October 2020 Newsletter

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September 2020 Show & Tell

 

Table Runner Challenge

 Carol Allen says  "Attached are my pictures of some table runners I attempted to make.  The first one, Dreidel front, I made for my daughter.  The Hebrew letters on each block are what is on each side of the dreidel.   It can be used either as a table runner or a wall hanging.  The second picture is of the back (didn't know how to get it in one picture).  It's just one  piece of material but I wanted to thank Lynn Miller for the backing."

 Carol says "The third picture was supposed to be of a reversible table runner.  I got the patterns off of a Missouri Star Quilt tutorial.  I thought that would be easy to do but when I finished each side, I realized I didn't know how to quilt it so I wouldn't ruin one side or the other.  I did ask for some advice and the consensus was to do free motion overall quilting.  But I'm not very good at that so instead there are two table runners.  Obviously, I haven't finished the blue, black and white one." 

 

Martha Dykes has 4 crazy corona table runners

Sharon McAuliffe says "This table runner was made after seeing something similar at Missouri Star quilt shop in Hamilton, Missouri, while I was traveling. The center portion is made from salvages. I made this for my sister but I have two others that I use for sewing machine covers. They dress up my sewing room nicely. It measures 32"X19"."

Helen Shaver has two runners 

 

For the one below, Helen says "Found this in the Autumn Quilter’s World magazine and made it for my grandkids!   Cute and easy!"

 

 

Tina Wujick says "The pattern Is “Low Tide” by Gudrun Erla Of GE designs. It is 14”x 50”.

It is a quilt as you go project which means you sew each individual top strip to the batting and backing, add the next strip and continue thIs process until all the strips are joined together. Then I machine stitched the binding." 

Kathy Zahaczewsky says "Here are my newest table runners......

The black and white are leftover blocks from my niece’s quilt and the flower one is the suggested one from Missouri Quilts."

 

These are not table runners, but Ginny Mayes has been very busy making quilts.  She says "When I went looking for mask fabrics a few weeks ago, I found a cache of purple floral quarter-yards that I had bought eons ago but never used. I paired them up with some purple and raspberry wave fabrics and a few florals left from masks to make the Colorworks quilt.

The second quilt is a Rainbow Rails made with mask scraps in what I think of as “camping” colors. I tried to make it gender neutral and used a triangle quilt pattern on it."

Ginny says  "Okay, so yeah, I am getting tired of this pattern. I have two more made in this pattern, ready to quilt. But then I will be looking for a different way to use the mask scraps.

I really like the look of the golden brown (caramel?) background in the first one. The second one is made of dark florals but my camera could not distinguish the colors. Some of the fabrics in the dark floral are ancient — I made dresses to wear in India in 1988 out of the green in the right bottom corner of the detail photo and the navy with red flowers above that."

 

Ginny says  "Last week I sewed 81 masks for this week’s March in Washington and I used a lot of meba wo abrokyere Ghanaian fabrics that I had been given for that purpose. I already had some of that wax block print President Holland fabric that I got at Mama Bonsu’s shop. I had seen the most adorable pattern of girls in the African fabrics with headdresses on, and decided to make one with the scraps. Um, make that three. I mean, once you drag all those fabrics out, you might as well keep cutting, right?

I had enough bright African fabrics and batiks that I could have made several more, but I kind of forgot about background fabrics. Oops. For the bits around the girls, I used the same cream batik with a faint feather pattern on it. Yay! I had enough! Except, duh, since the blocks were set on point, I needed enough for the side and corner triangles. Problematic. I had another cream batik that had little beige droplets on it, and it blended well enough that I could use it for most of the remaining triangles. But alas, I had to resort to a third cream-based batik with branches on it. I used that for the bottom triangles on the third quilt. I did not have enough, and had to get mighty creative in how I pieced together the last two triangles. This is all I have left. That is it! Hardly worth saving in the scrap box! (But I will, because I want to make a low-volume plus sign quilt with scrappy background, so these will likely end up in that quilt.)

The African Queens are all in rows, ready to become quilt centers. They are so cute!  I had intended to make little Flying Geese rooftopped huts for the borders, but the tops are big enough now that I think I will just use some of the African fabric to make simple borders and then make a separate quilt (or two or three) of the huts."