Playing with scraps
The social whirl is underway!
The GFWC-IL District 10 luncheon was on Wednesday. We played Santa bingo. I won $41 in the split-the-pot raffle.
There was a Christmas tree trivia quiz. The average artificial tree is used for 6 years (and is in the landfill forever).....Christmas trees are grown in all 50 states....Calvin Coolidge began the Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony in 1923.
Friday evening we enjoyed dinner with Rotary friends prior to the Carthage College Christmas Festival
Familiar carols and other old and new songs, with splendid choral and instrumental music.
When I saw the fabulous turkey prints in the Benartex Harvest Festival line, my mind immediately went to fussy cutting the turkeys. I knew I wanted a project to showcase those turkeys, along with the feather prints. Placemats for the Autumn table that would work all the way to Thanksgiving seemed like a good plan.
I began with my 6-1/2-inch square ruler to figure out which turkeys I could get in their entirety with the half-yard of fabric I had.
I made a gaggle of flying geese from the dark feather print so I could set the turkeys on ...
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At the guild sewing day on Monday, I finished off the placemats and made a cloth baby book from a panel. This will be a gift for ... read more
The members of the Oxford Quilter's Guild are making placemats for Meals on Wheels recipients for Christmas so each member of the guild has been asked to make 4-5 placemats. I decided to get mine done early. So far, I have one done and three in progress. This first one was made with some charm squares that were in my stash.
The pattern can be found
I took some days finishing several small items sitting on the table and taking up space.
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These green pieces were scraps left from RSC March - the GREEN month - after I finished the green Churn Dash quilt. All batik, except the green Moda Marbles backing. These two small table toppers are for the kitchen; top of microwave oven and cupboard.
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Table runner
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The small blocks (not very clever to photograph white on white!)
The big block
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I finished all of my sewing for Christmas, yipee! First, I finished 10 placemats, using Pioneer Woman fabrics for my daughter-in-law. I curved the corners and made bias binding for the first time.
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| front of placemats |
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| back of placemats |
I had 2 different patterns for fabric chalkboards. I didn't really like either pattern, so I took the parts I liked and made some jumbo fabric chalkboards. I made 5 chalkboards, but 3 of these are for my grandkids.
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| fabric chalkboard with pockets for chalk and eraser |
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| back of chalkboards, with one rolled up and tied |
Since I got these ...
read moreI’ve decided to sell the Vintage Christmas placemats we made over our quilt along. Since we no longer entertain in our home, I just don’t need them. They have never been used, only displayed on my tables last Christmas. I’ve divided them into groups of four. If you’d like to purchase one or more groups, please let me know. The placemats are all paper pieced, with some having embroidered embellishments.
The quilting is a gently curving design, using a taupe color thread which adds texture to the backgrounds and disappears over the piecing.
The binding matches ...
read moreFor many reasons, this has been a very busy week! Today was our church Christmas Bazaar so I was adding some quilting to some placemats every time I had a bit of time to sew this week. For this set, I quilted along the red stripes both vertically and horizontally, creating a grid.
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