Table Runners

Back to the UFO's and a few more table runners to finish.

Japanese fabric lap quilt

This quilt top has been sitting in the stash for quite a long time (at least 10 years).  So it was time to finish it.  Silly really there wasn't a lot that needed to be done.  I lost interest as I didn't like all the fabrics together, even though I loved all the fabrics....does that make sense? 10 years later, seeing it finished, I really love it.

Quilt and table runners for our loungeroom.

After seeing lots of Scrappy Trips Around the World blocks and quilts, Pattern from Quiltville, on Instagram, I couldn't help but go through the stash and try the pattern out. So much fun, and easy to do.
I started off doing 3 table runners for the nesting tables in our loungeroom

 Then I thought, maybe I will just make a small quilt with the leftover fabric, rather than put it back on the shelf.  Enough fabric "left-over for a large quilt, that covers the 2 1/2 seater couch.  Cameron thought the blocks were great, and he wanted to put them together into a pattern.  So after laying it out on the floor and him playing with the blocks for 1/2 hour, this is what he came up with.  It is now his favourite quilt.

I didn't put any fabric back on the shelf, I used up some extra blocks on the backing as well!

2012 #23rd & #24 Table Runners

still more pinks....

Last of the pinks of this shape. It's nice to see that I can be used up.

 

 

2012 #21 & #22 Table Runners

There seem to be a lot of pinks left over from quilts.

2012 #19 & #20 Table Runners

Still working on these shapes that were cut out for quilts a few years ago.

Now for the yellows.

Reversible Scrap Quilt blocks

Spending a bit of time after working through the box of 2"strips, to tackle the "less than 2" strip box. (I know, it's crazy). 
Using leftover 10" x 10" squares of wadding, I am sewing all the strips to the wadding.  Eventually I will make some quilts out of them.  It surprises me how many blocks you can make with the leftover strips that I couldn't bear to throw in the bin because they were small, but not that small. 

(On a side note, anything less than 1" gets thrown away)

That's all the less that 2" strips for now.  One day these will get sewn into a quilt.

2012 #17 & #18 Table Runner

oh no, look what I found, more of the shapes I cut out a few years ago. 

Not enough to make a quilt (maybe), so I decided to use these for more table runners.

First the reds.

Now for an orange table runner

 

Toddler dresses

Pattern by Lion Brand Yarn, called Sweet Sweater Dress

using handspun wool.

2012 #15 & #16 Table Runner

  This last green table runner is the end of the 2"strip box.  There are only a few strips left that I can't do anything with at the moment. 



2012 #13 & #14 Table Runners

Still more green 2" strips.

2012 #11 & #12 Table Runners

11th Table runner. Still using the 2" strips.

I wonder if I will ever see the bottom of this box of 2"strips.

There seems to be lots of green 2" strips in the collection. 

So I have sorted them all out and started a few of this pattern.

2012 #9 & #10 Table Runners

Pinks & purple strips into a herringbone pattern

Love reds.....

Gift Card Holder

I made a small gift voucher card holder from some scraps of fabric. The pattern comes from The Crafty Cupboard

It was fun to make

2012 #7 & #8 Table Runners

A blue nine patch...this box of 2" strips seems to be breeding when I am not looking, it still looks full!

A clean up of the study unearthed these left over shapes, that I cut out a few years ago for many colour graded quilts.  So I sewed them up together and had enough to make a table runner.

2012 #5 & #6 Table Runners

More 2" strips, this time in purple.

Pinboards

When we first moved to Berlin, I made the boys a pinboard each to collect pins of all the different places we visited while we were in Europe.  After 6 years, the pinboards had been totally full.  I added an extra panel to the boys pinboards to keep adding pins to. They went through the quilting fabric and chose the colours they wanted.

Cameron's pinboard

Alexander's pinboard

I have been meaning to make myself a board as well, for my pins.  I finally got around to it, and stuck all my pins on it.  I really like it!

2012 #3 & #4 Table Runners

The challenge....how many table runners can I make from this box of 2inch strips....

A good start, but it doesn't even look like I have taken any strips from the box...this is going to be an interesting challenge!

2012 #1 & #2 Table Runners

Well, we are living in a small house at the moment, and I do not have the space to create larger quilts.  At least with table runners I can still play with different patterns, and use up the stash.  Here is the first two, a simple 4 patch on point, and a four patch.

Quilted table runner for gifts

I had hoped to knit something for the kid's teachers for a Christmas present, but as the school fair took up most of my September - Dec, there was little time to be knitting 2 gifts as well, so I decided to make a few table runners, as I can do this a lot quicker than knitting.