I need ideas for strips

Sep 01, 2009 12 Replies

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Sunny 16 years ago

I've been given a big stack of 3" strips -- maybe a yard or two, the fabric is dark green with big yellow and reddish flowers all over it. It's one of those big florals that you never can stand to cut up. Only somebody did. And now I have it and I can't imagine what to do with those strips. So I decided to ask my favorite storehouse of ideas.

If you had a yard of very dramatic fabric cut into 3" strips, what would you do with it?

Sunny

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Kate in MI 16 years ago

Maybe some kind of a weaving effect? Or log cabin -- you could subcut into

1 1/2 " strips?

too late -- I'm pretty brain dead tonight! That's all I can come up with.

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Dr. Zachary Smith 16 years ago

Hi Sunny,

Sounds like a strip quilt to me. The only strip quilts I've played around with are bargellos and Southwestern/Navajo blanket inspired tops.

Doc

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gaw93031 16 years ago

Rail fence quilt focus fabric?

G> I've been given a big stack of 3" strips -- maybe a yard or two, the

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Patti 16 years ago

3" sounds awfully wide to me to use as strips >g< If I had been presented with such a 'bundle', I would subcut (not into a narrower strip, as I think it would be extremely difficult to keep everything parallel), but into squares - or even rectangles - and work up a pattern based on those. Or, if the pattern repeat was considerably different from 3", you could work out where to start cutting, and make one of those four-patch 'posies' were they called. I think Joan did one? and Kathy A. perhaps? . In message , Sunny writes

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Mickie Swall 16 years ago

I made a few of the 4-patch posies, (they are addictable - what fun!) and you have to stack four repeats before you start cutting the strips. Unless

4 of your strips are printed identically the strips won't work with the 4-patch design. Since the strips are 3" wide, I would suggest adding a contrasting strip cut 2" wide on one side and another fabric color to the other half and lay them out with 6" alternating squares and make a Warm Wishes quilt. The pattern is here

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and is for the bed size, but as few as 31 blocks will get you at least a crib size quilt. Can we see the stips? Mickie

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Roberta 16 years ago

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EstelleUK 16 years ago

I would definitely use them with some quieter complementary plainer fabrics and then treat them as jelly rolls, allowing for the larger width. There are patterns available . Maybe Google will have some!

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teleflora 16 years ago

How's this:

Du du DU, du du du DU, du du DU, du du du DU, du - bump - du - bump, du - bump - du - bump

Du du du DU, du DU du du du....

You get the picture.

Cindy

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onetexsun 16 years ago

ROFL -- Cindy I love it! Folks, I think we have a winner!

Sunny

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gaw93031 16 years ago

This showed up on my computer with a prompt to translate into English ;)

G> How's this:

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Maureen Wozniak 16 years ago

On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:13:03 -0500, Sunny wrote (in article ):

Irish Chain?

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Polly Esther 16 years ago

I am just SO outdone. My computer has never suggested that I translate into English. LOL. I frequently bumfuzzle SpellCheck but YES ! we have a winner. Polly

Ginger wrote: This showed up on my computer with a prompt to translate into English ;)

Ginger in CA

"teleflora" wrote:> How's this:

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