Three finishes

 Last week was a busy one. In addition to meeting several of my goals I finished three more table runners.

These are such fun ones to make, it's hard to stop!  Which ones you ask...gingham table runners of course!  These are made using my Accuquilt 3" strip cutter, I have a tutorial for them on the Accuquilt blog. 

They really are super fast to make, sew strips, cross cut, sew into rows. It takes me about an hour to sew one. 

It's really fun to pick three fabrics that coordinate. 

I have used the orange and yellow fabrics for one last year, but this one has a different white background fabric.  You can even use a fat quarter for the light fabric.  These two are now listed in my Etsy shop.

I had a little extra time one day and looked around my sewing room to see what I could work on. I always have lots of projects in the works.  This snowman runner was the closest to the finish line with only needing binding. The pattern for this runner is called Tilting Trees and can be found in my Etsy pattern shop.  I used my Accuquilt 2.25" strip cutter to cut bias binding quickly. They have a good tutorial on how to do this.  

Linking up with Wednesday Wait Loss, Midweek Makers.

Gingham Tree Topper

You might have seen one of these on my blog before.  This is the second one, the first one can be seen HERE.  This time I decided to cut the strips for the gingham smaller and finish out the gingham square with the darker pieces all around the outside.  The rest is the same.  

The original pattern is from Primrose Cottages on Etsy.  I changed it up by making my flying geese into trees and no stars in the corners. 

Next up was another of my Welcome Frosty wall hanging. If you are interested you can find the pattern in my Etsy pattern shop.

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving day!  I am so thankful for all of you that read my blog! And now are you Black Friday or Cyber Monday shopping?  If I do anything it will be going to Jo Anns on Sunday;)

Linking with Off The Wall Friday and Table Scraps

Too Inspired to be Tired

It's been a productive five days!  Sometimes all of you seem to think I am the energizer bunny with all the table runners I produce. So when I was at the dollar store I saw this small notebook and had to giggle a little.  It's so true, so I had to get it! 

Here is what I have accomplished... My Etsy customers have been favoriting fall and winter already with a couple purchases of them also.  So I better up my game and get busy making a few!  I cut for several of these runners but only sewed up one for a quick finish.  The pattern I used is in a Calico Printworks book printed several years ago.  The pattern is called Cornerstones. 

From there, well I couldn't help myself😆 I had been thinking of a gray gingham runner so much that I just had to make it!

Looking back at older photos to get quilting ideas never hurts as I had forgotten about this all over freehand lettuce leaf feather design. So fun to do.  For the most part I quilted three lettuce leaf feathers with one central point and then echoed them to get where I wanted to start the next set.  However, sometimes you have to do one or two of them instead of three to make them fit in.  And that's okay!!  I used a light gray Glide thread for the quilting.  I did this quilting on the fall table runner above too.

I know you have seen ones like this one below a lot, so I'll show you more of the back instead of the front again.  I had to replenish it in the shop. This one uses the same fabric as the previous one but with a different backing.  This runner has been really popular this year. 

And a strawberry runner, you have seen these before also, but this was a replenish in the shop too. 

Now I am working on some snowman table runners, seems weird as it's one of the hottest days so far at 90 degrees. But it feels good to stay inside and quilt with my AC on!  But yesterday afternoon we were invited to a friends house, they just moved into this ginormous house so they wanted to give us a tour.  Holy cow, it's HUGE, 6 bedrooms, 6 baths, so gorgeous!  It was fun just sitting around talking for the afternoon, kinda felt like I was playing hookie 😄

Maybe I'll be back later in the week with a few more finishes, hope to see you then!  My wish for you is to have a wonderful week of sewing.

Linking with:

Wednesday Wait Loss

Midweek Makers

NTT

Put Your Foot Down

And she went down the rabbit hole!

 Nancy warned me that gingham would pull me down the rabbit hole. I think she is right!  Okay so this is only the second one, but I know there are at least two or three more I would like to make.  Remember the green one I showed you last week, it sold so I had to make another ya know!!

There were flowers in the yellow print so I took that as a sign to quilt a flowery design on it.  

And look what I found in my stash for the binding, a fun plaid!  It just makes me happy when I can shop my stash and have it right at my finger tips instantly.  Well almost instantly, it takes a while to find it sometimes!! 

But wait there's more!  Just a little teaser, I'll show it better when I am totally done.  Last Friday I decided I should start making a crib size to have on hand, or just because I could!  I might be stuck on orange for the moment:)  I finished it on Saturday when I joined in the Saturday Sew In on Jennifer's facebook group. These are Island Batik fabrics leftover from when I was an Ambassador for them.  I haven't decided how to quilt this one yet so I will wait patiently until I decide.  In the meantime I will go back to making more table runners.  

Linking with:

Wednesday Wait Loss

Midweek Makers

NTT

Put Your Foot Down

Gingham Goodness

Have you noticed how gingham is all over the place these days?  I love it!  And then Nancy from Grace and Peace Quilting kept showing the gingham quilts she has been quilting, ooh la la, I fell in love with it even more.  So I had to try making it into a table runner. I cut my strips at 3" x WOF and made strip sets and then cut those in 3" increments. After quilting my table runner is 42" x 12 1/2".  

I love that I even had a green cup for staging! Actually I drink coffee from that cup almost everyday.   I had been thinking I was going to applique some flowers onto this finished runner. But now that it is done I decided to just leave it as is. It's fun to just drop everything and try something new!

Linking with Wednesday Wait Loss, and Midweek Makers

I guess you could say this was a DrEAMi moment so I'll link up with Sandra too.