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Table Runner Finish

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This is the second table runner I have finished in two days.

This table runner is made from fabrics that my mom and I purchased in March 2023 in Mesa, Arizona. The yellow fabric that we originally purchased was far too bright and so I traded it for a butter yellow Grunge fabric from my stash.

This runner finishes at 15 1/2″ x 43 1/4″ and is made from a free pattern called, “Fat Quarter Table Runner” by Spring Leaf Studios. This is not a published pattern per se, but rather it appears on a September 11, 2012 blog post by Spring Leaf Studios. This is the link that will take you to the pattern. http://www.springleafstudios.com/2012/09/lets-get-acquainted-blog-hop.html

This is a fantastic pattern that makes up quickly using just 2 fat quarters and some strips of coordinating fabrics plus a fabric for binding. I used one of the fabrics that appears in the narrow center strips for my binding.

This table runner will be gifted to my mother.

Note: Binding strips for this runner were cut at 3″ wide. Stitched to quilt using a walking foot that was fully positioned on the quilt sandwich. Needle position moved 3 spaces to the right on Bernina Virtuosa 150 (Heidi).

Table Runner Finish

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I just finished quilting a table runner.

This is Let’s Play Hearts, a pattern by Terry Atkinson of Atkinson Designs.

Terry’s pattern suggests making the table runner with 8 full hearts and 2 half hearts which gives you a table runner measuring 14″ x 38″.

I opted to make my table runner with 12 full hearts and 2 half hearts which gave me a table runner that finished at 14″ x 52″.

Note: Binding strips for this runner were cut at 3″ wide. Stitched to quilt using a walking foot that was fully positioned on the quilt sandwich. Needle position moved 3 spaces to the right on Bernina Virtuosa 150 (Heidi).

Floral Chain

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This is a project that I started on December 26, 2009 with my good friend, Linda J. The center if this quilt was completed quite quickly and then progress stopped at attaching the borders. With the help of “I Love Lucy” reruns, I finally attached the borders a year later. I used to think I got stuck at the attachment of the borders but clearly it is the quilting part of quilt construction that stops me because this top sat in the flimsy pile for 15 years before I managed to get it quilted and bound in 2025.

After finishing this quilt to the flimsy stage, I asked my husband if he liked this one. He first asked if it was for him. Why is it when you are looking for feedback, they want to know if it is for them? I told him it could be for our bed and then yes, it would be for him and me…..but that was not really answering the question. Then he replied that he wasn’t sure he liked yellow and green together? I asked him if he didn’t think this quilt looked summery. I am not sure I totally heard the answer, nor did I ask him to repeat it. My daughter came by and told me that she likes it. Mental note to self…..don’t ask husband for opinions on my quilts….stick with daughter’s opinions!

Floral Chain quilt hanging on clothes line at Agassiz house after being finished to a flimsy.

The border fabric is a Hoffman print that has been aging in my stash for quite some time–just waiting for this project to come along.

Quilt detail.
Finished quilt hanging in Chilliwack Quilters’ Guild Quilt Show.

Quilt Pattern: Daisy Chain by Terry Atkinson of Atkinson Designs.

Quilt Size: 84″ x 106″.

Quilted by me on my long arm using the Swirls quilt design.

Looking Sharp

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This quilt is made from a panel. I cut the panel into individual blocks comprised of cactus blooms and pieced them into squares using the Maple Island Quilts pattern – BQ.

Looking Sharp – Finished to the flimsy stage on July 4, 2011.

I bought the cactus block panels at the 2010 Creative Stitches and Crafting Alive Show held at Tradex in Abbotsford.

The BQ pattern is written for 12″ and 18″ sized blocks.  In order to proportion the block to fit the cactus prints, I resized the pattern to make a 9″ finished block.  I then set the blocks together with sashing and cornerstones from the same fabric as the background fabric in the blocks to give the appearance that the blocks are floating on the quilt top.  I used cornerstones to assist with lining the blocks up from one row to the next. 

This pattern remains one of my “favorites” as it pieces up quickly and is a great go-to for showcasing those prints that I seem to be attracted to.  This quilt was pieced to the flimsy stage on July 4, 2011 and was quilted on June 10, 2025 proving that we should never give up on even the oldest of our UFOs. 

Looking Sharp as a finished quilt – almost 14 years from the flimsy stage – hanging in the Chilliwack Quilters’ Guild Quilt Show.

Quilt size: 56″ x 76″

The book that you bought that you haven’t made the quilt from yet challenge – Update

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I am happy to report that my challenge quilt is quilted and bound, ready for entry in our guild’s little display at this year’s Creativ Festival in Abbotsford on March 24 and 25, 2017.

 

SISTERS IS OFF THE GRID - hanging in the 2017 Creativ Festival

SISTERS IS OFF THE GRID – hanging in the 2017 Creativ Festival


Title of Quilt: Sisters is Off The Grid
Quilted by: Me (Silverthimble Quilting)
Size: 64 inches x 74 inches
Book / Magazine / Pattern: Love Patchwork & Quilting Magazine – Issue Twenty Six
Author / Designer: Jo Avery and the Edinburgh Modern Quilt Guild
Title of Original Quilt: Off The Grid
About the Quilt: The quilt was created as the Edinburgh Modern Quilt Guild’s Charity Quilt Challege entry for QuiltCon 2015. The challenge was to make a quilt using an ‘off-grid’ construction. The EMQG produced their version of the quilt in a random, improv style and Jo Avery produced the pattern for a structured version of the quilt. My version of this quilt uses a mixture of prints and solids. In 2014, some members of the FVMQG took a bus trip to Sisters, Oregon in July to see the annual Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show. We were able to visit the famous Stichin’ Post, a quilt shop located in Sisters that is owned by Jean and Valori Wells. I purchased two fat quarter packs of Valori Wells’ fabrics as my souvenir of the trip and used them along with coordinating solids in my version of this quilt. Sisters is a very small town with a population of only 2,038 (as of the 2010 Census), located 155 miles southeast of Portland in the high desert. The Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show is internationally recognized as the world’s largest outdoor quilt show displaying more than 1300 quilts representing fiber artists from around the world. More than 10,000 visitors from all over the world flock to Sisters on the second Saturday in July every year to attend this quilt show.