I'm thinking ahead to another season, a patriotic season which extends from Memorial Day thru Labor Day. If you are one of my followers you have seen the first two styles many times in different fabrics. If you happen to be here for the first time, I love making these styles for my Etsy shop. These were made this past week. First up my stars and stripes table runner.
Of course I had to whip up one of my wedge round toppers too. I had the hardest time photographing this one, the blues just didn't want to come out right. But this morning I used my phone and it worked much better.
And now for the last one, it's a new design for me!! OMG it was so fun to try out a new ruler and pattern! The design is a free one from Krista Moser called Swirling star. It comes together quickly with strip piecing and the Creative Grids 60 degree diamond ruler.
The quilting on this one took a bit of time but I love how it came out. Ruler work, U turns and a little stippling set this one off nicely I think.
All three of the runners I have shown in this post have the same backing fabric. I bought a bolt of it from Marshall Dry Goods, very happy with it. Soon I will have to piece more backings to use up some other leftovers though. Plus pieced backings always make a fun unique look.
I hope you all are having a fun week whether you are quilting, on a road trip or doing something else. Here is something else fun happening in our yard... wild turkeys have been traversing between us and a few neighbors each day. They are trying to find some food that fell from our deer feeder. Each night we have been watching them fly up to the tree tops to roost for the night. They take a small running step and up the go, for such big birds they do pretty well. We counted up to 14 one night. This was taken a couple weeks ago, since then a bit of this snow has melted.
And of course the deer are still almost a daily occurrence. There is at least six in this photo, you have to look out into the tree line to see three of them. We enjoy watching the wildlife:)