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

Cornerstones

 Another cornerstone runner made it's way to the finish line. 

I have been using a lot of fall colored strips from this little bin. Soon I will have to cut a few more to get lots of different prints.

My hubby made me some square clappers, they work great to use on these square centers for these runners. 

Another pieced backing to make this long enough for this runner.

Linking with Monday Musings, and Sew and Tell Monday

Christmas Trees

This is a new project, never before made until the past few days! 

Five Christmas tree blocks made using two dies from the 8" cube from Accuquilt. This makes flying geese so easy!  I added a polka dot sashing to the sides of the tree before surrounding the block with red, green, white stripe.  The outside border consists of holly and chickadees, because chickadees sit in trees.

The backing needed just a bit more than the 44" WOF so I added a green polka dot strip in the middle of it. 

 Linking with Design Wall Monday, Monday Musings, Patchwork and Quilts, Sew and Tell Monday

Processing scraps

 I have kept a bin loaded with all the fabrics I used for my maple leaf runners. There was parts, strips and chunks in there, some leftover from when I did paper pieced leaf blocks. It was getting to be so messy, so Saturday afternoon I did something about that. I processed a lot of scraps into 2.5" squares. 

If it was a WOF x 2.5" strip I didn't cut it up, that way I can make strip sets and then cut. My bin looks much neater now! Squares are in one bag and leaf parts in another bag. The strips and sashings are in one pile. There are a few chunks I didn't process yet, I'll do that as needed. 

Then I got to making the borders for these two runners that I pieced on Friday. All ready for quilting soon as I am out of these. I love using up some scraps in the process!

Linking with Oh Scrap! 

Fall is still in full swing

 I was debating whether to post or not because these are more remakes so you've seen me make these pattern before. But the backings are different on these, LOL. 

Here is the one I made before, see it has a different backing :)

This is also another remake. The previous one is HERE. If you look closely you will see the fabrics are  placed differently as I don't try to replicate the exact placement each time. I just grab each piece, cut and sew each one without looking at a pic of the previous runner. Another will get made this week too.

I mostly show the repeats for my own purpose but also to let you know I am still quilting otherwise I wouldn't have a lot to post about right now. 

I want to thank all of you that left me condolences on my friends passing, I appreciate your kind words.

Linking on Wednesday Wait Loss

Holiday quilting

 It's been a productive week, lots of quilting happened. From the start to the end, picking fabric to binding each one.  And all from the stash. First up a 10 degree round wedge topper for the holidays. I picked the focus fabric, the holly one first and then picked the coordinating and background fabric. I have a tutorial for this topper on my tutorial page if you are interested.

Definitely time to finish some snowmen for the shop. This is my Snow Dudes pattern. I pieced two of these and only quilted the one for now. 

Buffalo Plaid has been a favorite in the past and I hope they continue to be. Two of these pieced and only one quilted for now. I have two other table runners and a wall hanging I am working on too. 

I received some sad news yesterday, my Wisconsin quilting friend of 20 years passed away recently. We connected online over our knitting machines and then learned we were both quilters. I have been to her house several times while we attended the Wisconsin quilt show and always looked forward to when we could get together. The last two years she invited me to a quilt retreat that she attended with friends from her area. I am already missing her as we texted often sharing our ideas and accomplishments of our quilting projects. I knew something was going on with her health this summer, but wasn't expecting the end to come so soon. My heart goes out to her family. RIP Sandi B. 

Linking with Free Motion Maverick's, Beauties Pageant, Finished or Not Friday, TGIFF