Thought I would sleep in. Wade volunteered to take Waylon to school. But that did not happen. So I am. Thought I could sew for a while, but oh no, get called to the school. Go spend an hour there in a meeting and 2 hours of my day were gone. Since I was up most of the night I decided it had to be time for a nap. So my May for me started, A 2 hour nap!!!! Then to get Waylon from school and shopping for my brother. Bike fixed and back home to clean house. But I did not finish cleaning!!! I just had to sew!!!!!
While I was cleaning the scraps from my Fall Grapes quilt were on my cutting table. And I have never made a table runner, but a table runner came to mind. So with no pattern I just started to sew together scraps in the same type of way as I did with the quilt. I just connected scraps of different sizes and sewed around a few squares. When I used up the majority of the scraps, it was just the perfect size for a small table topper. I quilted it together by using a swirly loop pattern that I saw on Leah Day's web site. This is the first time I have ever done swirls. I feel that at the end I finally got the hang of it!!!! I sewed the binging on and used another stitch on my machine with swirls to add to the quilting. It was a swirl design. I am loving these extra stitches!!!
Then back to the laundry!!! And even managed a ride to the river before coming home to force my son to clean his room. That is a job in itself!
I think I will give this to Amanda to match her quilt. She is redoing an old sewing table to put beside her reading chair. I think this will be the perfect topper to protect it from what she may put on top!! Hope you enjoy my Friday Finish!!!!
Way to go, using those scraps so creatively. :) I am super bad about starting to clean but detouring to my sewing machine!
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