Right Down to the Wire!

Well, Easter Sunday found me with my roast chicken and sides percolating happily in the oven whilst I stitched down the facing on my table topper! 

I bet y'all have been in that situation before, haven't you? Where you feel like you absolutely must finish it, and then you hop up and down happily when it's done? (Grin)

Well, here it is! 

It would have been pretty on a green tablecloth, but I just rolled with what I had. You can see the quilting pretty well here - nothing fancy like Amanda did, just outline stitching for the most part. If you would like to see some wonderful stitching on one, check out this link and see what she did to quilt hers (it's gorgeous!).

I wanted an outdoor picture, so here is one:

And just to prove that I actually DID finish it (oh, you doubter, you!) here is a picture showing the back with the facing and my label:

I'm linking up today with the party over at Amy's One Thing, One Week Challenge -- what a motivator that has been for me, on several projects! 

I have some more of those lovely pieced charms from the Flora pack, and the gears are turning on another project for them . . . in the meantime, won't you leave me a comment and tell me about a time that one of your projects went "right down to the wire"? 

Love,

Hoppin' Down the Bunny Trail . . .

You may remember my post about sewing along with Amanda Murphy on the Easter table topper. You can see the different steps to constructing this cute project here, here, and here. 

This has been really fun -- first of all, I'm working with Flora, by Lauren and Jessi Jung, for Moda -- what's not to love? Gorgeous, sumptuous colors, evocative of Old World fabrics . . .

(All of these images are from our fabulous sponsor, the Fat Quarter Shop.)

Ahem. 

'Scuse me while I mop up my keyboard. I tend to drool when looking at these fabrics, and I have some right here close by. (Grin)

I have cut my wedges from the Curio fabric, and I showed you the pieced charms that I cut the eggs from; now it's time to show you some of the wedges with the eggs applied!

I think they're so cute! Now, I don't have a machine with all of the bells and whistles that Amanda has, but there are some decorative stitches on my lil' Brother (that I love with all my heart) and this was a good opportunity to try them out!  See what you think of these --- and please be kind, OK? I did try these when I first received the machine from my loving sister, but since then, not as much.  So, some of them surprised me, and the needle went in the opposite direction of where I expected!

 There are a few "skips" in this one, but overall, it's a keeper!

I like how this one turned out!

This fabric has leaves on it, and the stitch makes leaves, too!

Kinda hard to see this one, but since it is subtle, it lets that fabric shine!

Well, there are twelve more wedges to make, on this bottom section of the table topper . . . then it's off to my stash to choose fabrics for the petals to go on top!

Happy sewing, everyone!

I'm linking up with the party over at the Shady Porch today! Check out all the fun links over there!

Love,

A little eye candy . . .

Blog Hop Party-goers can click here to go to our giveaway post! 

Hi Lilypadquilters!

I thought I would show you some sweet pictures today, and let you take a guess at what I'm doing.

I have a charm pack of luscious Flora, by Lauren and Jesse Jung for Moda, and I'm slicing and dicing. I choose two charms that have a pretty good level of contrast, and swap pieces, like so:

Here are some samples of what I achieve:

Aren't they gorgeous?

Betcha can't guess what I'm gonna do with them!!

Hmmm, I guess I'll give you a hint. Check out this post on Amanda Murphy's blog. See what she's making? Well, I'm sewing along with her!  And I'm gonna have enough of these to make two! Yay!

Have fun sewing today!

Love,