My Pink Strings

Another string quilt that I made in January or February of 2010.  I added the borders today so this one now goes from the "Needs Borders Pile" to the "Ready to Quilt Pile".  I have been working on adding borders to several quilt tops.(I am also trying to finish the handquilting on my Spring Morning quilt and working on 2 knitting projects at the same time.)  This quilt top measures at 53" x 65". I added a 1" (1/2" finished) white border to mimic the diagonal string in the block centres and also added a border of 2" squares. The 2" squares were gifted to me by a quilting buddy.

 I always learn something every time I make a quilt..With this quilt top I learned that I should NOT have removed the paper from the back of the string blocks  before adding my border!  I knew that in my head before I did it but I chose to give it a try and see what would happen. I figured I could deal with any stretching. Well, the stretching was crazy and I had to do some fancy sewing to get it to be as close to straight as I could.  I also should have staystitched the edge.  Lesson learned!!
This one is for my daughter. She loves pink.