Sewing for my Mom - Rainbow table runners

Back in June 2014 my mom gave me a couple of table runner patterns and some strip sets she had made to make the bargello pattern.

Time passes and here we are summer 2015.  But I remembered them and here they are done.  They went together quite well and look grand I think.  When I gave them to her recently she was delighted and we had to clear off the kitchen table and put one on under her pepper and salt and spoon mug...

The backs were nice too and I even found some pre-printed labels to co-ordinate.

The Blue Circle Quilt done...

I finished this before Christmas so it had it's moment and now I will show it off.

I have just finished the binding on last year's Christmas quilt.  (This is the back.)  I'm not sure where it should go.  But I like it.

I might have gotten a bit carried away with the quilting (insert shrug ) but what can I say....

And one more....

Now for the Placemats

Next is the placemats.  I thought they should be blue as I love blue and it is across the colour wheel from orange.

I had this great fabric.  This is the Posh Kitty Shop panel.  The only really girly one.  The other ones are more male and as I am mostly in a houseful of boys. I guess this one is mine....

Now for the tea drinker....

The ongoing quilting

I have been instagramming my progress on the hand quilting on the frame.

I've added some leaves to the borders and plan to continue the background pattern around the leafy design.

Blue Christmas progress

I have been working most afternoons for a bit on this hand quilting project.  I am kind of torn when I hand applique something - and I usually think I should hand quilt it too.  This was an easy choice as it is relatively small.

I love the feathers especially when hand quilting...

My Circle quilt is off the Design Wall

Finally, I got my christmas quilt off the design wall and on to the hand quilting frame.  After a bit of marking, the quilting is begun,

And more hexagons

More...

Half Square Triangles a la Jo Morton

I watched  a PVRed episode of Fons & Porter and Jo Morton was the guest.  She demo-ed this clever way to make half-square triangles.  I liked it and tried to do it too.

Just us Chickens

The hand quilting is done I think, although I may add more.  I just drew a star burst from the centre rooster radiating out.  Now for the binding....

Bunny garden

I found this embroidery project on the web at Willowberry Designs.  The instructions are very good and the embroidery worked up pretty quickly.  My favourite block is the bunny garden one.  So sweet.

Completed Bow-tie Mat

I just realized that I didn't show off my new Bow-Tie Mat made from a tutorial I found on the internet.  Well here it is.

I am very pleased with the result and the quilting itself was sooo fun.

My New Old Rooster Quilt

I dug out these finished blocks last week and started sewing the blocks together.  The pattern is from Quiltmaker's All-Time Favourite series of magazines from Spring 2002.  I seem to have misplaced my copy of the magazine itself, but here are the blocks.

I am kind of crazy for needle-turned applique as you can see but in my usual way I sort of loose interest once the applique is done.  Oh, sigh....

But after quilting the bow-tie mat, I really wanted another project to quilt and this one was elected.

Binding in the rain...

So in my wanderings on line I came across a gorgeous tutorial for a bowtie block done up as placemats.  It was sooo cute I went straight to my sewing room and whipped up a mat to Lee's specs.  Today I'm binding the mat I made. And it's raining gently on the roof...