Rounding out my week...

 by making round wedge toppers;)

Bright yellow bee fabric and black and white polka dots and gingham make this one shine bright!

Strawberry fabric in blue, what could say summer better. 

 A pretty blue backing was the perfect fabric for the binding also. 

Did I ever show you what the back of one of these look like? This is before I applique the center circle on. 

 

The green plaid said please make something with me!

This green fabric wanted to be the backing, pretty perfect job it is doing!

A customer wanted a Halloween topper that she saw in my Etsy shop that had alreaady sold, lucky for her I had more of the same fabric. 

See ya a round!

Linking with TGIFF, Finished or Not Friday, Off The Wall

Repeats

 The past few days had me remaking the same designs, sometimes with different fabrics.  Another cupcake runner in patriotic used a different backing fabric. It wasn't wide enough so I added another star piece to the middle. 

Another of my original stars and stripes runner. This was one that was pieced last summer and leftover. I like finding leftovers from last year because it is a quick finish!

And it's backing

I had the fabrics picked for this one last year and didn't get around to cutting it out. That also speeds up the process when I don't have to hunt for all the fabrics!

I pieced the backing to use up some fat quarters.

And this one is giving me fits-I can't for the life of me get the colors to photograph right. The dark greens are supposed to be a dark sage color and everything I have tried just gives me a dark forest green. If anyone has any suggestions please tell me! I want to get it listed in my shop and without the right colors I can't!

I intended to write this post last night and time got away from me. I did start something new yesterday and hope to have it finished over the weekend, we'll see. 

Hope you all have a good and safe weekend.

Linking with Friday parties- Finished or Not, TGIFF, Off The Wall

Finishing patriotic topper

 Yes I am back to my regular sewing/quilting room and it's now time to kick it in gear and finish things. It's getting to be Patriotic season so I need to add items to the shop. First up is a round wedge topper which I pieced on Friday and quilted and bound it Saturday.

I thought maybe you would like to see it on the longarm with the quilting progress. I pin the backing fabric onto the longarm leaders and lay batting and the topper on that. Basting around the edges of the first half of the topper holds it in place.  Do you see the large bar type magnets on the right side of the photo, they hold the unbasted top in place while I quilt the top half of it. 

I bought a bolt of red/white print fabric from Marshall Dry Goods. I love this for backings for my red table runners.  Buying a bolt from them is very inexpensive, but you do have to pay postage but it is still a very good price.

Sara inspired me with all the cleaning/sorting she has been doing so I cleaned up a little area that had leftover bindings scattered about. They are now all corralled up into one container. Just perhaps I will use some of them up.  While in the process of that I uncovered some patriotic UFO runners.  Putting borders on these didn't take long and they are now on the longarm getting their quilting treatment.

Linking on Monday to Melva Loves Scraps, Small quilts and doll quilts, and Songbird Designs

Green for St. Patty's Day

It was a green day in my sewing room lately.  I believe it is not to early to think ahead to coming seasons or holidays. Plus it is always fun to pull out fabrics I haven't worked with for quite a while. Here is what I whipped up...

You all know how much I love working with the 10 degree wedge ruler and you most likely have seen both of these styles I have made before. They are just to fun not to make!!

And just to be a bit different I started with some spring like colors for a donation quilt. You will have to come back to see how it comes out;)

We frequently get deer coming through our yard, these two guys were attacking my pumpkin...

and then they started attacking each other and after several minutes of that this one lost one of his antlers!

Okay back to quilting and off to get more inspiration at these linky parties

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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.

Weekend finishes

Two finishes over the weekend. I pieced this one at retreat and quilted it this weekend. It measures approximately 16.5"x45" and it sold already so I will put another one on my to do list! I have parts leftover from previous ones so it won't take to long.

Sometimes I take the time to do a cute pieced back! 

I pieced this one on Friday and quilted and bound it on Saturday.

If you have followed me for a while you know I seem to make lots of these round wedge toppers. It's fun to dig in the holiday fabric and see what combo's I can come up with. 

I enjoyed making it so much I cut out a couple more on Sunday afternoon. They are pretty quick so I should have them done in a couple days, I don't have anything on my calendar this week so it will be pedal to the metal!

