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    String Quilts: 10 Fun Patterns For Innovating And Renovating
    String Quilts: 10 Fun Patterns For Innovating And Renovating
    String Quilts: 10 Fun Patterns For Innovating And Renovating
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    String Quilts: 10 Fun Patterns For Innovating And Renovating

    By Elsie M. Campbell

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    Award-winning quilt maker, Elsie Campbell, loves to take homemade fabric yardage and turn it into stunning, pieced, string quilts, whose leftover yardage can then spawn an appliqued "sister" quilt. Ten patterns for all skill levels. String Quilts is one part innovation, one part thrift, and a whole lot of fun. When author, educator, and award-winning quilt-maker Elsie M. Campbell needs a break from creating precision pieced and -appliquéd beauties, she turns to making string quilts. "This is my playtime," she says. String Quilts is an innovative approach to quilt-making that involves creating your own fabric yardage from new or leftover strips of fabric. This new yardage becomes the basis for creating stunning pieced quilts, whose leftover yardage can then spawn an appliquéd "sister" quilt. The 10 quilts are shown in brilliant full color photography with easy-to-follow instructions, patterns, and diagrams. Also included are "Elsie's Top Tips for Successful String Quilts" and a full-color Gallery of 12 additional quilts by Campbell and other playful quilters, all demonstrating the range and charm of string quilts. Patterns for all skill levels.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Books
    Release dateJan 27, 2015
    ISBN9781680990119
    String Quilts: 10 Fun Patterns For Innovating And Renovating
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    Elsie M. Campbell

    Elsie Campbell began exhibiting her quilts nationally in 1992 and has won numerous prestigious awards. Most recently, she won Best Machine Workmanship awards at several national-level shows. Earlier awards include: first place in the traditional category at the International Quilt Festival in Houston, Texas; Best of Show at Quilt America! in Indianapolis, Indiana; the Mary Krickbaum Award for Best Hand Quilting at the National Quilting Association Show; and the American Quilter’s Society Excellence in Hand Workmanship Purchase Award. Elsie lives in Ponca City, Oklahoma, with her husband of thirty-eight years, Kenneth.

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      Book preview

      String Quilts - Elsie M. Campbell

      Cover Page of String QuiltsTitle Page of String Quilts

      Copyright © 2014 by Elsie M. Campbell

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without the express written consent of the publisher, except in the case of brief excerpts in critical reviews or articles. All inquiries should be addressed to Good Books, 307 West 36th Street, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10018.

      Good Books books may be purchased in bulk at special discounts for sales promotion, corporate gifts, fund-raising, or educational purposes. Special editions can also be created to specifications. For details, contact the Special Sales Department, Good Books, 307 West 36th Street, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10018 or info@skyhorsepublishing.com.

      Good Books in an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.®, a Delaware corporation.

      Visit our website at www.goodbooks.com.

      10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available on file.

      Photo credits: front and back cover, title page, pages 36, 58 by Stephanie Willoughby Stewart; pages 7, 9–11, 14 by Elsie Campbell; all other photos by Kenneth Campbell.

      Illustrations and diagrams by Cynthia Vierthaler

      Design by Cliff Snyder

      Print ISBN: 978-1-56148-675-5

      Ebook ISBN: 978-1-68099-011-9

      Printed in the United States of America

      The diagrams and templates in this book may be reproduced and enlarged for personal or educational use. Excluding diagrams and templates, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner, except for brief quotations in critical articles or reviews, without permission.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Campbell, Elsie, 1949-

      String quilts : a scrap quilt book / by Elsie M. Campbell.

      p. cm.

      ISBN 978-1-56148-675-5 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Patchwork--Patterns. 2. Quilting--Patterns. I. Title.

      TT835.C3566 2009

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Elsie’s Top Tips for Successful String Quilts

      Purple Pride

      Purple Posies

      Unique Batik

      Pots of Flowers

      Dad’s Plaids

      Plaid Poppies

      Picket Fence

      Diamond in the Rough

      Autumn Stars

      Square Dance

      Gallery of String Quilts

      Resources

      Acknowledgments

      About the Author

      Introduction

      My earliest memories include string quilts. Shortly after I was born, my maternal grandmother lovingly stitched a string quilt for my crib from bits and pieces of old clothing and scraps left over from her hand-made dresses. For the foundations, she cut squares from still-usable parts of worn household linens like bed sheets and dish towels. The strips and pieces from the clothing were stitched to the foundation squares, and then those squares were sewn together to make the quilt top.

      Grandma didn’t even buy new batting for her quilts. She simply cut the least worn parts from an old cotton flannel blanket and used that as the middle part of the quilt. Another piece of flannel for the backing, and a few yarn ties, and my crib quilt was complete. This quilt became my blankie, my comfort when things didn’t go as I wished. My sister and I used this little quilt as the door when we made tents over the clothesline. Sometimes we hid under our quilts to read a book by flashlight so Mom wouldn’t know when we stayed up past our bedtimes. I still love this quilt for all the memories attached to it; I wouldn’t trade it for any other quilt in the world.

      Even though I now make much larger and more complicated quilts with elaborate patterns, I still love to make string quilts for my grown children and other family members—to use as throws on a bed or couch, to stay warm at outdoor events, or to cover the ground for picnics. When I make string quilts, I don’t usually plan every piece before cutting and sewing strips together. I just begin stitching scrap pieces of fabric together, enjoying the process with the knowledge that I am making something useful.

      Making string quilts is a playful process, but making sister string quilts, even more so. I have two sisters; we are close in age and have shared many of the same interests and activities while growing up. Linda teaches piano at the college level; Helen loves to knit, both by hand and machine, and has designed and published patterns for knitting. Of course you already know that my passion is quiltmaking. Even though my sisters and I have different looks and interests, my mother would say, But you are cut from the same cloth!

      The sister quilts that are patterned in this book resulted from my experimenting with scraps left over from the Purple Pride string-pieced quilt (see page 21). I wanted to make a medallion quilt, spontaneous in nature. I drew flower shapes on the paper side of paper-backed fusible webbing, and then fused that to the wrong side of the scraps and cut them out. I stitched a background and started placing the flower shapes on the background. I added leaves and stems. Then I decided to add a bow to hold the stems together. The resulting arrangement was so happy and free! The process for making this quilt was like nothing I’d ever attempted before. I thoroughly enjoyed the freedom of not planning every piece before I started. Purple Posies is a charming quilt, whether used on a bed or hung on a wall.

      This crib quilt was lovingly made by my maternal grandmother, Katherine Fast Goebel, from scraps of used clothing, most notably one of the shirts worn by her husband, John William Goebel. My grandmother used a piece of a used cotton blanket as the batting. She never threw away anything that could be incorporated into a quilt.

      Since then, I have made lots of sister string quilts, in addition to the six in this book. You can do it, too. Make a pieced quilt and save the scraps for the appliqué sister. Or start with strings for the appliqué quilt. You don’t have to ever get around to making the pieced sister if you don’t want to.

      Finally, I include a

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