String Clean - Ironic!

I've cruised through many blogs over the past couple of months and saved many pictures and downloaded patterns for scrap quilts to help use up my stash - one of my 2012 goals. I found a really cool picture of a string pieced star quilt and used it for inspiration to make my own. I was looking for the blog/maker to be able to post a picture and give the site credit for the inspiration. Well, I found the original source and I found something very interesting and ironic!

The inspiration quilt is called Spring Clean and it's in issue 8 of Fat Quarterly's newsletter (http://www.fatquarterly.com/issues/issue-8). Once I tracked down the source, I bought an electronic version of the newlsetter as there are a couple of other projects I'd like to make. So without further ado, here's the first block of my "String Clean" quilt:

The original Spring Clean quilt has 9 blocks and finishes at 90 inch square. I'm going to make a 4-block version as the block above is 30 inches square. I've pieced enough sub-blocks to make the next block. After that, I'm out of long white/cream/light strings.

Here's the ironic part.... I made my blocks 8 inches since I had foundations from muslin cut for something else and just used those...turns out, the pattern called for 8 inch blocks so I made the same size as the pattern!! I didn't follow the directions from the newsletter as I had already made the blocks, but I think it's pretty funny that I'm making the same size... the newsletter had paper pieced foundations so that's a little different but still a lot the same.