Finish It Up Friday :: Twisted Strings

Of course today is the day it's actually raining because I needed a quick quilt photo - it seems like the Murphy's Law of quilt photos, it can be gorgeous, perfect, amazing weather and as soon as the camera comes out it's rain and/or gale force winds. So porch photos it is!

I had so many strings left over after my Desert Strings quilt (and truth be told I'm still so in love with them) that I decided to make another version. I was also really missing my block-a-day habit I'd gotten into - it's just such a great way to get the work going without too much thinking, which is usually the thing that keeps the work from happening. I have the materials all ready to go (decisions basically eliminated = procrastination eliminated) and I just get up and sew a little while my child watches PBS kids. It works for both of us.

So I wondered what would happen if I did wonky strings at angles NOT corner to corner, just hand placed without any measuring. So It turned out that I put all my strings in almost the EXACT same place for the first six blocks - so much for wonkiness. 

Apparently my brain just wants ORDER. SO then I laid out the last six blocks ahead of time and put the strings on the last six WITH A PLAN for wonkiness, making sure they did NOT line up. 

Are you feeling that irony?!

Then I ended up with basically slightly wonky string diamonds. And I didn't love it.

At all.

But then I had the idea to turn every other block and voila, the magic happened!

Love.

I have many more "what if's" about string quilts so I expect you'll be seeing more of these.

Details:

15.5" blocks all with a 2.5" Kona white center string

45"x60" with flannel back

Straight line quilted to echo the strings by me.

Thanks for stopping by!

Linking up with Thank Goodness It's Finished Friday which is hosted by

Quilt Matters this week.