Comfort quilt

I'm woefully behind in my blogging again!  But, I have been very busy sewing up a storm! This summer I worked on quilting up some tops for our comfort quilt project for our local hospital.  I belong to two small quilt groups and we make lap quilts for the chemo unit of our local hospital.  

This quilt was put together with green and pink scraps that we had in the donated stash (along with a few others from my stash to get enough for the top).  This was a fun quilt to do.  I just quilted it myself with large loops down each row. 

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quilted with large loops in each row

We had a lot of one floral fabric and used it for borders, but it needed a little more width, so it got dark grey half tumblers and also grey binding around it.

It's finished!

I finished the binding on the table runner and am very happy with how it turned out.  It's a bit of a pain to sew the binding on, but worth it. You can also trim the edges straight for a quick finish :-).

Closeup of the binding:

 Here it is on my kitchen table:

Giving 'organic quilting' a try

I put together a simple table runner with tumbler shapes awhile ago and have had it hanging on my design wall all this time because I didn't know how to quilt it.  Suddenly, I remembered seeing a blog post on organic quilting.  Fortunately, I found it back and decided to give it a try. I really love how it turned out!

Close up of the wavy line quilting

I will definitely try this again on other runners or quilts.  I am stitching the binding on and will post another photo when it's all finished.