Happy Halloween!!

 

The extent of my Halloween decorating is this nook in our main entry way. 

And my two finished cross stitch bowl fillers!  Both are the free designs from the very generous Melisa, thank you for all the fun stitchings you shower us with!! The Hocus Pocus pillow us from Primrose Cottage Designs. If you sign up for their cross stitch newsletter you will get a free design each month. If you sign up for their quilting newsletter you will get a free quilty design each month.

Linking with Off The Wall Friday, TGIFF, Finished or Not Friday

Fabric Acquisition and Bunnies

 Remember I mentioned last Friday that I was going out of town to a fabric estate sale. Indeed I went, it was 1.5 hr drive one way. It's always bittersweet as a quilter has passed and left loads of fabric behind. Sad to think she won't be getting the projects done she had hoped.  The husband hired the Amish to display and sell it for him. The fabric was displayed nicely by color or holiday in the Amish greenhouse. I really enjoyed going through and filling my bag with goodies. The two young gals working told me they still had about 20 rubbermaid tubs to set out yet.  I hated to leave as I wanted to see what else they had!!  But my wallet said I had to go. After I got home I pressed and wound each piece around my 6" ruler and made a pretty stack.  

I also found yardage of two different neutrals and that blurry spot in the back there is yardage of black. I use a lot of solid black for bindings on runners so I was ecstatic to find this. All of the fabric was $4 a yard and those were tagged. If it didn't have a tag it was $16 a pound and they were estimating 4 yards to a pound. It came out pretty equal, I measured and counted while I was winding around the ruler. All together I brought home 54 yards. I learned the lady's name was Rita, so I will send up a silent thank you to her when I use her fabric. 

Yesterday I got busy and finished up the three bunny table runners, aren't they adorable! 

Linking with Wednesday Wait Loss.

Slow Stitching

For my slow stitching Sunday I hope to start this little stitch.  Oh you say why is she starting another one, well....

because I finished stitching this one. I think it will be a little pillow like how Primrose Cottage finished theirs. This was a fun one to stitch.

Saturday I quilted, bound and appliqued this snowman runner.  If you want to see the whole one you can check out this POST of a previous one, same thing but different border fabric.

This is what my design wall looks like today. These snowman blocks have been up there for over 2 weeks. I hope to make them into a runner but haven't decided on the design yet. Thinking it would come to me as I see them there every day...hasn't worked yet!

Linking with Slow Stich Sunday , Design Wall Monday and Sew and Tell Monday.

 

All about the leaves

 The last three days have been all about maple leaves. Lots of die cutting happened. I have no idea exactly how many maple leaf runners I will get from all the cutting I did. But this is the result...

The leftovers from this year are in these zip loc bags. There will be lots of maple leaf runners made over the winter. 

And one maple leaf table runner made on Wednesday.

Today's plans are to go to a fabric estate sale out of town so no sewing will be happening.

Linking with Finished or Not , TGIFFand Off The Wall. 

Bouncing around

 I am feeling like a rubber ball bouncing around the room, LOL.  Seriously I have a lot of different projects I am working on, all in different stages and keep bouncing from one to another.  

Two of three Easter runners have been quilted. Will bind and applique after the third one gets to this stage.

Tuesday morning two of three St. Patrick's runners were quilted and bound in the afternoon. Ready for applique after I get the third one quilted and bound.

I cut both of the following St. Patty runners on Sunday and pieced them Monday. Quilted this one Tuesday morning, it's awaiting it's binding. 

Plan to quilt this round one today.

Also in the last three days I started cutting/kitting up projects to work on this winter. Several Morning Star runners were cut with the accuquilt die. A few pumpkin wall hangings are ready. I didn't cut those all out, just made sure I had the fabrics needed together. 

All WIPS(work in progress) so I will link up with Wednesday Wait Loss. 

Slow Stitching

 Not much stitching has happened yet this weekend. But during the week I did a little more stitching on this cross stitch that I started just over a week ago. 

I thought I was going to quilt a table runner yesterday but DH mentioned we should go to a rather local ATV trail as this might be the last chance to do that here as the weather is in for a cool down. The trails will be closing for the year soon too. We were enjoying the moment and I didn't snap any photos but we saw some pretty fall colors along the way. 

Linking with Slow Sunday Stitching

Christmas Cardinals

I had so much fun putting this Christmas Cardinals wall hanging together. After going through my Christmas/winter panels this is the one I chose to work on first. Isn't it pretty!

