It looks like an ordinary little table runner, doesn’t it?
But this one’s got a little something extra going on inside — instead of just regular quilt batting, it also uses heat resistant Insul-Bright.
So this quirky little table runner functions as one large trivet, big enough to hold a 9″x13″ dish and a smaller bowl. Or a thirsty little bird. (I kind of like the way the back shows off the quilted grid pattern.)
Slowly but surely, my granny squares quilt top is coming together. I still have no idea about backing, binding or quilting method, so I’m not exactly rushing to get through it. (I love all the fabrics so much I’m tempted to just throw some fat quarters together for the backing.)
Hope you’re having a great Valentine’s day!
I need 20 squares to begin piecing together the quilt, and I get can one or sometimes two made before work each day. Slow and steady wins the race!
The fabrics are from Malka Dubrawsky’s line A Stitch in Color. Aren’t they wonderful? I’ll give full details in a future post.
I didn’t really mean to sew anything this morning. Still, I ended up at the sewing machine and about 20 minutes later I had this nifty little fold over clutch. I found the not-sequins fabric at Joann’s and fell in love, even though I have absolutely no occasions that require a shimmery purse. You may see me carrying this to the gym.
I had planned to spend a good chunk of the weekend quilting and binding this just finished quilt top:
But sometimes life throws you a surprise, like your daughter asking you to take her to the fabric store. Seriously! It happened! One of my non-crafty, video game playing daughters asked me to take her to the fabric store. So I dropped everything and took her shopping.
She set up in my crafting space and spent the weekend making Scalemates, cute little dragon-ish things from Homestuck … this thing she reads. I don’t know. It’s kind of like we live in the same house but speak different languages. But thanks to Scalemates, we found common ground. Here are the two she made this weekend, completely sewn by her own gamer girl hands:
If you’d like to make some, there is a lovely tutorial by Metroidhat. My daughter actually said “whip stitch” and knew what it meant. I’m so proud. :)
Since she had taken over my crafting space, I started something more portable based on this embroidered United States map seen on In Color Order.
I’m not sure what I’ll do with the finished map. Maybe a quilted wall hanging? A pillow?
So quilting had to wait, but it certainly wasn’t a wasted weekend!
