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

 

Hippity Hop

In Friday's post I asked if you could guess what I was working on, two of you got it right! 

It's an Easter table runner.

Well actually two of them. 

I used the same backing for them so they were on the longarm at the same time. Isn't that backing just the cutest with these bunnies.  I did not purchase them to go together nor at the same time.

Saturday was my local longarm meeting, after I got home from that we processed some berries that we had frozen from a while back. We have berry jam, sooooo good!!  The berries included mostly raspberries, others were strawberries, juneberries and a few blueberries. The jam flavor came out as mostly raspberries.

I forgot to show you the apple butter we made a few weeks ago using apples from our tree.

Hope you all had a great weekend.  Will I see you over at these linky parties?

Sew and Tell Monday, Monday Musings and Design Wall Monday.

What am I working on...

Can you guess what I am making?  I should have it done for a Monday post:)

These are finishes from this past week...

This round one with blue snowman and snowflakes was a request from a customer so she could put it out after Christmas for the winter. 

Hope to see you Monday!

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