A few more December projects

I made a quick Christmas table runner for my gift swap at work.  I used a pattern I found on PinInterest.  It was originally made out of canvas.  I used fabric and batting instead.

I also finished up a churn dash quilt for my daughter and son-in-law.  That was the late Monday night sewing spree.

I did not get the whole quilt in the picture as I took this at 11:30 at night because I was mailing it early the next day.  

I have more quilts that my husband took pictures of and has not emailed them to me yet.  I will post as soon as I get him motivated.

Daugher and Grandson Quilts

These are two of the quilts I made this weekend.  One for my daughter and one for my grandson.  My daughter is not a bright color, modern fabric kind of girl so I made a neutral quilt for her.  The fabric for my grandson's quilt is zippety doo dah.

I did not get them photographed in the daylight so my husband made the best of it when he photographed them tonight.  I wanted to get them in the mail for their birthdays, the 17th and 18th respectively.  I have to be out of town all week on business so my husband has been tasked with mailing duty tomorrow.  

I have one more almost done.  I ran short of thread with 8" to go on the binding.  Oh well.  

Busy, Busy

I got my son's Asian inspired quilt sent off last week.  I used Daiwabo taupe fabric in cotton and woven cotton on the front.  On the back my son had picked out two fabrics he liked when he was here last December and I pieced them together like he wanted.  Some math involved.  It turned out really great.  I love that fabric.  My husband and I took a field trip and he photographed the quilt at our favorite spot in Austin.

I have been busy over the holiday finishing more quilts.  My dad's is all done except hand sewing the binding to the back.  I have my daughter's pin basted and I have the back of my grandson's quilt all pieced.  Whew.   I also got my November block done for my block swap.  I have one more day off to get more done this week before I go back to work.  I have lots to get done before Christmas.

Wildfire Quilt

I finally got done with my Wildfire Charity Quilt for kids whose homes burned in this summer's Bastrop wildfires.  I had to do a little math to get the pieced back done.  It was not too bad.  I had some low loft poly backing which I used for this quilt.  My machine really did not like it very much.  I had a little trouble with my bobbin thread.  Note to self:  Don't ever use this again even if it is on sale.

My block swap adventure blocks

I got my October block from my block swap adventure swapper and I have a sneak peak at the block I made her.  She wanted a specific block from Lily's Quilts called Lynne Bob Square Pants.  It had a lot of hst's.  Luckily they were the size I had on my Accuquilt Die.  That did speed things up a little.

I had my own adventure.  I had a nuclear stress test a few weeks ago that my doctor had some questions on.  I went in Monday for my follow-up and she suggested a cardiac catheterization.  I went in on Tuesday and they found a blockage in my right coronary artery.  Now I am the lucky owner of two stents.  I only had to stay one night in the hospital and I am going back to work half day today.  The miracles of modern medicine.  I am a little gimpy from them going through my femoral artery up to my heart but otherwise feel great.  

Block Swap Quilt Block

I sent off my first block last month and forgot to post a picture of it.  She wanted red, white and blue.  I did a star in a star pattern I got from my daily blocks I get from Quilt Pro.  Those blocks finally came in handy. It is so easy to import the block pattern, pull it up and print out templates.  Yeah Quilt Pro.  Well you are going to have to imagine this in red white and blue since I forgot to take a picture of it.  This is my practice block with my purple themed fabrics.  These are 12" blocks.

Quilting Fun

I have been fairly productive, I just haven't posted recently.  I went to a local quilt show recently and saw some beautiful quilts and bought some beautiful batik fabric.  I am making a batik quilt using my "Fat Quarter Shuffle" easy peasy pattern.  I used the same pattern for the charity quilt below that I pieced several months ago.  I ran out last week to get border fabric and luckily found a match to one of the fabrics in the quilt.  I need to get that quilted up by the end of the month for the "Wildfire" quilt drive in our area.

I also finished up a table topper that I had pieced a while ago.  I used a charm pack of Terry Thompson Clothier fabric.  Can't remember the name right now.  This was for our silent auction for our charity drive at work.  We put together a kitchen basket with some homemade and some store bought items.  My contribution was the table topper and two machine embroidered kitchen towels.    I had a busy weekend last week getting those items done.  I also pin basted my son's Asian themed quilt with a pieced backing.  I will get a picture of that tomorrow when I get it done.  I also have to cut my 2 1/2" strips together for my Civil War fabric swap.  I am getting tired just talking about it.