New Name

UNDER THE ROSE has a new name its.......BY THE SEAM.
I had trouble with the old web address so thought it would be best to change it.
Thanks for coming by and please leave me a comment so I know that you were here. Marlene

June 8, 2010

String Quilt Block

Goodness, I have not been on the computer for a while now. We are having a lot of thunderstorms here and we have to "unplug" during the storms, they get a bit violent at times. I am just stealing a little time on here before the next one hits us.I will get back to reading blogs soon, I hope!

Diamond X
In the meantime I have been doing a little cleaning and then in between storms I fire up my sewing machine and have been working on this block. I have seen so many of these string blocks and I like them all. I got on a site that someone else had posted a link to, can't remember who it was, sorry. Anyway she a link to a string quilt in a diamond shape. I had already done a couple of string blocks but when I saw the diamond I liked it. I got to playing with it a bit and came up with this block. My hubby said that is a Diamond X. It took me a couple of tries before I got it so it was workable. The blocks are trimmed to  6.5 X 9.5. Here is the link to the web site
http://www.maryquilts.com/strings/string-diamonds/

I wish I could remember who it was that posted the link first, maybe Quiltluvr? Not sure. There are some links on my tabs and it is listed there as well. I better go it is getting black here again and the county next to us is under a tornado watch. It is perfect weather for one too, hot and steamy!
See you all soon! Oh and thanks Amy for all those scraps because most of them were yours!

4 comments:

Amy said...

Looks great!! your welcme for the scraps.. Now if I had some here to work with.happy sewing,Amy

Jessica said...

What a cool design! Filing that one away for a future quilt...

Ivory Spring said...

Marlene,

This is absolutely gorgeous - I love love love it!

oldbatt said...

You did a great job with your string quilt! I love the "diamond X" name too! Lisa