Delectable Mountains

Three delectable mountain table runners done. You might recall me piecing them last winter.

The mountains are batiks in all three runners while the neutral backgrounds are quilting cotton. 

The first one has a teal coloring, the second a green/gold coloring. And this last one is gold/orange.

The past several days was all about finishing up WIPs and UFOs. Another finish included two of my turkey table runners. They are identical so only showing one of them. 

My Calla lilies are opening.

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EAA

This was my view last week. 

We spent a week in Oshkosh, WI to attend EAA(Experimental Aircraft Association) air show.  Oh my what an event, the amount of people, aircraft, campers, bikes, golf carts and ATV's was absolutely amazing. A full week of events from seminars to watching aircraft flying around and of course afternoon and evening airshows.  The hubby likes to attend the events and I liked staying in the camper happily sewing away! I did go up to see exhibits a couple of mornings with him and the evening air shows. But for the most part I could see lots of aircraft flying as they flew out past us campers. 

This is just a very, very small portion of campers there for the show. We camped in the section where we could use generators so that we could use the air conditioner if needed, it was needed a couple times. Usually I just had the fan on but that also needed electricity from the generator as well as my sewing machine and iron!  Campers were close together with no real designated spot, once you checked in at the gate you drove around to find a spot you wanted to park. We met a very nice couple from Iowa that were parked just across from us. We spent a late afternoon chatting with them, some might call that happy hour;)  She had done some quilting in the past so we chatted about that, she was a bit envious of me sewing in the camper each day. I usually had the big gate of the camper down and as people went buy they would see me sewing away! A couple of them had to ask what I was making. 

These guys flew many, many times and boy do they get loud, but also very graceful looking at times.  It's very hard to get a good pic of them as they speed by, hubby pulled this from a video he took.

Here is a short video of one aircraft for you. 

During my sewing time there I worked on my Gobble it Up table runners. 

Many wedges sewn across the short ends...

turned into 200 turkey feathers...

Which turned into 10 Gobble it Up table runners. These are from my pattern which is in my Etsy pattern shop HERE.  

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Twelve pieced Gobble It Up table runners

 I like to work ahead on projects I need done for my Etsy shop.  Sometimes that means working ahead a few months, sometimes that means a LOT of months!  One would think I would be tired of making my turkey table runners, but I am not:)  I guess this photo proves that, haha.  Twelve runners all pieced.  They are identical except for the fact six have one neutral back ground and six have another. 

I just didn't want you to think I was just lazing around doing nothing!!  There might have been a few fun days thrown in here and there, but I am still sewing away.  

If you would like to make your own turkey table runner, I have the Gobble It Up! pattern in my Etsy pattern shop. 

I hope all is well in your corner in the world and have found some sewing therapy also. 

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Time flys!

 It didn't seem like 20 days ago since my last post but that is what it says!  Time is flying by like crazy isn't it?  

I really haven't done a whole lot of sewing during that time either. But here is what I did get done.  I pieced five of my Gobble it Up!  table runners.  I like knowing that I have a stash of them in my closet ready to be quilted when the busy season starts. That way I only have to quilt them up and get them listed in my Etsy shop when it gets closer to fall. 

One day I visited a local quilt shop, you know looking for a few new pieces of fabrics to inspire me.  They were having customer appreciation days with door prizes. I didn't even know what the prizes were, but I signed up, it doesn't hurt to do that;)  And at the end of the day they called to say I was one of four grand prize winners!!!  OMG here is what I won.  A CutterPillar light box!  This is going to be really nice to use for both applique and for my card making.  It is thin and pretty light weight and that it is a pretty green doesn't hurt either! The neat thing is that it has a cutting mat with gridlines that you lay over it and you can cut right there. I'll be anxious to try it out. 

Even though I didn't get a lot of sewing done I still had a good week. I hope you all did too.  Hopefully I will have more quilting time and energy this week!  

