Red and White Table Runner #2

This is the 2nd of 2 identical Table Runners.  They were given to my sister in law and mother in law.

They were made using my Dresden ruler using mostly scrap material. 

The border on this table runner was cute dots and on the last we had stripes.  These were fun and easy to make and I think I plan to make many more as they make quick and wonderful gifts for friends.

Modern Table Runner

This past Christmas, we created a more "Modern" Quilt for my son James.  In the process of making the blocks Tanya got inspired and created the top of this Table Runner.  The blocks themselves was taken from a modern crazy - piecing technique in a book called Modern Quilting by Jacquie Gering and Katie Pedersen

Tanya pieced the top, but I could not talk her into quilting.  I toyed with how to quilt this as I had at that time not started on my sons quilt.  Eventually I ended up echo quilting inside and out of the crazy blocks.  Finding that not enough I echo quilted around each finished block and then the out side of table runner.

I really loved this table runner and it was fun to give it away as part of our family's Secret Santa that we do each year for families in our neighborhood.

Link a Finish Friday #101

I would like to start LAFF today and thank every one that linked up last week.  I was very happy to end up with 100 linked up items on LAFF #100.  Now to announce the winners for our giveaway last Friday and the winner for the month of December.

Random.org is my friend and helped me pick my winners.  Though we had 100 quilts linked up the first quilt was mine and while it would be neat to win my own giveaway, it just did not seem fair so I excluded quilt one and the winner was Quilt 41.

I use the term quilt liberally as this is a pin cushion.  Just look at the size of those strips, just an amazing little piece of art.  This wonderful link up was from Jo's Country Junction.  Thank you to all that entered.  I will email Jo & Kelli and get the information to ship them their prize.  Our second giveaway is for last month's monthly 15$ gift card and first we picked the week and then the quilt on that week and the winner goes to

The Quilting Mill.  I was really intrigued when I saw who won this, as I met him tonight at my quilt guild meeting.  The Quilting Mill is a blog by Barbie Mills, a member of my guild and she has talked many times about her husband who has designed a few quilts in the past.  This is one he finished for last Christmas.   For those interested he showed off another quilt at our quilt guild tonight that he did for a challenge, you can find a picture of him and his quilt here. Congrats to the two winners and thank you for linking up.  

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Link up Rules are simple.  Link up something you have finished, Worked on, blogged about, slaved over or other wise accomplished over the last week or so.

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Red and White Table Runner #1

I made two table runners that went to my mother in law and my sister in law, this is one of the 2.  I will have another post that shows the other one.  This table runner is similar to the one that I made for our Secret Santa recipient.

These table runners were created using a Dresden ruler that I have.  The previous table runner had skinnier blades, where as this and its sister has wider blades (I made one really long one and decided it was too long and cut it in half)

For quilting, I did a simple echo along each sewn part.  The blades I believe were 8 inches long and the inner border 1 inch and outer border 2 inches.  Originally the plan was white inner border and red outer border, but we were short on the red material and trying to use fabric from stash..

Here are the 2 side by side.  One last though Link A Finish Friday #100 was last Friday and it is still open for link up's I think it would be cool if we could get 100 linked up quilts.  Keep in mind there is a Jelly Roll for the winner so linking up is worth it.  Up to 4 quilts per person counts on link up's

Muscle Car Pillow

Another Cute Pillow made for Last Christmas gifts to the nieces and nephews.  This is a fun Muscle Car Tanya found a embroidery pattern for.  It was original designed for red but it turned out fantastic in blue.  One cute thing that I realized as I was typing this up is the blue on the corners was a fabric Jared (our son) picked out for mom for Christmas.  He gave her 15 or so fat quarters for Christmas that I let him pick out.  It was so funny how much they clashed with each other from those wild prints to poka dots.

One last though Link A Finish Friday #100 was last Friday and it is still open for link up's I think it would be cool if we could get 100 linked up quilts.  Keep in mind there is a Jelly Roll for the winner so linking up is worth it.  Up to 4 quilts per person counts on link up's