String Quilt Pattern: Vintage

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String Quilt Pattern

• Use 10 inch squares (or smaller) from better parts of worn blankets or men’s flannel shirt tails, for block foundation Step 1. This also makes the lining for finished quilt. A grand opportunity to use up all those long slender scraps left in the scrap-bag.
• Pre-Shrink Materials That Are New by wetting and pressing.
• Sew strips to the foundation piece as shown Step (1) and (2) Making Block (1) with two sides loose.

Method To Sew Together

• Step (3) Lay block (1) on top of block (2).
• Pin lining on block (1) back out of seams way and sew edge of two blocks together. Flatten seam and whip the lining on block (1) down flat over the seam. Either put the quilt together in strips or make a square and keep adding blocks. Finish edge with a binding.
• The whole trick is to keep the sewn edge of one block inside the loose edge of the other block when putting the blocks together. When quilt is set together the lining is finished too.

Source: Women’s Household Magazine (1963)

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