To Do Tuesday #8

Hello my quilting buddies.  How are we all doing this week? Were you productive and get lots done?
I think I amazed myself with how much I really accomplished this week. It was more than I listed to do this week.

Here is what I set forth as my week's goal:

1. Finish the last border for the leaf table runners. DONE  I am happy to report that the strips were pieced, cut and sewn onto the 5 leaf table runners.

2. Start sewing the wedges for my Gobble It Up turkey table runners. DONE  Actually the wedges are sewn, turned, pressed and then turned into the turkey feathers.  Not only was that done, but they are also placed onto the background fabric and the borders all sew on six of these table runners!!  I was on a roll this week.

At the same time my Sister-in-law wanted to make one so we had a sewing day, here she is pinning her runner flimsy to the batting and backing.  We had a great time visiting and sewing.  You have to understand she isn't a quilter, but she does a lot of sewing of useful things like bags for their lawn chairs to carry on their ATV, and she makes all kinds of pouches and other accessories for their ATV.  She has sewn wedding dresses and bridesmaid dresses. So I was able to teach her a few quilting tricks along the way, I think she is doing a fabulous job on her Turkey table runner.

3. My third goal was to get a tutorial written for the Accuquilt blog, DONE.  But I can't show you it just yet.  So happy to have this done and submitted. I am not sure when they are going to post it, but think within the next 2-3 weeks.  I'll let you know here on my blog when it is available.  It will be using one of the newer dies called Morning Star.

For this week I want to work on:

1.  Snowmen table runners.

2.  The red/gray string blocks.

3.  If time allows start sewing the red wedges for poinsettia table runners.

If you would like to see what others are working on hop over to To-Do Tuesday at HomeSewnByUs.

June OMG met

I am so happy to report I met my June goal for One Monthly Goal.  The goal I set for myself was to work hard on 10 turkey table runners.  I planned to make 200 feathers for the turkeys and get them set onto at least 5 of the background fabrics.  I achieved that and more!!  You can see HERE what I had to work with at the beginning of June.

After putting together the 200 feathers into 20 groups of 10, I glued them to the 10 table runner background fabrics.  I was still in the mood to work on them so I cut and sewed the borders onto 5 of the runners.  Next I felt like quilting, I managed to quilt up 3 of them before I decided I had spent enough time for now on these.  I am so happy that I achieved my goal and went beyond what I set out to do.  

If you are asking what OMG is check out this link to Elm Street Quilts for all the info.  I'll be linking up for the end of the month  OMG celebration party.  I hope to see many of you there:)

I do have a pattern for the turkey table runner called Gobble it Up,  if you are interested you can email me, link on my About page.  At some point I am hoping to get it listed in my Etsy shop.  If you are interested in a finished Gobble it Up table runner, I have it available in my Etsy shop.

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Gobble it Up 2

I am late in getting my Island Batik October Ambassador project done.  The challenge was to showcase borders and bindings.  For some reason I just kept dragging my feet on this one, not sure why.  But, I just could not settle on what I wanted to make, ideas kept popping in and nothing felt right.

And then this past weekend, I was putting away Halloween decorations and getting out Thanksgiving stuff.  What, I don't have a real Thanksgiving wall hanging for my seasonal corner in the foyer? I used to have one but it was old, and before my longarming days, and I didn't really like it so I got rid of it a few years ago.  Since then I have just used a fall leaf one.  But I needed a real Thanksgiving one.  So, I figured I should combine my need with the need to get the Island Batik project done.  Hmmm, put my thinking cap on and in the meantime I had upgraded to EQ8 and was poking around in there when I saw this cute flying geese border.  Aaaaha! I know what I need to do!!!!!!

Now that is a lot of flying geese and these are tiny-they finish at 1"x2".  Yes you might be thinking I am a little crazy to make that tiny of geese.  But seriously using Island Batik's(which they gave me to use) made this job so easy and accurate  And using my Fons and Porter flying geese ruler made it pretty quick. 

