strings of applique beads

String of Beads Roundabout 35, 36 from Virtual Quilter

Interesting tangle of beads!

An even more interesting tangle … love it!

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String of Beads 15, 16 from Virtual Quilter

Challenge for today … how many applique beads are there in these two quilts?

Despite it being a fairly big number, these are much simpler to make than most other applique designs. All the beads are the same… 2 inches long, .75 inch wide, cut from fabric with fusible web on the wrong side … arrange on the 12.5 inch background square, iron, stitch by hand or machine.

I love the second design!

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String of Beads 13, 14 from Virtual Quilter

I love just about every String of Beads design I have ever seen, but the one above is one of the best ones.

However the one above is also a contender for entry into the favorites list., but this morning the first one is the winner.

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Beaded Border Strings 17, 18 from Virtual Quilter

In the design above I was playing with ways to get around corners with the beads, without getting them too tangled. I like the results.

Two designs, and ten ways to get around corners … this is FUN!

As you may know I like playing with quilting designs too, and I have found a great post on how to quilt applique blocks … and quilts.

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Beaded Blocks and Borders Batik 31, 32 from Virtual Quilter

I love Strings of Beads, and all the variety of designs possible with just one simple shape.

The second design is my favourite for today!

I wonder how many little leaf shapes would be needed to make todays designs? They not too hard to cut as there are no fiddly corners, and they can be cut more easily with a die cutter, and my Scan’n’Cut makes it even easier, and setting out pattern sheets in Electric Quilt makes it even easier.

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Beaded Border Strings 16, 17, 18 from Virtual Quilter

The design above was one of several I have in this project file which use the simplest border string, and a collection of the corner designs which I found, and I was curious enough this morning to see how many assorted String of Beads borders I had, and how many corners.

Well, there are twenty assorted strings for side borders, and over one hundred and twenty ways to get them around corners, and many of them will work for different side strings … in the second design all the corners will work for a single string in the centre of a ...

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