Finished Table Runner!!!!!!!!!

I apologize for not blogging for a long time. I was sick for almost 10 days and couldn't do much sewing. Somehow without finishing this project I couldn't move on.  Finally ended up finishing the quilting and binding on this table runner!!!!!!!!

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For the first time I tried hand binding (backside) and boy!!!!!!....it is a lot of work. I usually sneak in to the sewing machine whenever I get 5 or 10 minutes. But hand binding took quite a long time and frequent interruptions didn't help much.

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Originally I planned some fun quilting on this. But some how my sore body didn't cooperate much. So I did some straight line quilting with different colored threads throughout. I am pretty happy how it turned out :-)).

 

As usual, my photo session doesn't end unless these two munchkins show up and run around with my work in their hand :-).



Well..... I got quite a dance show from them :-).

Meanwhile,  I tried some free motion quilting (FMQ) and it turned out okay. It is not as frightening as I thought ;-). I am still not comfortable in creating designs, but pebbles came out nicely. It gave me some courage to try and keep going with the FMQ.



That is it for this week. If you are interested in looking at quilts give yourself some time to look at Melissa's blog. She uploaded wonderful quilt pictures from the quilt show.

Meet you in the next post....till then enjoy the spring!!!!!!!!

Jyothi

Some New and some old projects

Hello there,

It has been a while since I posted here. My kids are getting sick back to back and didn't have much time to sit in front of the computer.

I was busy fixing up my son's pants and some of my dresses. Here is the applique I did for my son's pants.



His pants always rip in the knee part. Rest of the pants will be fine. I thought some animal applique would be more fun than the usual circle or rectangular patches. I assumed I was making a "sheep" until I stitched it up. Later my son said that it looked more like "yak" than the "sheep" :-(. He told everyone that it was yak :-)).  There were totally 4 sheep ;-). Somehow my 2 year old recognized it ....she said sheep right away :-))... what more than I want???;-).



Anyway I was happy that I tried something new. Next time I will come with some nice designs.

Currently I am working on two new projects. One table runner and a jeans picnic quilt. Here is the finished top for the table runner:



I used  "Moda Sewing Box By Gina Jelly Roll" for this project. My original design was different than I came up with at the end. First I planned for a block of four patches and the table top looked very busy with that design. Finally I ended up adding four blocks together to do a bigger block.  The prints in these fabric strips are beautiful and later I felt that I would have used longer strips than cutting them in squares. I always end up learning something new in my sewing process.

I haven't decided what kind of backing and binding fabrics to use. Hopefully I will finish it up next week. I want to do some fun quilting on it for sure.



Here is the stack of my fabric cuttings for the picnic quilt. I am using up my son'd old shorts/pants and our old jeans. This process takes forever...looks like I will keep on cutting even after a month!!!!!!!!!!!! I wish summer doesn't get over by the time I finish the quilt :-)).



That is it from my side now....

Enjoy the beautiful, sunny, springy weather.

Jyothi