Updates to lots of projects

We had a *fun* 24 hours. We're in San Diego CA - north county and our power along with 6 million other people - was out from 3:30 until 11:00pm yesterday. We lost a box of refrigerated food - but nothing from the freezer. We only spent an additional 5-10 minutes on the commute home. Overall, we had a pleasant experience if you could call it pleasant...

Now onto the quilts...

This order will be weird... it's the way they came off the directory I had loaded...and I'm being lazy today and not changing the order. First up, this is a hexagon table topper made from the leftover 60 degree blocks I had. Cute, huh?

Next are a bunch of runners I made with border fabric. An earlier post has the pattern and the beginning of the purple runner. I saw the fall fabric runner at a quilt shop in northern MN and loved it as did my cousin. I made a few and two of them will be going back to MN. I made two purple runners and one of them goes back to my sister that originally bought the fabric for a quilt. You can also see the little hexie topper in this picture... See the lanterns on the side? They are candle lanterns and we lit them last night and ate dinner outside and then sat outside in the dark with them lit - the cast beautiful light!

 

Next is the finished "white" quilt. It reminds me of the big plastic beads we had as kids that you could make into necklages, bracelets, etc. The quilting is beautiful.

 

Here's a close up of the quilting. Yep, those are feather wreaths in the big white squares. The LAQ did them without asking and they are just what the quilt needed. I actually washed this one (don't normally) as I poked too many holes in my finders binding it and had blood spots on the binding and back. Now it's nice and clean and pretty!

 

Here's the back...using up my scrap stash for backings - love it by why does it take so long to piece???

 

Here's a close up of the back - love the quilting here too!

 

 Here's the beginning of blocks for a red/white/blue bowtie quilt. I kept the pairs connected and here's the process for ironing them which I thought was very cool... So here, two blocks are still connected with sewing and I've offset them for ironing. (color is a little off on these as it was at night...)

 Ironing while closed to set the seam.

 Flipping open the blocks in one direction and leaving the other direction...

 Half of the blocks pressed...

 Now pressing the other half of the blocks open...

 All pressed open. You see how they are going to be sewed together and I don't have to take time and match up the pairs.

 See? All ready to take back to sew together. The tricky part was figuring out when to cut the center seam connecting them. I did it two different ways and didn't like either.

I forgot to take pictures of the blocks after this point, but believe me, they were much easier to sew together. I also forgot to take pictures of the top, so I'll get that done and do another post...