Oh, Rachel @ Stitched in Color imagined that our Festival of Strings might be ladies in sunhats in a backyard, slinging our quilts over a clothesline and swilling lemonade. So lovely! So southern!
Never having been one to play along, I chose to sling my quilt over
a huge metal rhino, natch.
I usually don’t make much of finished quilt tops, but Rachel’s deadline is midnight on 5/30 and I’d be cutting it close to have this quilted by then. And no rhino pictures.
I did make a back
and this is ready to baste
and the Seacoast Modern Quilt Guild meets this Saturday, so I really want to have it quilted and bound to show off. Can I make it?
Really, I used all string scraps, from various Trader Joe’s bags in my closet. The white is Kona Bone. I used Rachel’s Ziggy Strings tutorial (so fun! DO IT). My husband helped me pick off the foundation paper backing.
And the rhino lives at New England Biolabs in Ipswich MA, where Nate works. He does not have a name. Roy?
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I LOve this quilt!!!!
How lovely of Roy Rhino to pose so beautifully so you could show off your gorgeous quilt! So much more ‘venturesome than ladies in sun hats sipping lemonade!! Love it!! Go girl – you can get it done.
What a cool quilt and a fabulous quilt photo!
Oh, I love this one! And the rhino! I lve how the blocks and white lines look random, but there’s order in the colour.
Love the rhino and think your husband is a champ for working on the paper part with you. Your top is amazing!
I have photographed one mine with a giant fish before. But now you are upping the stakes. Challenge accepted!!!
LOVE this. And the rhino.
LOVE how you laid this out. It’s like a gorgeous fractured rainbow!
I love this happy rainbow quilt. It looks great with Mr. Rhino too. It makes me want to go find a creative quilt shoot. Hmmm, statues in my neighborhood…
I love how this is laid out, beautiful and so different. I wish I had a rhino for my quilts, he’s very useful.
This is such a great quilt! Love your layout and the gorgeous colors.
Very pretty!
So lovely! Great job Laura! And what a good husband you have. I don’t think I would be able to convince mine to help me with such a task.
Love how different it is from Rachel’s even though you used the same block. Can’t wait to see it quilted and finished. Very nice!
you absolutely CAN get it done!! good luck, it’s beautiful!
This is so pretty and I love the quilt on a Rhino!
I love the way your colors dance across the quilt top! 😀
And for the record…your shot of the live oaks and moss…made me homesick! 🙂
Too cool! Love the rhino. Go, go, go…..you can do it:) I am gonna have to check out that tutorial.
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This is great! I really like the layout of blocks you used.
Love the quilt. The arrangement is so nice and a bit different. Just enough to make it interesting. I really do like it! Toni
So Pretty! There are so many weird statues near my house, I am inspired to go throw quilts on them!
Fantastic! What a creative use of the ziggy strings block. My favorite so far!
Laura, the quilt is beautiful. I hope you win and I can’t wait to see it at guild!
Love your quilt and pictures
Lovely quilt – great rhino for photo shoots. Peeling that paper off the backs is probably the worst part of string quilts.
Roy the Rhino….sounds fantastic to me. He likes your quilt top and wants to keep it as his own personal blanket. Rhinos get chilled in winter and sunburn in summer so this quilt could serve two purposes. Wait, three–those colors are perfect for him.
Congrats on winning!!! Love the photo of the Rhino
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