TABLE RUNNERS AND DOGGY PLACEMATS

 I have spent this past week doing pretty much just making table runners for my guild's January quilt show boutique.  Nothing really new just major sewing, quilting, and binding them.  

I have a bit of an assembly line going.  I really want to get this chore done and move on.  

This is the pile of completed ones waiting for me to finish them by hand sew the binding down.  Unfortunately I also another 7 left to start putting together.  But then I am done.  

This is our little Yorkshire Terrier Zoey.  My next project is for her to make some placemats.  Earlier in the year our area had an overtake of ants.  Everyone had issues with them, outside and inside.  Pest control did no good what so ever for anyone.  Zoey's didn't gobble up her breakfast, she liked to come and go all day with a nibbles here and there.  Unfortunately the ants decided her food was yummy.  Zoey found her bowl full of ants and declared she was never going to eat out of a bowl again.  The ant issue has since been eliminated, but Zoey refuses to eat anything out of a bowl now.  We usually put her bowl on a placemat, so found that if we just dumped the kibble on the placemat she would eat it, and she did decide to eat it all up right then and there to avoid the ants.

OK, yes she is a spoiled dog.  At a recent Hobby Lobby fabric shopping trip, husband saw these dog themed fabrics, and I have been assigned to make some placemats for Zoey.  We have had a few special themed mats for her in the past, but now mats have to be washed everyday rather than only changing them every few days.  That is 7 mats a week, I had better start sewing.      

   
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BOUTIQUE TABLE RUNNERS AGAIN

I am back to making table runners for my guild's quilt show boutique coming up in January.  Earlier in the year I finished up a pretty good stack of them for them, but they are asking for more.  Table runners are a big hit at the boutique and sell like hotcakes.

Last week I made up a charity quilt with these fabrics left over from a fat quarter bundle.  I still ended up with lots of them still in the scrap bin.  They are now ending up in table runner for the boutique.  There seems to be no end to them, as I have multiple squares cut and lots more of these runner to make with them.  

At our guild meetings there is a free table each month that offers all sorts of odds and ends of things we want to rid ourselves of.  It is a treasure trove of patterns, magazines, sewing tools and scraps of fabric.  I grabbed this fabric off the table and managed to get this one table runner put together with it.

And this fabric on the table too.  I have 2 more of these ready to sew up into table runners as well for the boutique.

My thanksgiving table runner is finished.  I got the binding on it this week and am so pleased with it.  Those floating leaf point were a challenge but so worth it.  Makes that leaf block center just really stand out.  

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FALL PROJECT FINISH & MOVING INTO THE NEW CHARITY QUILT YEAR

I am just finishing up the second of the last of my fall quilting projects.  My charity group distributed all 325 finished quilts to 6 different agencies this past week.  Now it is back to filling the storage container for next year.

My Autumn Nights quilt is finished.  Wished I had managed to get it finished sooner, it is off to the quilter this week and not sure it will get back before the end of this month.  No issue I may just hang it up in my sewing room and enjoy it through November anyway.  

This is my first finished top to start off the first quilt for me into the new charity group's collection for next October.  It measures 50" by 60".  

Now if someone could please tell me how this much of a 45 piece  fat quarter bundle and that quilt above along with 4 placemats, my Rosemary and Thyme quilt and a Tulip and Vine runner can be leftover.  It is a mystery to me.   

I'm off to making up a few more charity quilts for the group.  Cleaning out some of my grey scraps.  Men's and boys quilts are hard to manage.  I think this one does the trick in that department. 

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FROM PUMPKINS TO FALLING LEAVES

I have spent this last week just working on my own projects.  Making some good headway with fall seasonal items.  This is my favorite time of year and I love the new fall seasonal fabrics available now.  I am pretty sure the Fat Quarter Shop loves me.   

I finally started work on my November holiday table runner.  The Falling Leaves fat quarter bundle I ordered is just beautiful and came with a panel that I cut and used on each side of the center pieced block.

I got the pattern for the center block, must admit it was a bit complicated with all the HST's and I did not make life easy for myself as I wanted the leaf points to float to avoid cutting them off when sewing the sides pieces on and binding the runner.  I know a quilter does have to have some math skills, but no one said geometry was needed as well.  

Sure appreciate this Quilter's Select quilting ruler, which helps tons quilting this piece without having to use marking pens.

Binding all prepped and ready to add.

I finished the last of my pumpkin runners, it is off as a gift for one of our daughters.

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