Maple leaves + string flimsy

I sure am loving having a large design wall! Sunday I started cutting parts for these maple leaves. I actually did make twelve leaves but them set eight of them aside and continued to make...

this wall hanging. Having a flimsy finish ready to quilt later on is a good feeling. The hope is to finish the other two in a little while. This time of year allows me to jump around from one season to another a bit with starts, progress and getting projects to the finish stage. Keeps the boredom away;)

 

But I promised you a flimsy finish with the strings! The pieced border used up more strings. In my mind I was planning on adding a small white border on the outside. But since this is for a donation I don't know that adding the white would be a good deal. So I decided not. 

These were some of the strings I started with, I already used some before I snapped the photo. After pressing and laying out I rough cut them into 4" pieces. Chain piecing two together, then taking those and adding another set and so on until I had one long strip. Which I then cut into a 3" wide strip.

First I added the left side border and then the right side. 

After piecing two more long strips for the top and bottom this little stack is what I had left from the small pile I started with.

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String progress + cross stitch

 I have made a little progress on my bright string quilt. The white sashing with orange cornerstones got added. I cut the sashing at 1.5". Next I will add a white border all around cut the same as sashings. The plan from there is to make a piano key type border with more strings. 

There is a finish today also...A little cross stitch pillow using a pattern from Primrose Cottage. This was one of their free monthly patterns. If you didn't know they offer a free cross stitch and a free quilting pattern in their monthly newsletter but you have to sign up.

Did you notice the background color of the Aida cloth? I used a green colored pencil and went over the white Aida to get a light green. I have no idea how this will hold up over time but I don't plan to wash it so I am not worried. This piece has been stitched since November and just now finished it into a little six inch pillow. 

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Strings and things

 I am back to my quilting studio as of yesterday. This is what I worked on a bit before we left for the week. Colorful string blocks sewn to phone book pages(I saved the books for years, we had a land line until last year). I don't have to but I am planning on sashing these with white and a colorful or possibly black cornerstone so I don't have to deal with all those seams coming together.

Here are a few scenes from our boondocking/atving trip. This was our view from the camper in one direction.

We have visited this arch in past years and is a favorite spot of ours.

Parts of the desert was alive with blooms making it so pretty and the aroma wasn't bad either!! See my hand in there for perspective.

Another of the events we went to see were the powered para gliders. Late one afternoon we counted at least 30 units in the sky at one time. These gliders treated us to a little formation which was fun to see.  A few times last week the gliders came over our camping area and waved to us. 

Fields of purple flowers treated us along the highway too.

Now comes the cleanup work of laundry and cleaning the fifth wheel. Hope you all have had a great week. I will catch up reading blogs this week.

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