Weekly Goals

 A day late for To Do Tuesday, but better late than never right!  I'll get right to it today.

The goals for the week were:

1. Working on binding three identical 24" toppers ✅ Binding done and also the applique of the holly, I do have to hide the threads yet. 

2. Bind 3 pumpkin runners ✅ All done and in the mail. 

3.  Anything is fair game...  First up was having Wendy come and sew with me on Monday and Tuesday. We had lots of chattering and sewing! 

That's all that was on my list but I finished up these 2 table runners this week also. 

And for a little unexpected fun a squirrel sat there begging me to make these placemats.  So I had to listen to him didn't I 😁  Once I decided on how they should look I set right to it on Saturday and by night time they were all done. 

It's been a good week.  So what's on tap this week?  

1. Turkey runner

2. Bind another Valentine runner

3. Piece 2 more of those red and white 24" toppers (I have an order of 8 total)

4. Poinsettia runner

5. Anything else I have time for.

Wishing you all a great week ahead!  Visit all the goal setters at To Do Tuesday, also linking with Wednesday Wait Loss

To Do Tuesday #24

It's been another good week, one of these times I will surprise you and get nothing done!

Here is what I committed to for the week:
I will continue to work on more table runners, I am thinking snowman and pumpkins ones. DONE✔
There might be a little more embroidery too. DONE✔
And of course I need to finish up my Sunshine blog hop project for Thursday so that is priority.  DONE✔

I stuck to my goals and first I pieced and then quilted and bound these two pumpkin table runners. This is a Bloomin Minds pattern that I added the outer border to as I like a little wider runner. These are approx. 14" wide now.  

And then I had a little squirrel enter my room and whispered in my ear that I should make this runner with a snowman instead of a pumpkin.  Well of course I listened to the squirrel;)  The snowman applique is from an older Bloomin Minds pattern.

One other squirrel that I would like to punch made me do this:(  I broke my favorite 1/4" foot for my Janome Skyline 7.  There might have been a few choice words that escaped my mouth.  After I calmed down I went off to Amazon and ordered another which should arrive on Thursday.  But don't fret I have another machine to use in the meantime.

You might have seen another project I finished already during the Sunshine Blog Hop HERE.

Then on Friday afternoon I decided to dig into a pile of cutoffs/leftovers from trimming backings.  This is two years worth of cutoffs from making tons of snowman runners. I had no idea at first how many backings I could piece together into a pretty backing with stripes for upcoming snowman runners.  I am amazed but from Friday afternoon through Saturday morning I pieced 16 of them!!!

The last finish of the week was on Sunday afternoon.  I was so anxious to get my redwork snowman all finished into a fun little wall hanging.  I love him!  This was the first time I quilted over any embroidery. Using Glide 40 wt. thread it worked fine to crosshatch right over him.  However I wouldn't mind trying the 60 wt sometime, I didn't have any white to try this time.

 Oh wait I forgot about Saturday afternoon and Monday's projects!  Oh gosh you must all think I am nuts with how much sewing I have been doing. But hey it takes my mind off things;) Piecing of these runners and stenciling the snowflakes. Okay that's it I am done!

But I want to share this pretty peach rose with you. I was able to capture it with fresh raindrops on it.

The goal of quilting and piecing more runners is on the list of things for this week too.  Maybe some more hand embroidery thrown in too.  And I'll have to figure out July's OMG project.

Linking with To Do Tuesday.

More S swirl wedge runners

Yipee, I sold my first S swirl wedge runner a week ago.  Whenever I sell something it spurs me on to making another pretty quickly.  So I grabbed more Christmas fabrics(some are the same as the first one) and got busy cutting and sewing the strip sets for two Christmas ones and a fall one. 

Before long I had them all pieced.   I could put one bigger piece of fabric on the longarm and quilt the Christmas ones at the same time.  One of these landed in my Etsy shop and the other I will have for a local craft show that is in less than a month!!  How did fall arrive so darn early-hmmm I say that every year it seems. 

Last Wednesday I took a nice three hour drive over to Wisconsin to see a friend and go to the quilt show with her.  This show is the one put on by Nancy Zieman and is called Quilt Expo.  Next year the name will change to The Great Wisconsin Quilt Show.  It is always a fun show to attend, lots of vendors and great things to see and buy!  I was pretty proud of myself for not buying tons of fabric:0.  Only 6 fat quarters, and 4 patterns plus a little wool kit came home with me.  

This is one of the new patterns I whipped up yesterday.  It is from Bloomin' Minds.  I added the long outside orange and dark borders to make this table runner a bit wider.  I hope to quilt it today.  But isn't that pumpkin darling?  She has so many adorable patterns and at a great price.  

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