The Give Thanks table runners are finished!
The runner with the darker Give Thanks words measures 16 1/2" by 23 1/4".
And the back looks like this.
You don't see the clam shell quilting on the front very well.
The runner with the yellow Give Thanks measures 15 1/2" by 22 1/2".
And it's back looks like this.
My friend Carol was the embroiderist (that may not be a word but I just invented it), I attached the borders and did the hand quilting. I also sewed the single fold bindings.
The embroidery is from the Give Thanks Table Runner designed by Meg Hawkey for Crabapple Hill Studio.
I'll let Carol choose which runner she wants to gift to her friend, either one is fine with me. Now I have an autumn table runner and it's still summer! Two more small projects finished!
I've stumbled across another hand embroidery sew along over on Days Filled With Joy. I don't know when it started or ends but the patterns are free for now. You're all adults, you can do the checking to see what's it about.
Next Sunday I'll show you the next small project I'm working with. This one will keep me busy for the rest of the summer.
I took more pictures of flowers from the beds. Next winter I'll come back to these posts and look at the flowers, so colorful!
The lilies I had shown you earlier have finished blooming. Now the asiatic lilies have started. I have 3 separate plants. They look similar but they're all different.
The day lilies are also blooming, I have several different colors.
Those were all single blossoms, here is a double bloom.
The tall phlox are starting to bloom now. I did thin out some of these but they need more work. The yellow day lilies got in the picture too.
The black eyed Susans are full of blooms along with the purple cone flowers.
I know it's hot and humid but summer is still my favorite season of the year.
Linking to Kathy's Slow Sunday Stitching, Oh Scrap, Bambi's Show & Tell Monday, Monday Making, Design Wall Monday, BOM's Away, Moving It Forward, WIPs On Wednesday
After finishing the quilting on Miss Jane, the first Give Thanks table runner went into the hoop quilting frame. Now remember, I did NOT do the embroidery, my friend Carol did.
It's quilted and the 2nd runner is now on the frame. I'll wait until it's finished to sew the bindings.
Here a close up of the center.
I hand quilted around the embroidery with regular weight quilting thread.
For the 1 1/4" cross hatching I used #12 Sulky thread. It's a variegated cream/beige color. I also used the same thread to stitch in the ditch by the narrow dark brown border.
The leaves on the trees reminded me of clam shells so that's what I did, I quilted 2 1/2" clam shells on the outside border.
The clam shell quilting doesn't show much on the front but looks very nice on the backside. I used a variegated gold thread on the outside border, also Sulky #12 weight.
Linking to Kathy's Slow Sunday Stitching, Oh Scrap, Bambi's Show & Tell Monday, Monday Making, Design Wall Monday, BOM's Away, Moving It Forward, WIPs On Wednesday
I've completed 2 small table toppers ready to be quilted.
This project was a collaboration between my friend Carol and I. She wanted to make a autumn table runner for a friend. I had a pattern but really didn't want to embroider the design. So . . .
SHE did the embroidery and I added the borders and will do the quilting. She actually finished the embroidery more than a year ago, I just couldn't decide how to finish them. I had thought about piecing maple leaves but wasn't very excited about that idea.
# 1 measures 17" by 24".
I told her to make them slightly different. I like # 1 better because the Give Thanks shows up better.
# 2 is a tad bit smaller and measures 16" by 23". Carol embroidered the Give Thanks in soft yellow and it doesn't show very well.
I made this one slightly smaller so I could use leftover pieces from #1.
When I saw this fabric at Yoder Department Store, I knew I had found the perfect fabric for borders. The fabric is Sound of the Woods, design #17499, original artwork by James Weins Atelier Licensed by Wild Apple for Robert Kaufman
The embroidery is from the Give Thanks Table Runner designed by Meg Hawkey for Crabapple Hill Studio. I only used the embroidery design and didn't sew the table runner the way the pattern was designed.
Two more small projects ready for hand quilting!
Linking to Let's Bee Social, the Peacock Party, Confessions of a Fabric Addict, TGIFF!, Brag About Your Beauties, Finished Or Not Friday
