I’m finally starting the circle quilt. It took me 4 tries to find the right background fabric. The first I thought of using was the 2nd from the left in the bottom row of this picture. But it was too busy on our dining room walls. Then I thought about using solid chocolate brown, then a retro big floral print. Today I drove down to Mouse Creek Quilts and found this Purl “Cake Rock Beach” fabric with brown on brown dots.
Tag: applique
Other posts on this project: Table Runner Pt. 1, Table Runner Pt. 2, Table Runner Pt. 3, Table Runner Pt. 4, Table Runner Pt. 5, Table Runner Pt. 6.
It’s finished!
Other posts on this project: Table Runner Pt. 1, Table Runner Pt. 2, Table Runner Pt. 3, Table Runner Pt. 4, Table Runner Pt. 5.
The quilting is done! Now I have to square it up and bind it. I used a blueish/almost teal colored Gutermann thread for the quilting, and I’m happy with it. I almost quilted with orange thread, but there’s already a great deal of orange in this, and I wanted to bring out the blue/green more.
Other posts on this project: Table Runner Pt. 1, Table Runner Pt. 2, Table Runner Pt. 3, Table Runner Pt. 4.
I got the backing fabric and batting cut, and I made my quilt sandwich, drew my grid lines, and pinned up the whole thing. Now I just need to quilt it, trim it, and bind it. I was hoping to finish it this weekend, but since I painted the bathroom I didn’t really get the chance. But it shouldn’t be much longer until it’s done!
Other posts on this project: Table Runner Pt. 1, Table Runner Pt. 2, Table Runner Pt. 3.
I just realized this didn’t get posted, I thought I scheduled it to go for this morning. So I finally finished blindstitching all the patches onto this table runner last week, the hand sewing part is done. But I’m using the table runner for a little visual experiment. The LCD on my camera died in Cancun, and I’ve been using Adam’s little point and shoot for the past month. It’s perfectly useable, but it’s not ideal. Adam also has 2 fairly serious Canon SLRs complete with several lenses, and I’m basically trying to figure out what I’m looking for in a camera. My camera still takes pictures, but I cannot see what I’m taking pictures of (both the screen and the viewfinder are LCD and shot). So I’m going to compare the quality of photos on all 3 cameras to try and decide what to do next.