Tablecloth of many colors

Finished! This tablecloth was started, I'm ashamed to admit, 11 years ago in a class taught by Chris Bagley. I brought the top home from a get-away, and left in the bag for so long. It only needed a backing and binding! This year, my guild is challenging its members to finish long-ago projects. Since I've already started with 2 recent finishes, I'm looking forward to moving some more items out of their bags.


Recognize any of the Waverly prints? We had to bring home-dec pieces. To make the block (shown above), you placed nine different squares on top of each other, then sliced, shuffled, sliced, shuffled, repeat as necessary and piece. Finally, you just trim the blocks.


My completion (such a hard task) involved buying a wide muslin for the backing, tying with crochet cotton, and then machine sewing the binding on. With this much action, who would notice a crooked binding? The home dec fabrics have a teflon coating, which will help repel spills.

Can you see someone peeking out behind the curtain on the left?

It's Lucky, who is loving the radiator covers during the cold weather. I wish I could curl up with her.

Have a great day!

Finished- mini quilt

Have you ever made one of those jelly roll 1600 quilts ? They are the ones where you take a package of 40 2 1/2" strips and sew them together to make a really long strip and then sew that strip together, snip it, and sew it together again several more times until you end up with a quilt. I know - a very bad explanation, but this technique makes a very fast quilt. The 1600 is because there are 40 strips that are about 40 inches long. Google 1600 quilt if you want to see videos of people making these tops.

For a wedding gift, I had sewn the batik strips together on the diagonal, leaving the opportunity for some leftover tiny half square triangle bits. These I pieced together, making the center of my tiny quilt and thought of using them as a pretty potholder. My very wise quilting friends told me I was crazy, so the center just sat around. Since I'm on a finish it bent, I decided to make a mini-quilt. 

I didn't even baste, just pinned the quilt together with batting and tried matchstick quilting, somewhat following the path of the squares on this batik.

It finishes at 9 inches square and I call it Summer Rain.

There are small triangles in the back so a shortened chopstick can be used as a hanger. 

Now, I'm digging deeply into the quilt cave to find more beginnings to finish!