I finished a few more projects on the Journey2Nebula sew along that Jaybirds quilts was hosting online this Fall. These little projects were a lot of fun. Here is the Gazebo pattern which I did in some Christmas scraps I had in my stash. I dug out my Westalee foot and ruler to quilt some straight lines in it.
As I was sorting through my "to quilt" basket, I came across this Rock Candy topper that's been in the basket for a few years. I got it quilted as well. Another item of the UFO list ☺.
Last week I had a chance to catch up on some machine quilting and tackled three table toppers I had made for the Journey2Nebula stitch along with Jaybird quilts online. This pattern is called Rock Candy. It was fun to do some nice quilting on these with the solids I used for two of the toppers. I found a charm pack with these suede looking solids which I picked up years ago and separated them into the cool and the warm colours and got two toppers out of them.
The diamonds for the Canada themed topper were cut out years ago and never actually sewn together. The brown stonehenge worked well for the borders and black for the binding and it's done. You can't really see the quilting too much on this one with the busy and textured fabrics so I kept that one fairly simple. And when I was sorting my "to quilt" projects last week, I came across a Christmas one I had done a few years ago as well. It's all layered and ready to quilt. Why couldn't that one show up a little earlier? ☺It might not end up being quilted til next year. (Click on the photo for a larger view.)
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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.
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| Finished runner |
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| I used the leftovers of the fabrics for the back |
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| Quilted with simple straight lines |
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| Lucky Charm was the the next pattern and I made this with a charm pack called Farm Fresh |
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| I made this one into a pillow |
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| 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 ☺. |
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| 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. |
