Tablecloth is done!

I finally finished the tablecloth!  I really shouldn't say finally finished, it really only took me three weeks.
I decided to machine quilt it, so worked on it all day yesterday and finished about 9 pm last night.  The machine quilting took about 7 hours, but I'm happy with how it came out!  Whoever invented the walking foot for a sewing machine is pure genius!!!  It works so well and makes the quilting very easy.  The worst part of machine quilting the tablecloth was all the turning I had to do.  Anyway, on with the pictures!




 I've worked on a couple placemats, but don't like how they came out, so I'll have to keep working on them.  I didn't cut the binding for the outside on the bias, and that makes them not lay flat.  As soon as I get some done that I'm happy with, I'll post them.

Back to the tablecloth - as intricate as the pattern looks, it really was pretty easy to make. I'm tossing around the idea of making another one so we have two to change out, but really should finish one of the other projects.  Nel's machine quilts so much better than my machine, so I may work on the quilt I started years ago for our bed and quit hand-quilting it and machine quilt it instead.

Happy Halloween, everyone!

New Curtains!!!!!

I was sitting at the kitchen table the other morning and noticed how cold it was from the windows, so decided to make some curtains.  I made four panels hoping they would be enough, but it wasn't, so yesterday I went through my fabric stash and found some other fabric I had LOTS of.  Yesterday and today I spent making the second set of curtains.  Here are the pictures:
These are in the hallway :

























And these are in the dining room:

The first set I made were blue, so I decided to move them to the office.  I don't have any good pictures yet because it's too sunny outside, but I'll update them later.


So I decided to move the curtains that were in the office to the living room:

(The plant in the window is from Nel's
Memorial Service)













I'm also still working on the quilt top I brought home at Christmas.  I'm still working on the "feather" stitch between all the blocks.  I decided to work on the long seams first just to get more done. 

I did get a couple of the short sides done and I'm very happy with the way it looks.

We have another quilt class coming up at church next month.  We are going to do an Easter table runner.  I'm going to use fabric from my stash and a lot that was Nel's.  I'm anxious to do it again, I skipped the last project they did because I had too much going on and too many unfinished projects.

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Our Memory Quilt is finally done!

I worked on it this weekend, and finally finished it today.  It takes a while to sew the binding on it because the back side is done by hand.

Here it is laying on our bed:


 This is the middle of the quilt - one of my MIL's favorite sweatshirts.  I saved this one for us since I sew a lot.


And the back:

The white muslin I used was actually my MIL's.  It was some of the fabric that we brought home at Christmas when my FIL let my SIL and I clear out most of MIL's sewing supply.  The binding I used on our quilt is also some flannel that was hers.

Here is the label on the front:


And the label on the back:

I also brought home MIL's Bernina sewing machine, so I used that machine to make the label for the back.

Todd doesn't want to use it very much, which is odd because he told me we need to use the quilts we have that our mothers made.  He says they are made to be used, so we'll use them.  So tonight when he said he didn't want to use our Memory Quilt much I asked why - he said because it has more "sentimental" value (since it's made out of his mom and grandmothers clothes).

Overall I'm very happy with how it came out and extremely happy it's done!  I actually crossed something off my list of Unfinished Projects!!!!  :D

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Jyl