Creative and Productive Week!
Whew! I try to spend the morning working at whatever it takes to keep things in order or to do what needs to be done around my home. Well this week I did not sweep a floor or vacuum even one stair -- I sewed.
I spent Monday and Tuesday Morning making a table runner for a niece who is getting married on Feb 20 and having a shower on Feb 8. The table runner is two sided so that depending on what she is feeling she can lay the green/purple side up, or the log cabin scrappy blocks, side up. Actually the only difficulty with doing the two-sided table runner is when it came to layering them with the batting in between, was to make sure they were exactly lined up so that the borders would not have to be cut down at all. After I fiddled around with it I thought that it would have been a good idea if I had cut the batting to the measurements of the fabric layers and it would have been easier. I don't think that would work well if you made a whole two sided quilt but for the smaller project it should streamline things a bit better
The other dilemna with the table runner was what to bind it with so that the binding would work for both sides? I finally decided on a light mauve print because it obviously went with the purple/green side and there were some purples in the log cabin side so it went well with that too...
The other project was actually mostly sewn by members at my guild. We had a "game" at our November meeting where everyone made and brought BINGO BLOCKS, the blocks were 25 - 2 1/2 inch squares sewn so that yellows formed a row, then reds, then purples then blues then greens - the description and instructions are at http://www.fonsandporter.com/fp/onlineextras/freedesigndownloads/bingo.asp if you are interested in learning more.
After the game, instead of everyone taking home their blocks we donated them to our charity quilts program and some of our members divided them up and took home a stack (there were over 80 blocks) to make into a quilt to give back to our guild. Well, I took home 20 blocks and the above quilt is the finished product! It is a nice size, 55 x 75 with the added borders and will probably go to the local Women's Shelter, later this year. My friend Doris also took 20 blocks and she has finished her quilt too. She though, put sashing between the blocks and was able to find a multi colour border that almost exactly reflected the SHADES within the blocks, hers is considerably bigger than mine ( but then she has a BEE-LINE quilting system) so is able to do larger quilts with no trouble -- I just have my Janome 6600, which is great for quilt too, but on a smaller scale -- though, I can see myself doing a double or maybe even a queen size using a thin batting...
So that is my week!
