I've been working on the stash, still doing some Christmas fabric things, but also playing with some other fabrics I found, too. So, I made a couple more tablerunners and some matching coasters.
The left one is an old Hoffman Japanese fabric, chrysanthamums lined with a faint gold line. The right one is grapes and grape leaves, also lined with a thin gold line. Stashbusting stats at the bottom of the post.
I then decided to do something with some scrap fabric I found in the drawer. It is leftover fabric from the quilt I made my grand-niece, and because some was already cut in 3 inch strips, I decided to do a jelly roll race quilt. Here's a link to the You Tube video on how to do one:
I also had trouble doing the mitered corners, I got about half backwards, so I finally gave up and just sewed the strips together in straight lines! Then, I set the quilt aside to go get a drink and came back to this:
Emmy the cat cops a nap on the unfinished quilt. So I waited a while and finally, she left. I went to the kitchen to get a drink before I started quilting and I came back to this:
Dinah cops a nap on the unfinished quilt. She stayed on it all evening, so I decided I'd work on the quilt the next morning. I ate breakfast, got a drink, came into the room to work on the quilt and there he was...
Christian, settling in for a nap on the quilt!!! Eventually, he moved on, so I was able to finish it. The finished quilt is 46 X 67 inches, a good size for a toddler.
The polyester batting I used slipped and I didn't discover it until AFTER I'd stitched-in-the-ditch quilted it! I ironed the offending part towards the very edge, and then put a binding over the wrinkles. It looks a tiny bit wonky on that edge, but a baby won't notice.
Stashbusting:
Tablerunners & Coasters: 1 yard or so of various fabrics
Quilt: 1 1/2 yards of various fabrics
1 1/2 yards of polyester batting
1 1/2 yards flannel backing
1/2 spool of thread
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