Last year I made a quilt from Bonnie Hunter's Quiltville list of free patterns. The pattern was called Diamond Strings. It was made from strips of scraps that were then sewn to muslin strips on both sides. Then, triangles were cut with the Companion Angle, thus making squares. It was very fun to make and used a lot of scraps. Well, I had these triangles left after cutting the large triangles, and doing as Bonnie does, I didn't waste them. I just seamed them together to make sqaures and then put a border around it. Did I want to machine quilt it or hand-quilt it? Well, hand-quilting would give me something to do while I was watching tv in the evenings, so that is what I did. I quilted 1/4" inside the muslin triangles and then in the triangles made of strings I just quilted every so often in the strings. All of that quilting on the inside of the quilt made it necessary for more quilting in the borders. Thus, the rope design. I bound it in solid black since that was some scrap bias that I had in a drawer. It is very small (13" X 16"), and it fits just perfectly under a lamp on an end table in my living room. So cute! Now, I can say that I am starting the new year by completing projects that have been around for a few months AND I am using up my scraps!
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