I feel like have haven't completed a thing, but have been sewing regularly. I have made and gifted 5 baby quilts, and I have 3 homemade quilt kits ready to take south. I also have 5 or 6 quilt tops with binding hanging in my closet - just not much completed. My youngest nephew is getting married on Sept 5. He and his bride registered for gifts, so it made it much easier to choose something that they need/want. I was able to check out her china pattern, although most of the pieces that she needed have been purchased already. I decided to make a table runner to add to our purchased gift. I used the "Salted Peanut Table Runner" pattern in Sharon Pederson's book "More Reversible Quilts". As she said, you can't make just one - this is my third, and I even managed to keep the first one! I tried to keep one side of the runner in greys, taupes and neutrals, as this will go well with the dishes. I decided to make the other side Christmas, and managed to use lots of strips from my already cut boxes of leftovers. I love her instructions for making two-toned binding - it works really well. I machine quilted the setting triangles with light grey thread on the neutral side, and dark gold "sliver" thread on the Christmas side. The quilting was inspired by the book "Hooked on Feathers by Sally Terry". I seem to add some of her techniques to almost every project lately. The pictures are found in the Quilts 2009 album, first 3 pictures.
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14 years ago