And Miles of Binding to Go ---

It was a Bad Hair Saturday.

But it was a good quilting day!

Mona and I pushed it to the max as we quilted SIX projects – SIX!  And by the time she left, I had pulled out a seventh – something that had been hanging around since 2004.

We were on a roll, and there was no time like the present to do it, and no reason to stop this quilting train.

A Trio of Table Runners!

Mona pieced this when she was just starting out – before we had even moved to the cabin in Virginia.  She pieced the hearts from scraps I had given her along with some she had picked up herself – Oh, there is NOTHING as fun as watching a new quilter pick out fat quarters, like a kid in a candy store!

Winter was ROUGH that year, and piecing beautiful valentine hearts was just the thing to brighten a dreary day.  The border treatment is her own, including the slanted corners –no fear this woman!

But instead of just loading three table toppers with three separate backings, I showed her how to do it all as one --

Valentine runner done – on to Christmas!

We joined her pink  backing for the valentine runner to the red backing that was big enough for the next two runners – Christmas and Patriotic.

When the valentine runner was quilted…we advanced that on the take up roller until we were at the red backing….

We ran a new straight line of basting across the batting through the red backing to give us a straight line to line up the Christmas runner and pinned the Christmas runner in place. 

The batting scrap was just the right size to do these two runners…

Quilting holly on this one!

And on to the red, white and blue!

Bu this time, we had used up the larger batting scrap for the valentine and Christmas runner and pulled out another scrap just the right size for the patriotic one, made from left over units from Mona’s Carolina Crossroads quilt from my book Scraps & Shirttails.

Unfurling after quilting – look at that texture!

Quilting on the heart runner.

Whoowhooo!

Now the fun begins - The binding!

It was fun to hear Mona say things like “Wow, I really wasn’t so great on this a couple of years ago….”  and I replied “But yes, look how far you’ve come!  You’ve got to start somewhere, and you learn with every new project!”

In the machine now…

This is my “Women of Grace and Charm” Quilt by Barb Adams & Alma Allen. Top started when the book came out in 2003, completed likely in 2004 for a shop sample.

Around the time I got it back from the shop, I was on to other things and didn’t know how I wanted to quilt it, or if I wanted to.  It has sat on a shelf for a goodly long time and after Mona left, I decided to just whip up a back, quilt it up with a wool batting and use it on the guest bed at the cabin – it will look PERFECT there and give me something ELSE to bind over Thanksgiving week as I sit with family and enjoy our time together.

I must confess though – I’m having some trouble with the quilting machine, I think we wore it out!    My nice round feather design now has herky-jerky square rounds and I adjusted the cables last night with good results, but it is acting up again this morning and I am down to that last border – it just started on this last row of quilting.  IN THE BORDER.  

And I am so not picking this out…because I just don’t care about it that much to unstitch a whole row of really good thread tension on a twill weave border fabric. GAH!

Dad comes tomorrow – and we head up to Virginia straight away for our Thanksgiving week ahead!

Entries are still coming in on our String Frenzy, Quiltmaker and Signature Thread Gift-Away.  Did you enter to win ON THAT POST?

Quiltville Quote of the Day!

Improved Nine-Patch Quilt received as a gift for Quiltville Inn!

I’ll show you the REST of it tomorrow!

Have a wonderful Sunday, everyone!