Another birthday popped up in our family, and I needed to make a pretty and useful gift for the birthday girl. So I found a favorite piece of fabric in my stash, and a couple of other fabrics to go with it, and made another zippered bag.
Like the last time I made a zippered bag, I got help from a video on YouTube. It’s one I’ve used before for zipper application tips, but this time I followed the entire process. You can’t beat Jenny Doan’s videos for clarity:
Oh, that Missouri Quilt Co. They know just how to tempt me by offering specials on all sorts of quilting goodness that I can’t resist.
Case in point: not long ago, they emailed me with a special on a charm pack from a line called Poppies by Rachel Shelburne. What’s not to like about this line? So cute!
In keeping with my plan to use a new-to-me pattern on each project, I decided a tumbler pattern would work well. Being too cheap to buy a tumbler template, I instead watched this video by the Gourmet Quilter.
And here it is, my new tumbler table runner:
For the backing, I used a piece of fabric from my stash that I just love:
I’ve made quilts from two or three charm packs, but table runners seem perfectly suited when I have just one charm pack.
I didn’t make the Sunny Days quilt for any specific purpose; I saw a jelly roll of this line by Benartex in my daily email from Missouri Quilt Co. and decided I had to have it. Flipping through my quilting books, I found a pattern for jelly rolls that seemed like a good fit.
I backed the quilt with a lovely bright green fabric from my stash, which could probably be considered vintage since it’s at least 20 years old.
I ended up with two spare blocks, hence the pillow. Now that I have granddaughters, perhaps one of them will enjoy this quilt at some point 🙂
This quilt was pieced and free-motion quilted on my supermachine, which I am enjoying immensely, and highly recommend!
I’ve been busy making quilts but have had trouble getting photos of them on this blog. Now I finally have some photos to share.
I made this particular quilt last fall for someone who suffered a tragedy in her life a year ago. I used batiks to represent the colors of the ocean as she mentioned that she had decorated her bedroom with a beach theme. In the border I quilted one of my favorite Bible verses, one that greatly helped me during a traumatic time in my life many years ago. The backing is sand-colored Kona cotton.
The pattern is the “Double Slice Layer Cake” pattern from Missouri Quilt Co., which I’ve used before. The batiks are from Connecting Threads and I quilted this in a stipple/meander pattern using Aurifil thread, to which I have become addicted.
A while back, I emailed a friend a link to this video, saying “This looks like fun!” And the next time I saw her, she had already made the quilt! So of course I had to try it, and discovered that you really can make a quilt top in a little over an hour, and have fun doing so. Here’s my version post-quilting:
Another project I made was a Secret Santa gift for someone at church. This name of this table runner is “Ripple Effect,” and it comes from Gudrun Erla’s book, “Fast and Furious Family.” It was easy and fun to make, and now I want to make one for myself!
