Valentine's Table Runner

My daughter has decided she would like a table runner for her coffee table for all the holidays and since Valentine's Day is coming up I made a Valentine table runner. Especially since my daughter is my Valentine - having been born 41 years ago on Valentine's Day - this table runner was a must!

 

 

And here is the WIP that I had to take a break from in order to make the table runner. Hopefully, I can get this put together before I start on the Easter table runner.

There wasn't room on my design wall so I moved to the dining room table but really there isn't room there either. Think I will start sewing together the rows that are finished. I'm thinking of sewing them together in four patches and then sew the four patches together to make 2 rows at a time.

 

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Quilt # 97

When I saw the idea of a temperature quilt on line a couple of years ago, I knew that I had to make one in honor of my late husband. It is his quilt. He was much more interested in rainfall than temperature, so I had to include rainfall on the quilt. This is the daily temperature and rainfall for 2013. In stead of keeping the records for the year, I just went back and looked up the temperatures for the previous year. And, since I still keep the rainfall records like my husband did for years, I had the rainfall amount sandals. I quilted it on my Sweet Sixteen and I am still having tension issues. I even picked out a bunch of it, but there is still plenty I am not happy with. Glad this quilt is for me. Hopefully, I will get better at using the Sweet Sixteen. Seems to work better quilting individual squares in stead of long stretches.

 

 

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Quilt #96

Today I put the binding on a quilt that has been dying of old age for years. I took a class called Entwined Stars quite a few years ago. After a year or so of having the blocks done I finally put it together and bought the grunge for the border. Them I picked it to be my Guinea pig on the sweet sixteen. The quilting leaves a lot to be desired but I had to start somewhere. Just very glad to have it in the finished pile!

 

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Cathedral Window Table Topper

First finish of 2016 is a cathedral window table topper - well, the "easy" method of making cathedral Windows. Easy is in quotation marks because it is not easy! Granted better than hand sewing which is the only way to make the original cathedral window blocks. But way too complicated to make anything bigger than a table topper!

This project all started when I was on a cruise with my neighbors. In Halifax we saw an original cathedral window quilt and Helen said she really liked it and I could put it on my to do list for her. I told her it was all hand sewn and was not happening in this lifetime but that I had seen that there was a machine sewn version and I would look into it.

So I started making the blocks with 2 1/2" squares and found out how much work the "easy" method was. No way it was going to be a quilt! I really love how the 20" x 20" inch table topper came out - it is beautiful! Gave it to Helen last night - she seemed to like it even though she is more of a muted color person! Oh well, can't have everything and cathedral Windows should be bright though I love how the gray made the colors stand out!

 

 

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