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.

Another project from my Mom - Rainbows

This was the other project my Mom gifted me with.  I don't know why she stopped. She said she made a mistake and it needed to be ripped out.  I don't know it looks good to me.

The pattern came from a newspaper so it is years old (maybe 20).  But it is kind of kit - like in that it was all cut out and ready to go.

With a few minutes of sewing I had the three strip sets ready to go.

Progress on a couple of fronts

Still working on the blue table runner for the front hall table.  The hand quilting has started.  I thought first to just do lines down each zigzag.  But when I started I thought of my mom and her love of 1/4 in quilting inside every piece so I started and now I must finish.  It's not bad though.

Then I took over the living room carpet again with my hexagons.  I am trying to join the two large pieces in the middle and it is more problematic than I thought.  Trying to get the two pieces to align is a bit of a challenge.