My Sewing Studio

Sunday, September 1, 2019

Hexagon Farmer's Market Table Topper

Farmer's Market hexagon table runner with fabric origami star in the center.  It's 35" across, from side to side.






Sunday, August 18, 2019

New & Improved Customer's Freeform Table Runner

Since the quilting didn't show up well enough on the first table runner, I remade it.  The first runner had one layer of cotton batting and matching thread.  This one has two layers of Quilters' Dream Wool batting and contrasting thread.














Saturday, August 17, 2019

Top of Customer's Table Runner, Version 2.0

The top of my customer's Freeform table runner, version 2.0, is done.  Tomorrow I'll start quilting it.


Saturday, August 3, 2019

Freeform Table Runner, Finished

My customer's Freeform table runner is all done. It measures 14" x 53". I did it similar to Sweet Pea's version, but rather than doing it all in the hoop on a fancy embroidery machine, I drew a pattern, cut, sewed it together, and quilted it free-motion on the HQ Avanté longarm. 

I reset the tension on my sewing machine (a Bernina Artista 180E), and once again it's stitching like a champ. I sew bindings on entirely by machine, stitching in the ditch for that last step, rather than doing it by hand. The edge caught by that stitching is 1/16" wide.  (See last two pictures.)
















Addendum:
After getting this table runner back, I ordered these vases to go with it, and will give runner and vases as a gift to our daughter-in-law.  They are large -- about a foot tall, ten inches or so wide, and narrow from front to back.



Thursday, August 1, 2019

Quilting the Freeform Table Runner

Quilting of the Freeform table runner has begun.





Freeform Table Runner

The top of my customer's Freeform table runner is done, and I'm ready to load it on my quilting frame. Also, here are pictures of Larry working on the fifth-wheel camper, a newly-bloomed clematis, and petunias. He wants me to make a quilt for that camper.  😊







Tuesday, July 30, 2019

Farmers' Market Potholders

Tonight I finished the set of eight Farmer's Market potholders for my great-niece Danica's wedding gift.  Her wedding is next Sunday.  I will also give her a Southern Living cookbook, and a keepsake:  an old cookbook that used to be my mother's, her great-grandmother's, Biblical Garden Cookery.










These are the backs.