No Sewing This Week

      A week ago Tuesday I had a partial knee replacement. Before my surgery I planned to do some handwork if I could not use the sewing machine.  Some time ago I started a second crazy quilt project that stalled.  However, I could not get motivated to do any handwork. The only thing I have to share is a top pieced before surgery.  As I was cleaning and sorting scraps, I pulled together some leftovers from a couple of quilts and coordinating scraps. A few were orphan blocks from a 2010 quilt. This is the resulting pieced scrappy top.

I have plenty of other scraps and more orphan blocks which I hope to sort and use. Hope we all can find inspiration to use some scraps to make something.

Enjoy the cooler temperatures and enjoy some time sewing and quilting.

Just in Time for Halloween

    I finished the Halloween table runner 

and it was put into use the day before Halloween. 

At least it will be available for future years to decorate.  Here are a couple of close ups of the blocks.  

My GDs close the designs from a couple of different designers.  The wild cat is part of a free project from FoxChapelPublishing (You do have to sign up with an email address) and selected parts from Marjory A Peck’s “Spooky Hallows” quilt.   I edited and planned the layout.  All block designs were made using fusible applique and stitched down with the quilting. 

   

     A few years ago I used printed panels and made these 2 placemats. 

I recently decided to make a couple more with leftover motifs from the panels.  My GDs planned their blocks. 

Now these 2 are ready to be sandwiched and finished. 

The GDs had fun with the neighbors last night.

Enjoy the cooler temperatures and enjoy some time sewing and quilting.

I'm linking up with Confessions of a Fabric Addict

and Alycia Quilts.  

Finish and Work in Progress

      The past few weeks I have not spent a lot of time quilting.  Since the weather is cooler and we have had a couple of nice days of rain, I took the opportunity to work in my flower beds hoping they will be lovely next spring. 

       I have worked on quilting for my church group.  This one is quilted and just needs binding. 

I am counting it as finished even though I don’t have enough of the brown fabric for binding. I will find something.  

Here is a close-up of the quilting of each block.

I used a pastel variegated thread. I stitched in the ditch to move from one area to the next without breaking thread. It took planning to move to the next area with the shortest distance stitching in the ditch again. After I trimmed the quilt and took a photo, I saw one block that I had skipped the half feather above the fan so had to go back and quilt that.

       

      I quilted the diamonds of this giant rainbow star top and the faint blue marker is my plan for quilting free-form feathers around it. 

You can see the free-form feathers on a similar quilt in this post.

I enjoy quilting them but would like to find a new special quilting motif for large plain areas. Especially since I have 2 more of these giant star quilts to quilt. 

    I spent one day sewing a baby bunting for an expected great nephew.  The fleece is especially soft.   

   

I linked up with Alycia for Finished or Not Friday.  

Have a great day and enjoy some time sewing and quilting.