Often when I make something with a seasonal fabric, I might as well pick the next season and make one for that also while the pattern is fresh in my mind. First up is a pretty sunflower fabric with a coordinating gold and green.
The quilting on the star portion of this table topper was all ruler work with one start and one stop on my longarm. Next came the smallish stipple in the neutral background and straight lines in the outer border.
And the backing.
Picking out the Christmas fabrics was easy, I started with the holly fabric and added a green and red. This was the first time to use the white with green, red and silver polka dot fabric. I think it came out great.
The quilting is the same as the sunflower one. This is a pattern by Anka's Treasure called Rising Star, in her Angles with Ease book.
Found a piece just large enough in the stash for the backing.
The cross stitch project has moved along also.
Our wild blackberry season has come to the end, but I sure loved being able to fill 7 sandwich size zip baggies and put in the freezer. But first I made a batch of 24 muffins, yummy!
This year I decided to try planting cucumber seeds in a flower pot of the deck. The three plants are growing really well. I took this a week ago and it has really vined out even more since. And I have several baby cuc's on it, four of them are almost 4" long! I can hardly wait to eat them:)
It's Friday so you know I'll be linking up with other creators at Off The Wall, TGIFF, Finished or Not Friday and Freemotion Mavericks.
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