String Star Finish

Thanks to lots of encouragement from all my scrappy blogging friends, I powered through and finished up the quilting on my String Star and got it bound this week!

This quilt was designed and created throughout 2017 as I participated in the Rainbow Scrap Challenge and made string blocks in each color of the month.

By December, I had the flimsy finished, and then it took a back seat to other projects  for a few months! 

Here it is today with quilting and binding finished - 

I bound it in a navy and white dot leftover from finishing my Dancing Monkeys quilt earlier this year.

Here is a shot of the back - lumps, bumps, and all!

And, after a run through the washer and dryer, here's how it looks!

You'll have to take my word for it, but the "crinkle" factor, after washing and drying, made all the difference.  The lumps and bumps from my quilting frustration softened up and shrinkage seems to have tightened everything up.  Finished dimensions are about 46 x 46, and before washing it was 49 x 49.  That definitely did make a difference!

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