I thought I had taken an in progress shot but can't find it. But I started by auditioning several different fabrics hanging them and the panel on my little design wall. Sometimes I go through several different ones until the right combination comes forward.  In going through my panels I discovered a part of one left from a whole different line of fabric, even a different fabric company. That would be all of those little blocks in the borders. They fit in perfectly with the cardinals. I added the red and white stripe that I just picked up at Hobby Lobby last week. It gave it a little spark I thought. 

 I played with the border design a bit before this one.  Adding the red and green to make it a stripe of sorts was the perfect addition to the little blocks. I am very satisfied with how it came out.  Photos happened and it got listed yesterday. 

And one more for fun;) The finished size is 30"x50".

That's not all I got done this week... I needed another tree runner. This one has the red and white diagonal stripe where the other had a red/green stripe.

And I needed another turkey.

Well why not add in three more runners that worked their way into the queue. These are the start of Easter Bunny table runners and their backing fabric.  Next is the quilting and then the applique. I'll squeeze them in when I can.

Next in line to work on will be another maple leaf runner and a Christmas one. Whew I am tired! Hope you all have had a great productive week as well.

Linking with these Friday parties:

TGIFF

Finished or Not

FreeMotion Mavericks

Beauties Pageant

Off The Wall

 

Weekend Stitching

 Friday I quilted the two gnome runner flimsies. Saturday I did all the machine applique on them.

They are identical except for the backings I used up a few scraps for that. Joining in over at Oh Scrap!

 

Friday evening I started a new cross stitch. I will be doing this for Slow Stitching Sunday tonight also.

On Monday I will join these parties...

Sew and Tell Monday, Monday Musings and Design Wall Monday

Snowman, StarStruck and Hocus Pocus!

 I have been very busy this week. Two of these Snow Dudes have been pieced and one quilted. 

I finished up this blue Starstruck table runner.

Then onto piecing two Gnome runners and I even pieced their backings! Maybe I'll be quilting them while you are reading this;)

Hubby was gone so I had a bit of extra time last night and I finished making this stitchin' into a little pillow.  I stitched this a couple years ago as a SAL with Primrose Cottage. Between the Aida cloth and the fabric I added a colorful ribbon from my card making supply. It didn't want to stitch right so I glued it on. 

Just the right addition to my little Halloween display. 

Linking with TGIFF, Finished or Not Friday, Off The Wall, Beauties Pageant

Vacy fun and more table runners

Let's begin with our little vacay over the weekend. The hubby and I decided on a whim to get away for the weekend and go into Wisconsin and do some ATV trail riding. The weather was perfect for it. We did two trails, one on Saturday and one on Sunday. In a previous year we did part of them. We got to see some leaves showing their beautiful fall colors. Definitely not at their peak yet. 

We were having a great time out on the trail, until we came upon a head on collision of two side by side ATVs. We didn't stick around as there were lots of people in those groups. They were waiting for the ambulance, EMTs, cops, and DNR. Yes there were injuries. I saw one of them holding a towel to their head. Not sure how many people were involved but more than two for sure. It happened on a blind curve but for sure one of them was on the wrong side of the trail.  We continued on our way a little more cautious as there were so many ATVs out there and too many going to fast.  Eventually we came to the end of the trail and turned around to go back to the hotel, The accident scene hadn't been cleared and the injured were still there. Two helicopters were sitting on the highway, they couldn't get close to the scene as it was at least a half mile in on the trail so that an ambulance couldn't get in there either. Two people were air lifted for sure, don't know about the others but it sure was a commotion of professionals doing their jobs. They were not letting any ATV's go through that part of the trail and after a bunch of us were waiting for 30 minutes or so they told us another route we could use to get to where we needed.  I just hope that those people are going to be okay. 

We stopped for lunch at one of the pull outs and as we were eating I looked up and saw Smoky the Bear, LOL.  🠟

I have the Etsy App on my phone so it cha-chings when I have a sale. My phone was pretty busy all weekend! So when we got home Monday I got busy and shipped out several runners. And overnight I had two more to ship!  So you know what I will be doing this week!!  But first here are a couple items I finished before we left town. This Halloween swirl runner was for an order, she had seen the round one in these fabrics and asked if I could make a swirl one in those. 

Another gal might be interested in this snowman wall hanging as she bought two other of my fall ones and said how much she liked this size. I whipped up two identical ones, just in case;) This is one of my patterns which can be found HERE.

And since snowmen and snowflakes go together so well I whipped up this blue delectable mountains with blue and silver snowflake fabric. The white background fabric has sparkles in it making it so elegant. 

I guess I was still in the snowflake mood so I used red with silver snowflakes for the background of this runner from my starburst tutorial. This is one that sold over the weekend. Okay I'll be working away while you are reading this as I have several things that need quilting.

Linking with Wednesday Wait Loss, NTT and Put Your Foot Down