WONKY HEARTS

A crazy week again. Lots of fussing with the dishwasher.  It kept coming up with an error E15  which means it is leaking.  Service man out twice can't find the problem, but will not wash the dishes either without flooding the house.  It is only 5 years old and go figure the purchased plan ran out in February.  So yes, had to purchase a new one.  Needless to say I did not get a lot done, other than washing dishes by hand.  

I am still making a few table runners for my guild's January quilt show boutique.  This runner was fabric that was in a scrap bin I was given to sort through.  It is 13 by 28 inches.  I found the wiggly pattern of the fabric interesting.  And the fabric is cut on the straight of grain, the fabric lines are wonky.

I have lots of rulers, in fact I am an admitted tools hoarder.  This little beauty has been in a drawer for years, never used it until I decided to quilt that heart runner.

I am not a free motion quilter, just have never been able to get it.  I use the serpentine stitch for small items on my sewing machine with variegated thread.  Normally I will do straight lines but the wonky lines on this runner just did not seem to look like it would work well at all.  So I figured just to try out that ruler.

The result really looks great.  I plan to remember this trick.

These last two quilts on my agenda are ready to do the handwork on the bindings for my charity group.  This process is that last step for completing them.  They were pieced by someone, quilted by another person and then handed out to others like myself to finish the binding.  The perfect evening TV watching chore.