Meandering into a good place

Inspired by online free motion tutorials, I tried some simple squiggles

and more complicated meandering.

To say it nicely: I suck at meandering.

Not one to throw fabric away, I cut an eight inch square from the meandering fiasco

and covered it with strips from the scrap bin

cut a piece of old towel to size

and quilted the whole thing onto a dark backing

and then bound it with leftover binding.

Now instead of ugly meandering

I have another potholder for my kitchen.

Here's another layout of the string star.

The strings are 3/4 inch wide finished, and the blocks finish at 5 inches.