{"id":2279,"date":"2018-11-10T20:17:29","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T04:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/?p=2279"},"modified":"2018-11-11T07:21:42","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T15:21:42","slug":"mountain-strings-flimsy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/2018\/11\/mountain-strings-flimsy\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountain Strings &#8211; Flimsy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/String-Mountains_flimsy_Nov-10-2018.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2275\" src=\"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/String-Mountains_flimsy_Nov-10-2018-278x300.jpg\" alt=\"String Mountains_flimsy_Nov 10, 2018\" width=\"278\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/String-Mountains_flimsy_Nov-10-2018-278x300.jpg 278w, https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/String-Mountains_flimsy_Nov-10-2018.jpg 835w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 278px) 100vw, 278px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is my latest finished flimsy.\u00a0 These blocks were pieced on a broadcloth (not 100% cotton) foundation.\u00a0 \u00a0I piece blocks until I have enough for a project or two and then decide on the layout.<\/p>\n<p>A fabric foundation makes the blocks heavier. In order to reduce the final weight of the quilt, I decided to add some unpieced fabric to the design.\u00a0 Once the blocks were pieced into squares, I placed a light grey Kona solid square on top of them and drew a diagonal line from one corner to the opposite corner across the block.\u00a0 Then I sewed 1\/4&#8243; from the drawn line on both sides of the line.\u00a0 By cutting on the line after stitching, I ended up with two string pieced half square triangles. (Say that a few times quickly!)<\/p>\n<p>I played with layouts and after searching the internet for inspiration, I came up with this layout.\u00a0 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quiltedtwins.com\/new-blog\/\">Quilted Twins <\/a>\u00a0blog is a great source of inspiration and free patterns.\u00a0 I ended up with a layout inspired by the quilt that Becky designed called,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5840c00f3e00be54ff7fd7b8\/t\/5bae1bf3c830256b79fa95db\/1538137151485\/Stringles.pdf\">Stringles<\/a>.\u00a0 I have inverted my &#8220;mountains&#8221; and I have not included the half triangle bits on the end of the rows or at the bottom of the quilt.\u00a0 I think my &#8220;mountains&#8221; look more like they are floating on the grey background.<\/p>\n<p>Mountain Strings finishes as a flimsy at 59.5&#8243; x 65&#8243; which makes a nice lap size quilt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my latest finished flimsy.\u00a0 These blocks were pieced on a broadcloth (not 100% cotton) foundation.\u00a0 \u00a0I piece blocks until I have enough for a project or two and then decide on the layout. A fabric foundation makes the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/2018\/11\/mountain-strings-flimsy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,12,366,71,103,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lap-quilt","category-lap-size","category-mountain-strings","category-scrap","category-string-blocks","category-strings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2279"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2282,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279\/revisions\/2282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}