps Forward and Three Back from Fret Not Yourself

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

~Carl Sandberg

Quilting

All the border seemed to need was some quick FMQ but a huge problem arose. The bobbin thread pulled too tightly and then too loosely. It has taken the rest of the week to unsew this mess.

Ripping out poor quilting stitches

Next week I'll try something else... right after I give the machine a thorough cleaning.

But the stack of ...

added by Ann 3 years, 7 months ago. under #ahiqpositivethinking , aloha shirt , string piecing , string quilt , string tulips

Working on the String Tulip Quilt from Fret Not Yourself

"We're all just walking each other back home."

~Ram Dass

Quilting

Delightful as I find this quilt it was set aside while I finished some that needed to be gifted sooner. Finally I can get back to it. For smaller quilt like this, doubling my folding tables makes the perfect basting table. They fit perfectly with no time wasted moving and re-stabilizing the quilt package.

A few lines of quilting hold the petals. None of the fabric behind them was cut away. Slow, steady sewing was key to getting this part done.

String Tulips pin basted

Combined with stippled ...

added by Ann 3 years, 7 months ago. under #ahiqpositivethinking , #positivethinking , string quilt , string tulips

String Tulips from Fret Not Yourself

Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over

what impression he is making or about to make.

~Bruce Lee

Quilting

As if the first set wasn't enough, here's a second set of the Electric Socket strings. {Thanks for the perfect name, Julie.} Not so much yellow here and the green blocks aren't resonating.

Long skinny strings of fabric in a variety of prints form Xs when set together.

More string X blocks

Leaving them on the design wall gave me lots of time to arrange and rearrange all those string blocks. I moved something every time I walked by but they were just too crazy together. It could be the mix ...

added by Ann 3 years, 9 months ago. under #ahiqpositivethinking , #positivethinking , book recommendation , designing a quilt , string piecing , string tulips

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