It’s that time of year! The big finishes are secrets, but there’s also lots of little finishes in between, so… Here’s a pile of the little stuff, in holiday order!
THANKSGIVING TRIVETS
My neighbor asked for Thanksgiving trivets, and I bought a bundle of this fabric from Walmart or Tuesday Morning a few years ago. She said she was fine with scrappy patchwork, so I cut out two 12” squares from the focal fabrics, then everything else into 3” strips.
A bit of strip piecing later and voila - trivets! I double stacked Insul-bright interfacing and quilted them with a turkey design, which you totally can’t see at all.
See!? Totally on theme and then I just sewed on the backing and Mr. Turkey disappeared. Ah well, I know he’s there.
The top stitching was a delight with two layers of Insul-bright, but whatever. Not offering them for sale so they don’t need to be perfect. Neighbors get the almost perfect stuff. (Sorry, Judy!)
thanksgiving table runner
And then, since I had plenty of 3” strips leftover (it was a five fat quarter bundle), I kept piecing and piecing and piecing until I had a lovely runner for my own Thanksgiving table. In true last minute fashion, I put the binding on just before putting the turkey in the oven, and hand stitched it to the back while racing the roast. (I won. Barely.)
I didn’t take a picture of the quilting, but it’s a scrolly border design that fit nicely onto the 15” of runner.
CHRISTMAS PILLOWS
And then… So I should probably mention that I was quilting all this on a flat sheet - I like to do this a couple of times a year and just quilt up the accumulated leftover projects and pillow covers. In this case, I also had two pillow covers from my mother in law to longarm, so I was just slapping whatever fit on the sheet in between.
One of those things that isn’t pictured here is the scrappy version of Oh What Fun - you’ll have to wait until next week to see that! I used a 10” square/layer cake (Gingerbread & Holly by Connecting Threads) to make the scrappy version, which left me with leftover pieces that were 10” wide but varying lengths. I sewed them all together on the 10” side, cut the strips in half (so I had two 5” x Really Long Strips.) Then I cut them into 19” sections, sewed those together, and voila - two Christmas pillows!
Those were quilted with a lovely holly single block design, which again, you can’t see on the front. So here’s a quick shot of the back before it was turned. Ooh, ahh, so pretty!
They are backed, envelope-style, in the red main print from Gingerbread & Holly. (Which is now sold out unless you get it in a kit or fat quarter sampler.)
And already on the couch! And yes, my village is already up. We did the lights outside today while my oldest was home from college, and the inside decorations are slowly getting changed over.
Then finally, as before mentioned, I made the scrappy version of Oh What Fun. I had a few squares leftover, so I made a small fabric coaster.
It’s quilted with a single fancy candy cane from an edge-to-edge design. And I forgot to take a picture with the back, but I used a small bit of the Gingerbread & Holly red that was leftover from making the pillow backs. So it’s just scrappy all the way down.
Tune in next week for the scrappy version of Oh What Fun, followed by Christmas stockings, followed by…well, not the t-shirt quilts until after Christmas. So probably more little things, whee!