
String Piecing at a Quilt Retreat
Fourteen hardy quilters joined me for a retreat in Arapahoe, Nebraska last week. Ruth Haarberg and Gretchen Kubik of Wagner’s Quilts & Conversation hosted the retreat at Hunt Nebraska Lodge, and I was the guide.

Hunt Nebraska Lodge in Arapahoe, Nebraska
We explored string piecing, an improvisational technique using strips or “strings,” so named long ago to describe the narrowest of leftovers.