Another one bites the dust! :D

Sep 15, 2007 23 Replies

I finished the table runner for MIL yesterday! Yippee! This is to be a Christmas gift for her (it will stop her from kidnapping my blue/yellow table runner, I hope ;) ), but I wanted it finished in time for Thursday, when I'll be teaching paper piecing to my quilt group. Whew! The photo doesn't show much of the machine quilting on this one; I did feathers in the setting triangles, but the print hides them pretty well. I did angles spirals (I can't think of another way to describe it!) in the white background sections of the blocks and more feathers in the navy sashing around the end blocks. You can see it at .



Now I'm off to work on DGD's Christmas stocking, after I run a few errands. :)


I magnified the view and was able to see the spiral quilting - perfect for the design. Is this the first block that you have made from Carol's new book? I still have to commit myself to paper piecing something other than the 'Shambles' wallhanging. I have to ask though: does your MIL have handy access to your website? jennellh

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Thanks, Jennell. :)

Yes, though I suspect I'll be making more somewhere along the line. I don't like all of the blocks there, but I do like some of them. They aren't "real" mariner's compasses, but they are pretty. :)

LOL! Nope! She doesn't own a computer and can't see very well anyway, since she has macular degeneration. My DDs aren't likely to go look at my site, so they won't mention it to her, either. :)

That's lovely Sandy. The colours look terrific together. Nice and early, too! . In message , Sandy writes

Kidnapping? Is that what it's called? Every year when we begin our Christmas shopping list we start with things that have sort of become permanently absent. Yes. Kidnapping probably describes the situation. Polly

That is fabulous Sandy. The colour choice is always a winner for me!

Nicely done. Dancing in the moonlight for your finishing spree, Sandy!

Karen, Queen of Squishies

Your "safe" with this one..being as how I just finished a table runner for our table. Nevermind that it's fall themed--it could be stretched a lil beyond. I have veggies for the next set of placemats that I've been working at for mumble years... ran outta steam on it when I first started, worked on it a bit last year and now am to the point of MQ'ing them. I'll get there--maybe by next Feb........cause I have roses ready to MQ for Jan.

Butterfly (and I already have a blue/yellow tablecloth)

Thanks, Estelle. I do love blue and yellow! :)

Yup!

Exactly. ;)

Thanks, Pat! :) I needed it to be early, since I'm also going to use it as a sort of "demo" when I teach paper piecing on Thursday to my quilt group. Two birds with one stone, you see.

I love it Sandy, but I love blue and yellow.

I love the header 'Another one bites the dust! :D' That was all I could think of when I wrote to one cousin telling her of another cousins death after we had a 'run' of aunts and uncles passing away. That line just got in my head at the time and I thought that it would be a great song to play at my funeral. I know that my sister and at least one uncle would have appreciated the humour.

Dee in Oz

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Thanks, Dee. :)

It might seem a bit macabre to some, but the humor in it does appeal to me.

I am so glad that you enjoyed my sense of humor Sandy. I certainly hesitated many times before I wrote that.

Dee in Oz

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