Amish Strings is Finished!

Amish Strings is part of the

Liberated Amish Get Together 2012

and features lots of

Anna Williams-inspired UnRuly HSTs.

Come on over to my blog to see more photos!

Quiltdivajulie

Amish String Quilt - An Update

I've been stitching pink strings . . .

And I've been stitching purple strings . . . 

The goal?

Ten 20-inch-long strata for my liberated Amish strings quilt.

(click here to see my 'inspiration' post)

The pinks/purples form the first of two color groups ~

the alternate set (greens and golds) will be ready for photos soon.

Here you can see where I used some of those liberated HSTs.

I love the dynamic use of triangles in so many of the Amish quilts ~

hence a liberated arrangement of HSTs as the center rows in my strata.

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Come on over to my main blog to see how these look trimmed into blocks!

Quiltdivajulie

Time To Begin . . .

Photo courtesy of Google Images

Quiltdivajulie here ~

For many years, 

we lived in Elkhart, Indiana,

near the Amish communities of 

Shipshewana, Middlebury, and Nappanee.

Driving from point A to point B almost always involved

passing by neatly tended Amish farms 

and/or Amish families walking or traveling in their buggies.

Photo courtesy of Google Images

While most people think of darker-colored adult Amish clothing,

we were accustomed to the brighter colors 

many Amish children wore.

Those are the colors I went looking for in my stash.

These are the fabrics that I have pulled.

I spent hours (and hours!) trying to decide 

which quilt I wanted to single out as my inspiration.

You can't see all the sticky notes ~ I cropped off that edge.

(there are a LOT of them)

In the end, I have settled on this quilt.

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I am also participating in Brenda's String Thing Along,

and my liberated version of the Roman Stripe quilt above

will absolutely feature LOTS of strings.

I'll be posting here and there as well as on my own blog.

(linking back and forth as best I can)

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Thanks, Tonya for this challenge!!

I am SO ready to begin!

Quiltdivajulie

Joining the Lib Am Challenge!

I'm dreadful at posting, but I am brimming over with ideas for this Challenge as I adore Amish Abstractions. Hardly a week goes passed without me looking at the book and drooling over the quilts.

I'm currently gathering ideas for another Lib Amish Quilt.

This is my first one which I'm still hand quilting

S is for Stripes or Strings

which is based on Roman Stripes.

For my second quilt, I'm hoping to do this one.

I'm thinking a combination of strings and blocks. I have some lovely orphans and have just received some tiny tiny solid squares - I'm talking 1" maximum!

I'll be back soon when I've got the centre done.

Amish Strings - the flimsy

The flimsy measures 60" x 72" . . .

I'm so happy with the rows of liberated (UnRuly) HSTs!

Thanks, Tonya for the challenge!

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You can see more photos of the flimsy on my blog.

Quiltdivajulie