Light centers challenge

I've posted this quilt previously but now that it is finished, I'm posting again to show the finished piece. This is what I did for the light center challenge on the Heartstrings Yahoo Group. The centers are a light peach. After choosing the center fabric, I then separated my strings into 2 groups: aquas/teals and others. The quilt is set 4 x 6 blocks. With 9" finished blocks, that made the quilt 36" x 54" so I added side borders to give it a bit more width. The borders added another 6" so the quilt is now 42 x 54, a not so long and narrow size. The quilt is backed with blue fleece the edges of which are turned to the front for binding. 

String Quilt with Stars

My string quilt with 4 point stars is completed. This is a baby size of 36" x 48". It's backed with white fleece. I'm going to hang onto this one for awhile so I'll have a quilt ready when I need a baby gift. 

On My Design Wall

Having seen a quilt made with this block, I thought it looked interesting and so I started it last fall. I had the majority of the 6" (finished size) string squares done but had only added the light  triangles to 4 squares, enough for 1 block. I was discouraged because the triangles weren't working. I hadn't adequately thought through the cutting process. Thankfully I'd only cut a few pieces because 1/2 of what I cut were backwards and wouldn't work. 

Over the weekend, I pulled out this project and gave it another try. For the triangle shapes I cut rectangles and then, before cutting the rectangles in half, I checked to see that all them were right side up then cut them on a diagonal, corner to corner. That worked!

I have now stitched together a few more string squares and have added the triangles to all the squares.  I'm ready to stitch everything together and will soon have a finished quilt top (baby size).