I hope you all had a great weekend whether you were sewing or out and about. Tell me what you did!!

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

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Red and Black Wedge Topper

Red and black anything is just classic, this round wedge topper fits right in.  You have seen me make several of these toppers over the last few years. They are addicting. The thing to remember is to pick a fabric that will sing for the small sashing, the red in this case. After you have your focus fabric pull from that for all the rest. My focus fabric is the black with red and white flowers. 

I think the white are daisies and the red a type of poppy perhaps. The green of course is the same tone of green as the leaves.  And the black and white polka dots just top it off. 

I like my backings to have some coloring that mimics what is on the front of my topper. 

Thanks for stopping by and taking a peek at my latest finish. 

Linking with these Monday linky parties: Design Wall Monday, Monday Musings, Sew and Tell Monday

Is it Spring yet?

I am so ready for spring to get here! We were in the midst of a winter storm this week, I think we got around a foot of snow. There were others not so far from here that received a lot more. But watching the snow coming down outside for a couple days made me yearn for spring, so I made my own spring by working with summery colors complete with flowers. These sweet daisies make me smile:)

There are some little flowers on the lighter colored wedges of this one too.

What do you think of this bright one. Think of how many occasions you could use this. It would be great as an Easter table topper, or how about all spring long or use it for a birthday party. 

                                  

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And DrEAMI because I am dreaming of spring and that makes this a DrEAMI!

Another week rolls on by

 There has been a lot of Tuesday posts this year and lots of goals set and most met, I'd say that is a success;)  This week I had three goals and I accomplished them all.

1. Finish 2 round wedge toppers✅ ✅ First I had fun with some Valentine fabric. 

And then I bounced back to a Christmas one.

2. I am in the process of setting up to be an Affiliate for Accuquilt so I hope to have that done in the next couple days. ✅  Yes it was approved and I got the link set up on the top of my left side bar. Being an affiliate means if someone clicks the link and makes a purchase I get a small commission. 

3. I have no idea what is next, LOL✅ ✅✅Oh this was left wide open for whatever I needed/wanted. I did finish up 2 snowman table runners for the shop. These were cut and stenciled and so it was a pretty quick process to finish them up. 

And then I found this guy lurking in the closet so I figured I could quickly quilt and bind him. 

And that was the work week. On the weekend I played with the crossed canoe blocks that I posted about yesterday.  

This week is all about enjoying whatever I want to do. And on the weekend enjoying time with our two kids, their spouses and our three grandkids so let's hope the weather holds up for our son and DIL to get here.  Our daughter asked if she minded if her and her hubby hosted our little Christmas family gathering on Saturday...works for me!!!!  They are doing prime rib and potatoes, we'll bring ham, homemade buns and maybe a sweet treat. 

Linking up with To Do Tuesday, Monday Musings, Wednesday Wait Loss, Midweek Makers

 It will be fun to see what everyone is finishing up since it is getting close to the end of the year. 

Mixed Holiday Table Runners

 This post covers three holidays, Christmas, St. Patrick's Day and Fourth of July.  Two round wedge toppers in Christmas fabrics were finished. 

I have so much fun picking 5 fabrics that coordinate for these round wedge toppers.  And they are pretty quick to whip up once that is done.  I am just lucky to have a large fabric stash that works well together.

Onto the next holiday...Fourth of July.  I let my Accuquilt dies do some of the work for me. Using dies  # 4 and 5 from the 8 inch cube speeds up and adds the accuracy I want for making the flying geese units for the star.  Easy peasy and accurate!

And the third holiday in this post is St. Patrick's Day shamrock table runner.  Look at all the green scraps I used in the shamrocks. These two are for a local gal that ordered them a while back and was in no hurry.  But I needed to get them off my plate when I had the chance.  I was able to use the 3" strip die from Accuquilt for the outer borders on this one too. And of course the 2.25" strip die for the bindings!  See how I like to speed up things:)

And speaking of Accuquilt did you know they have several live Facebook videos each week.  If you sign up you have a chance to win dies from them.  Sometimes they even give away a cutter or fabric too.  On Tuesday October 5th they will be introducing a new die for a big upcoming holiday!  You can register HERE.

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