Sisters Come With Strings Attached

     Sisters come with strings attached started out as a spur of the moment activity one evening at a gathering of the Stitching Sisters in Fayetteville TN.   Our sister Darlene was a real “matchy matchy” quilter when the evening started.  We decided to dart up to her studio, cut out an 11″ piece of muslin and start pulling strings from a bag.  We sat her down at her machine and pulled one black string and then whatever else came from the bag.  We had her stitch them to the muslin.  That wasn’t so bad, since black goes with everything.

We each pulled from the bag and had her sew string by string to the growing scrappy block.  Oh the faces she made since nothing seemed to match in her mind.  It was hilarious to