Chinese Coins

This top is made from some of the extra chinese coins strips I made for Heartstrings. Actually I intended to make Bonnie's String X quilt, but I got carried away with the strings and made way too many rectangles. I still have the 48 sections for the String X, but in the meantime I made this top, which is a variation of a top I saw in a book. Peppermint Sticks is a design by Terry Atkinson in her Spring Cleaning book...this top is pretty much the same, but the size of the blocks and the proportion of the pieced strips vs. background is different. I couldn't find my book when I started piecing, so I went with my faulty memory. My blocks have 4" wide X 10" long finished striped pieces, and the background rectangles are 3" X 10" finished. The ones in the book have 2"X9" finished pieced strips and 3 1/2" X 9" finished background strips. Oh well. In all, this top is about 40X60 and I haven't decided if it will get borders or not. Maybe it will be quilted soon.String X quilt, but I got carried away with the strings and made way too many rectangles. I still have the 48 sections for the String X, but in the meantime I made this top, which is a variation of a top I saw in a book. Peppermint Sticks is a design by Terry Atkinson in her Spring Cleaning book...this top is pretty much the same, but the size of the blocks and the proportion of the pieced strips vs. background is different. I couldn't find my book when I started piecing, so I went with my faulty memory. My blocks have 4" wide X 10" long finished striped pieces, and the background rectangles are 3" X 10" finished. The ones in the book have 2"X9" finished pieced strips and 3 1/2" X 9" finished background strips. Oh well. In all, this top is about 40X60 and I haven't decided if it will get borders or not. Maybe it will be quilted soon.