Tablerunner update

 In June 2019, I finished this table runner. I was happy with it, but it always felt like it wasn't quite what I had in mind originally and it looked like it needed a bit more quilting.  I came across it this week and finally had a brainstorm to add some more quilting with a green thread and maybe a gold?  I added the green rows and that was exactly what I had in mind!  Finished finally!  Here are a few pictures of the added green straight quilting lines.  This really is a matchstick quilting project!!

green rows added - there are white rows of straight line quilting between each of the coloured rows

The original quilting

With the added green stitches

It looks great on my kitchen table with a bowl of fall gourds

Another long overdue project finished :-)

 I worked in a quilt shop in Hamilton for almost two years when my husband went back to University to obtain a teaching degree. One of the classes taught was a quilt as you go table topper.  Backing and batting were cut a little larger than the finished size and then a center square chosen.  Each border was added and stitched through the batting and backing forming the quilting as if it was stitched in the ditch.  I made this topper as a Christmas gift for my Mom.  After she passed away, I got it back and thought it needed a little more quilting.  I quilted a design in the center and then got sidetracked and did not get it finished.  A few years ago I did the outside border and one other border.  This year I finally finished all the borders.  It is a great memory of my Mom as well as of my time working at this quilt shop ☺.  (Click on the photo to enlarge.)

I used a stencil to draw a motif in the center block and filled it in with lines.

Straight lines in the green borders and the red border has snowflakes which are hard to see on the busy fabric

The outside border got some feathers and the white border some simple loops

 

Livingroom Furniture

This was a very fun pattern that I picked up at Smith Owen Quilt shop in Grand Rapids, MI when I went on a trip for three days to the big Quilt Show in August 2018.  The pattern is a "Get Cozy Mini" from Pen + Paper Patterns .  The shop had a little bundle of F8ths available.  I finally got a chance to make this at a virtual retreat with our small quilt guild (hosted on a face book group).  I wanted something "fun" to work on, not something I had to finish ☺.  It is approximately the same size as the popular Row by Row quilts so it will get a turn to hang on the hanger which I bought at the show as well.

 

Living room furniture

I love the funky sofa fabric and the quilt ladder

very retro pattern

Journey2Nebula

 I've been participating in a stitch along with Jaybird quilts called "Journey2Nebula".  It's supposed to be practice for doing the Nebula quilt, which I will likely not be doing as I still have too many ufo's.  But, I had a bunch of the patterns she was going to work with plus a few half started and half finished projects, so I decided to jump onboard and get a few of these projects finished.  The first one was easy as I already had the top completed ☺.  I quilted it and gifted it for someone's cottage.  I just completed the pillow with the Lucky Charm pattern today. 

Finished runner

I used the leftovers of the fabrics for the back

Quilted with simple straight lines

Lucky Charm was the the next pattern and I made this with a charm pack called Farm Fresh

I made this one into a pillow

I found this apple print in my stash which works perfectly for the back and added a covered zipper closure as per the S.O.T.A.K. website instructions.  I love the professional look it adds to my pillows ☺.

I used up all the rest of the charm squares to make this little table topper.  There was just enough apple fabric to piece for the backing.  It is quilted in diagonal lines with turquoise thread.