 Aren't these fabrics just perfect for the gobbler?  He is the one from my Gobble It Up pattern on Craftsy.

 Three little prairie points with buttons sewn on to hold them in place add a bit more charm to it.

A little perspective with the dime by the tiny flying geese.  And see how tiny I quilted in there!!

Couldn't resist an outdoor shot with the leaves!

 It finished at 31"x26", a great size for my wall and wooden quilt holder.

Happy November ya all!!!

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Another crazy week

Sewing like a maniac again this week.  I was desperate to whip up more table runners so I could deliver to the show that opened today.  Somehow I pulled a rabbit out of a hat, or maybe I should say 15 rabbits!  Yes indeed, I managed to deliver to them this morning, 15 runners.  This was done in the last 2 weeks, now some were started before that but needed finishing. I worked my fingers to the bone and I was sick with a nasty cold this week, but I kept plugging away. 

 All of these, except my Gobble It Up runners, were started and in the cabinet waiting to be quilted.  You can find my pattern for the turkey runners in my Craftsy shop.

 It never felt so good to have so many just waiting to be finished up!

But then I had to make more snowmen ones because I had only delivered 3 to them earlier.  So I whipped up a pair of my 3 Snow Dudes from scratch.  This is one of my patterns in my Craftsy shop(link on the right side bar).

And a few more of these new little guys.  I found some red and white stripe that I thought I would try instead of making the checkerboard-it sold while I was still at the craft show this morning!

Then I came home and crashed and basically did nothing for the rest of the day!!  Tomorrow I will be back at it, prepping for the 4th and final show in 4 weeks.  The time sure does fly:)

Now you know why I have been so quiet the last few weeks.

Linking to Sarah, Myra and Amanda.

Knitting projects

As I was doing inventory for my second craft show of the season, I realized I haven't shown you some of my machine knit fleece sweaters this year. I knit the sleeves and bands on my knitting machine and then sew them into the fleece bodies on the sewing machine.  These are all machine washable and dryable and oh so warm for our Minnesota winters.












Last week I started making the machine knit dishcloths for the third show of the season. I now have 80 made as of last night.













In case some of you don't know what a knitting machine looks like here is one of mine.













Among all the machine knitting, I decided I wanted to start hand knitting a pair of socks. Yes I still can hand knit, but why when I have a machine that can produce it way more faster?  Well I just wanted a project to work on in the evenings while watching TV.  And because Ramona drove me to do it with all her pretty socks she has posted!!!  It's all your fault Ramona--thank you so very much!  It was kinda scary for me as I kept thinking what if I don't make the right size the first time-it takes a whole lot of time to hand knit.  I got the ribbing cast on and did several rows and thought wow that looks too big for me. I emailed Ramona(thanks for all your help) to see what size foot and sock she makes. I ripped mine out and went down 2 sizes and it is PERFECT. I just love how the sock fits!!!  But for the record it took me a month to get one done-I am slow and only pick it up for a few rows each night.  The pattern is Echo Beach Sock a free Ravelry download. Now to find time to get the next one started.

And to keep things quilty, since that is what my blog is normally about, I made another Gobble it up runner. I sold the first 2 right away!

If you are interested I have the pattern for sale in my Craftsy Shop or click on the Craftsy link on the top right side bar.







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Gobble It Up pattern is ready

Gobble It Up! turkey table runner pattern is now availabe in my Craftsy store. Your Thanksgiving table will look so festive with the addition of this cute runner!  This is for the 17" x 42" table runner only, it does not include the pumpkin.

 I used batiks, but you certainly don't have to. In fact, I really need to make another with regular quilting cottons.

 
This is a quick easy pattern to whip up. There are 8 pages of instructions which include pictures of the steps.

This is the Island Batik one I did a couple weeks ago. They are just so fun to make and quilt!

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