Swirling Stars

 Two swirling stars were pieced, quilted and bound over the weekend.

This is a free pattern from Krista Moser using the 60 degree Diamond ruler from Creative Grids. You strip piece and then cut and sew back together. It might look a bit complicated but it is not!

And before long you have two halves ready to be assembled into a finished topper.

I used some squares that were given to me plus some I had precut myself for the backing.

Both table runners were quilted with the hook swirl that looks good on everything!

I had the perfect blue backing fabric to match the shade of blue in the star.  I better get cracking on sewing/quilting the next runner.  Hope to see you at these linky parties...Monday Musings, Sew and Tell Monday. Design Wall Monday

Patriotic Parade #2

Happy 4th of July to all my U.S. followers!

 Let the second Patriotic Parade begin.  Another favorite design to piece is my reversed S swirl runner. Fun and easy to make using a 10 degree wedge.

This is a pattern from GE Designs in one of her books.

A ten degree round wedge in red, white and blues.

Using a 60 degree diamond ruler and a pattern by Krista Moser I created this topper easily.

And one last one.

Let's go see some more inspiration at these Linky Parties:

Finished or Not Friday, Free Motion Mavericks, TGIFF, and Off The Wall

Chipping away at the quilting pile

 The 'to be quilted' pile has grown as I sneak in a little piecing here and there this past month. So it was time to reduce that pile by getting these three quilted and bound in between working on the donation quilts. 

The pattern I used to make these is a free one from Krista Moser using the 60 degree diamond ruler.  I did do mine a tad different as I used three 2.5" strips instead of  six 1.5" strips for the star. 

I had so much fun picking the fabrics that I made three of these, all Christmas ones.

The last one is all about those snowflakes.

Stay tuned for more finishes this week, I have a plan!!

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

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Triple Patriotic toppers

I'm thinking ahead to another season, a patriotic season which extends from Memorial Day thru Labor Day. If you are one of my followers you have seen the first two styles many times in different fabrics. If you happen to be here for the first time, I love making these styles for my Etsy shop.  These were made this past week. First up my stars and stripes table runner.

 

Of course I had to whip up one of my wedge round toppers too. I had the hardest time photographing this one, the blues just didn't want to come out right. But this morning I used my phone and it worked much better.

And now for the last one, it's a new design for me!!  OMG it was so fun to try out a new ruler and pattern!  The design is a free one from Krista Moser called Swirling star. It comes together quickly with strip piecing and the Creative Grids 60 degree diamond ruler. 

The quilting on this one took a bit of time but I love how it came out. Ruler work, U turns and a little stippling set this one off nicely I think. 

All three of the runners I have shown in this post have the same backing fabric. I bought a bolt of it from Marshall Dry Goods, very happy with it.  Soon I will have to piece more backings to use up some other leftovers though. Plus pieced backings always make a fun unique look.

On this Wednesday I will link up with Midweek Makers, and Wednesday Wait Loss. Thursday linking with Put Your Foot Down and NTT  

I hope you all are having a fun week whether you are quilting, on a road trip or doing something else. Here is something else fun happening in our yard... wild turkeys have been traversing between us and a few neighbors each day. They are trying to find some food that fell from our deer feeder. Each night we have been watching them fly up to the tree tops to roost for the night. They take a small running step and up the go, for such big birds they do pretty well. We counted up to 14 one night.  This was taken a couple weeks ago, since then a bit of this snow has melted.

And of course the deer are still almost a daily occurrence. There is at least six in this photo, you have to look out into the tree line to see three of them.  We enjoy watching the wildlife:)