Gray String Quilt

I finished this gray string quilt and it's now in the gift shop. I had stitched most of the blocks a while ago and never put them together. I found them and laid them out to see if I had enough blocks and what pattern I wanted before stitching them into rows and putting it together. I liked this arrangement of the diamond and the other blocks surrounding the one diamond shape. I added a couple of borders and quilted it to a black polar fleece backing and then sewed the binding on. Polar fleece is a great soft backing and you really don't need any batting as the polar fleece it thick enough on its own. It is still technically a quilt as I did sew the gray strings onto a foundation material, so I do have 3 layers, which is what a quilt is: a top layer, a middle layer and a back layer. 

I think using gray prints that have bits of other colors in them gives this quilt a bit more interest. Plus the various shades of grays give it that shadow look. From a distance it does have an artsy quality to the quilt, almost like looking at a painting photographed in black and white so it looks like it is from an era before color photography.

Scrap happy stitching!

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