Sweet Strings is complete! The un-embroidery and re-embroidery is complete. I decided instead of wandering out, in the bright and blistering cold, to stick with the picture I took last week, when there was no snow, even if it is a bit brighter than does the colors justice. I can not imagine I could do any better with the way the sun was reflecting today.
Because the colors of this quilt reminded me so much of candy colors, Smarties in particular and because it is a string quilt, I chose to name it Sweet Strings. It is the second, no make that third, (no picture of Hugo’s), string quilt I’ve made. My base blocks use a piece of printer paper cut square, so 8 1/2″. Once they have been quilted, then washed and crinkled, my blocks are 7 1/2″.
Sweet Strings
38″ x 46″
Machine pieced, Machine quilted.
2013
Created for A Mother’s Hope.
I’d like to try a larger block, string quilt, next time. I bought yards of a white cotton that turned out to be too thin for quilts, not quite the bargain it seemed…. but I think it will be perfect for the foundation piecing of a string quilt. Plus I won’t have to peel it all away, like you do with paper, I’ll just leave it for a thin extra layer.
And as for my book finish this week….
Townie by Andre Dubus III won’t get out of my head. I really enjoyed it. I always think it is interesting to see where people come from and how they got to where they are going and the circumstances, along the way, that caused them to take the path they did. This one I picked up while browsing the library. I had no idea who this guy was, and why he wrote his memoir, but I liked the book description.
After their parents divorced in the 1970s, Andre Dubus III and his three siblings grew up with their exhausted working mother in a depressed Massachusetts mill town saturated with drugs and crime. To protect himself and those he loved from street violence, Andre learned to use his fists so well that he was even scared of himself. He was on a fast track to getting killed – or killing someone else. He signed on as a boxer.
Nearby, his father, an eminent author, taught on a college campus and took the kids out on Sundays. The clash of worlds couldn’t have been more stark – or more difficult for a son to communicate to a father. Only by becoming a writer himself could Andre begin to bridge the abyss and save himself. His memoir is a riveting, visceral, profound meditation on physical violence and the failures and triumphs of love.
Sewfrench 
So pretty! Love those soft beautiful colors… and thank you for the book recommendation too. I loved the House of Sand and Fog and have also enjoyed some of his short stories.
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I love the colors too! BEAUTIFUL!!!
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It is very sweet! Fun fact: what you call smarties, Canadians call rockets. Smarties for us (and UK) are candy-coated chocolate similar to but a little flatter than M&Ms.
I’ll be adding the book to my ever-growing list of things I’ll probably not get a chance to read. I really must make more of an effort… lol.
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You sure had a fun, and nice time stringing your quilt. It is beautiful, and so are the colors. http://projectsbyMtetst.wordpress.com
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The string quilt is beautiful!
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Hi! ‘Sweet Strings’ is so beautiful! In the photo it has same sweet colours as the lovely photo of Bambies! That photo is like from a fairy-tale! I have never made a string quilt; would be nice to try! x Teje
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I love your sweet string quilt, it’s so soft and feminine. I really love string quilts, I just can’t push myself through the bordem of making them. ~ Tabatha at BendingPins.com ~
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Popping over from TGIFF – your finish is so sweet and the name perfect. Thanks for the book review.
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Sweet Strings is beautiful! I absolutely love the colors.
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Whoop Whoop 🙂 Yes – this one sure is soft and sweet. 🙂
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Wow, it’s beautiful! I love the soft colours and asymmetrical design!
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Whoop whoop! That’s a wonderful quilt – soft and sweet looking!
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Love the way you place your string blocks and I think those soft colors look great! Really a nice quilt.
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Beautiful quilt – soft and sweet! I love it and the pattern.
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What a beautiful, sweet quilt!
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Such a beautiful quilt!
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