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.

Fabric for Table Runner

The potholders are all sandwiched and quilted (with two layers of cotton batting), and binding cut and sewn to three of them. Quitting for the day.

Earlier, I went to Hobby Lobby and got the fabric for my customer's table runner.

Farmers' Market Hexagon Potholders

Here are the tops of 8 potholders I'm making for my great-niece's wedding a week from Sunday. Now to layer, quilt, and bind.

Rowenta Steam Station

A friend wanted to know how my Rowenta steam station looks, juxtaposed with my ironing board.  So here it is.  Would you  believe, that's the same ironing board someone gave us as a wedding gift, almost 40 years ago?

When I need a large ironing surface, I use my marble table.  But it's in the basement, and my quilting studio is on the second floor; so that's a little unhandy.  Usually, if I need to iron entire quilts or backings, I do it as I'm loading it on my frame, which makes matters much simpler.

Because my friend wanted pictures, I finally got around to putting the new cover on my ironing board.  😃  The ironing board is usually in the little office, next room on the landing; but there's barely enough room in there to get a good picture.  So I pulled it around the corner into the little library, of which I'm particularly fond.  It used to be Caleb's room.

Tiger, as usual, has to get in the picture.

Camper Placemats

It's Loren and Norma's first anniversary today, so I made them camper-themed placemats.  The two inner 'borders' is actually a double flange.

Stars Table Runner

The Stars table runner is complete.  It measures 17" x 49".  Along the flange are square glass beads.  The pantograph is Pink Hibiscus.  The top thread is burgundy Omni #40 by Superior, and the bobbin thread is #60 Bottom Line.  The batting is cotton.

Maxwell House Placemat, Tin, and Cup

My mother-in-law found the placemat I made for her late husband a few years ago, and gave it back to me.  The matching cup was lost when she married my brother and moved to his house (he's 22 years years older than me, just a few months older than she is).

So I ordered a new cup and a tin, too, from eBay.  The cup arrived broken today.  I've notified the seller, and ordered another one.  I plan to enter the placemat in our County and State Fairs this summer.