Braids and Banners

I had such fun making the two teal braided table runners that I checked out other batiks that I could do in another color scheme.  From the stash came these yellow and gray batiks that worked up nicely. They did give me problems when it came to photographing them though, the grays became to blue. I tried different times of days, different lighting tricks, the close ups became the best colors.

  

Almost quilted the same as the teal ones, but I just did straight lines instead of ribbon candy in the yellow sashings.  There were a few more things accomplished this week, but I'll save those for another post.

It won't be long and people will be shopping for new fall decorations. So I used my sunflower wall hanging pattern to make this banner. You can hang it on a wall, a door or just display on a table. Lots of applique which I do after quilting the piece. It's a fun one to make. If you want to see my seasonal patterns you can find them in my Etsy pattern shop HERE.

Lastly I finally got this one listed in my quilting Etsy shop! I made it last year and never got all the photos I needed in order to list it. If you are in need of a new Halloween banner you can find it HERE. I used several Accuquilt dies to make this, pumpkins, cat, and bat. A circle for the moon and 1.5" strip cutter for the checkerboards. Again lots of applique, I have a setting on my Janome Skyline 7 to make the zigzag for the applique jut right.

It's Friday and that means lots of fun linky parties to check out. I'll be over at...

Freemotion Mavericks

Off The Wall

Finished or Not Friday

 

Leftovers

These two runners are for my Etsy customer. She saw one in my shop but wanted two of them for her end tables. So I made two new ones identical for her. She was happy with that and they are now on their way to her home. The pattern for this is called Leftovers and is from a book by Calico Printworks.

These use up a lot of scraps, but there are always more as you all know!  I just heard about a fabric estate sale 1/2 hr from me this week, should I go? Do I need more, no I do not, but it is hard to pass up a sale! I don't know the prices which I wish I did as that could be the deciding factor.

A new project was started this week...I'll tell you more about it after I get it quilted.

 

Linking with Oh Scrap! Monday Musings, Design Wall Monday and Sew and Tell Monday.

Two for Table Scraps

Every month there is a Table Scrap challenge at The Joyful Quilter blog. This month Joy announced the Theme was Umbrella and the color is yellow to coordinate with the RSC color of the month.  I made two yellow table runners this month. I'll be stretching to follow the Umbrella theme, keep reading to find out how. 

The first table runner is my Dresden plates turned sunflower. I love making these!

This second one is Morning Star using the Accuquilt Bob die for it. If you are a regular follower you saw this one recently in it's own post.

As for the umbrella theme, well we need rain for the sunflowers to grow and we might need an umbrella if we have to go outside in the rain!  And this morning it looks like we might get a little rain today throughout the weekend, therefore I might need to use an umbrella at some point, LOL.  More sewing/quilting might happen over the weekend if it does rain. What are your plans for the weekend?

Linking with:

Table Scraps Challenge

Finished or Not Friday

TGIFF

Off The Wall Friday

Patchwork and Quilts

To-Do-Many-Things-Tuesday!

 How can it possibly be Tuesday already!!  I think we all say that each week don't we?  Last Tuesday of September-that's a scary thought. It's been a very busy productive week!

The goals I set for the week were:

1. Finish a Pumpkin Harvest wall hangings 👍 I picked up this new black that sorta looks like grunge at Hobby Lobby recently.

2. Three local friends were coming over 👍👍👍 Yep it was a great afternoon!  Holy cow they bought several runners and between all three of them they ordered 8 more runners and 2 wall hangings!!  They don't need them until December so I can work them in whenever I have time between keeping up with my Etsy shop. Eight of these runners are alike-not sure I have enough red batik so I might have to go shopping:0

3. Write up at least one blog post 👍👍 I did two.  If you missed them you can see them HERE and HERE.

4.Quilt a turkey table runner  👍

5. Whatever else need doing  👍  That's an easy one to meet!  But no photo on it today, but come back on Friday and you will see my newest pattern release. Yes it is finally ready!  I will be binding it tomorrow and get photos.  I did already finish one and sold it already. I made a little modification to the one I will use for the cover photo.  

Also on the whatever list are these two Tilted Tree runners.  

And OMG I finally got around to whipping up the sunflower runner!  I took it off the goal list and then finally did it, LOL

Not done yet LOL, two Gnome runners- to be fair these were already pieced.  So the quilting, applique and binding for this week. 

Okay that's it!  Now don't forget to stop back on Friday for a look at the new pattern!!  

This week:

1. Write up the pattern release blog post and get it listed in my Etsy shop.

2.  Make a Snowman wall hanging.

3. Go to the Amish Auction with a friend.

4. Whatever else needs making;)

Have a great week and don't forget to hop over to Linda's To Do Tuesday goal linking party!  And we can't forget our Wednesday wonderful linkup parties also...  Wednesday Wait Loss and Midweek Makers

To Do Tuesday

Another week has rolled around for To Do Tuesday over at Texas Quilt Gal.  Let's check out what I put on my to do list last week and see what I accomplished or not;)

• Finish a couple of table runners ✅
• Piece a Patriotic Welcome wall hanging- not done, not even started
• Sunflower table runner ✅
• Anything else I want to ✅

This patriotic one was made using Deb Tuckers Rapid Fire Hunter Star ruler.  Easy enough to do but there is a lot of trimming involved. But I like the result.

                              

While the patriotic fabrics were out I decided to do a red, white and blue version from the Anka's Treasure book.  It's like the one I showed on Friday in modern fabrics. 

Ya just got to do what you are in the mood to do, you know.  A patriotic version of the S swirl runner. 

Up next was to do a sunflower runner. Yes this is a new one just like ones I have done in the past:)

Anything else I wanted to do was filled by the two runners I showed you on Sunday, if you missed those you can see them HERE.  Another thing I finished wasn't on the list...the latest pair of socks.  I started these while in Arizona. 

It was a productive week.  Will this one be I don't know, come back next week to check it out.  On the list to do is:

• Start a new embroidery project
• Start a new pair of socks
• Patriotic Welcome wall hanging
• An applique stars patriotic table runner

I think I will stop there as I just am not feeling productive this morning.  But if time, energy and desire kicks in I will just make whatever I feel like!!