Holiday Table Runner

Holiday table runners are quick easy gifts and a great way to use up scraps.  Here is a quick table runner I made and free motion quilted with my new Juki.

Table Runner

When you win all the batik squares during the Right Left Center game at the quilt guild you make a table runner.

This was another pattern I picked up at Road 2 California also by GE Designs.  This one is called Lil' Nellie.

There was a lot of flipping and matching up with this one. Not such an easy pattern to follow.

I do like how it came out and I will enjoy displaying the festive colors.

Holiday Quilts

This adorable table runner is from a patter from All People Quilt.  This site has great free patterns.  I love the quant houses and the leaning tree.  So festive and cute.

This table runner was a great chance to use up holiday scraps.  It goes together quickly as it is just strips.

Braided Runner

It has been a long winter (read no quilting was done, nada, nothing, the sewing room had cobwebs in it). Spring is upon us and I am quilting again.  This is a braided table runner made from strips.  The pattern is from the magazine "Sew it...today" (October/November 2013) issue.  I love braids. I use to braid my girlfriends hair all the time when I was growing up.  We did french braids, fish tails, and just plain braids. Alas, I have no girls hair to braid.  Just my own, and that's not the same.  So this quilt will have to do.  The directions were very easy to follow and the quilt was actually fun to make. I liked seeing the braid grow longer and longer.  It took me a long time to finish it because I got stuck on how I was going to put the backing on. I tried one long stitch down the center but the back looked all puckered.  So I took that out and then spray basted the heck out of the thing making sure it was really stuck together.  Then I pinned it for extra protection.  I finally decided to stitch in the ditch on every third row. This worked out nicely as the back was smooth and the zigzag followed the pattern.  The binding was also tricky because I couldn't decide on the right color.  Finally, this is the finished product.

Happy Quilting!

What have I been up to?

Lot's of projects have been completed lately but not a lot of blogging.  I completed a table runner with some of the leftover pieces I had from the memory quilt.  This went to the adult son of my friend.  He is getting married soon and I thought it would make a nice gift.  And I didn't want the leftover pieces to go to waste.  This way they can be appreciated and the memories remain strong.  I finished a Star Wars quilt for a young boy.  His sisters are getting the butterfly and the scrap quilt so he needed something for himself.  This was just a tie together quilt that Joann's sells.  It was easy to make but I know he will love it.  Between these projects I have been helping my twin boys finish first grade, working out like a mad women to Jillian Micheal's DVD's, driving kids to baseball and Sunday School, and watching Game of Thrones and Vampire Diaries.  And my new favorite pastime is reading the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon.  I am on book 2 of this 8 book series and I am in love with the main character Jaime.  What a heartthrob.  I have many more projects that I am working on so I hope to post more pictures soon.