Harvest Hills

I absolutely HEART Sandy Gervais!  I have  hoarded collected many of her fall fabric  lines—Fall Back in Time, Pumpkins Gone Wild, and Awesome--and Grand Finale is no exception.  I bought two charm packs this past summer, and when I found out I’d be hosting Thanksgiving this year, got them out and got busy!

With three little ones at every meal, tablecloths are definitely out.  I wanted to make something a little fancier and more substantial than a tablerunner, so I came up with the idea of making a largish table topper that could be used for the Thanksgiving meal.  In fact, I added Insul-Bright to the batting to make it heat resistant, so many of the fixins can be served straight to the table.

After making the quilt sandwich, I asked my husband if I should do straight line or squiggle quilting.  He opted for squiggles.  I am kind of glad he did.  Sometimes I don’t have the self-control patience to keep my lines evenly spaced and neat.  Now that my squiggles are getting better, I prefer free motion quilting to straight lines.  I used green thread and love how it really “pops” against the purple. 

The Insul-Bright makes the quilt sandwich a tad thicker than  just the Warm & White, so I increased my binding from 2.5 inches to 2.75 inches.  That little increase seemed to work perfectly for machine binding.  All in all, this tabletopper required almost 2 charm packs, 1 yard for backing, and 1/4 yard for binding. 

Fall Tablerunners

 

I’ve made quite a few tablerunners lately either as gifts or for swaps.  I bought a charm pack last year and have managed to make 4 tablerunners out of it.  I can’t remember the name of the line, but it’s a Moda fabric by Sandy Gervais.

It’s backed by a brown polka dot and bound by a fantastic modern dot fabric and machine attached.  I am loving the zig zag stitch!

I made another identical runner and backed it with a great large scale fabric that I might like even better than the actual top and bound with my favorite zig zag fabric.

And here’s a view of the back—it could be reversible.

The backing was a great find at Joanns.  I only paid $1.80 a yard for it during one of their 1/2 off red tag fabric sales.  I love it!

   

I’m working on another tablerunner with the latest fall line by Sandy Gervais (of course!) called Finale.

I can’t wait to get this one done.  Hopefully in time for Halloween!

Glenna at Hollyhock Quilts

I want to say a big THANK YOU to Glenna at Hollyhock Quilts (http://hollyhockquiltsblog.blogspot.com/). I found out yesterday that I was the final winner in her weeklong giveaway that culminated in a collection of Moda charm packs and a layer cake. My husband ran into the kitchen after I found out I won...see, I'm 8 months pregnant and he thought it was the big moment! Winning fabric is almost exciting as going into labor:)

Here is a rundown of the prizes:

A Kansas Winter layer cake by Kansas Trouble Girls and...four Moda Sandy Gervais charm packs!!!!!!!!!!


The awesome thing is that I have a couple yards and a panel that are part of the Fall Back in Time collection so stay tuned to see what I make from that!

Thanks again, Glenna, and check out her shops on Ebay and Etsy for great reproduction fabrics. She is my favorite fabric designer (even though she is taking a break from that right now) and designs great feedsack reproductions that I love...especially the bee fabrics!