Since my “2014 Christmas in July” patterns will all be table toppers or table runners, I thought I would search Pinterest for some easy table runner tutorials for you. Here’s what I’ve come up with:
Quilted Table Runner Tutorial by Amy Smart (this is a quilt as you go project)
Scrappy 9-Patch Table Runner Tutorial from A Quilting Life
Strip it Table Runners from Bay Window Quilts
Simple Table Runners from Bay Window Quilt Shop
I made this block of the month sampler with some gorgeous fabrics and colors. And what was the most amazing about it was that we spent the summer of 2006 traveling the Pacific northwest in our camper, following the Lewis & Clark trail along the way…but my husband also had speaking engagements in Portland and then Sacramento. So, we loaded up our four kids and two dogs and hit the road! We’d stay in a campsite for three or more days, enjoying everything around us…and then move on down the road to the next campground to do the same. One of the places we stopped had an aquarium that we took our kids to. I took this photo below, thinking of how beautiful the colors were…and then I realized I was working with those exact same colors in this 2006-2007 BOM quilt!
Our goal is to always have something planned for our youngest daughter, during the summer months, so that we never hear the words BORED from her. Yes, that very ugly B word is like nails on a chalkboard to me! So, I have already started searching for summer fabric craft ideas (that need little parental guidance) for our 13-year-old. Here’s what I found via Pinterest:
Nature Weaving Craft from Craftiments.com
Felt Flower Hoop Art from Sugar Bee Crafts
Heart Felt Flower Hairclip – with Lifestyle Crafts from Sugar Bee Crafts
DIY Pencil Cup – Fabric Covered Can Tutorial from acire adventures
Fabric Corkboard Mosaic from Makenzie.com
Summertime Wallet…a Tutorial from Midwestern Girl DIY
Fabric Covered Notebook or Binder from Crazy Little Projects
Fabric Scrap Memory Game from inchmark
This ought to keep her busy for the first week….. 🙂
Please note that all images belong to the websites they are linked to.
This quilt is one that I had the most fun making. I *love* raw-edge applique and I designed and made the templates for my quilt using a pinking blade in my rotary cutter. The instructions allow for other types of applique but most of our local little quilt group made this quilt with their own scrappy fabrics and colors and it was SO. MUCH. FUN. to see how different everyone’s finished out (you can see one here and a few more here)! Not to mention that each block goes together very quickly, if you use raw-edge applique, because you just cut and sew using your own creativity!
Santorini Stars 2010 BOM Quilt designed by BOMquilts.com
I was a nanny to a baby 25-years-ago (eeeek!) and this was the quilt I gave her upon her college graduation. I had intended to give her a completely different quilt when she graduated from high school…but, it didn’t fit with her personality. THIS one spoke her name to me and she absolutely loves it!
Go on, have a little more quilt therapy fun and enjoy making this festive quilt!
I recently went to our local quilt shop to pick out some fabric and had taken DD#2 with me. We were having fun just choosing fabric, with no current plans for making anything with the fabric…but, to have it in my stash for when the quilt therapy bug hit me and I wanted to make something with some of the fabric we found.
One of the fabrics DD#2 picked up was filled with clocks and watches. It was pretty close to the shades of another fabric she had already chosen so I told her it was one or the other – and she chose the first one.
I asked her if she knew who invented the first clock – nope, she had no idea. I explained that a man named John Harrison did so. The owner of the shop laughed and said it probably wasn’t DD#2’s dad…but, DD#2 wasn’t convinced. She said that it probably was her dad as she believed her dad killed the last dinosaur that roamed the earth many years ago. The shop owner looked at me for confirmation and I just laughed and said that the kids really DO think their dad has lived many lives and has the wisdom of those in the dark ages.
If you’d like to read more about the elder John Harrison and his clock adventures, you can do so here.
But, that clock fabric stayed in the back of my mind…thinking it would be a wonderful quilt for my hubby and he would enjoy the significance of the clocks and watches. So, I went to pick up some fabric for a commissioned quilt last week and could not resist the temptation to get two yards of that beautiful clock & watch fabric:
“On Time” designed by Whistler Studios for Windham Fabrics
A pattern hasn’t struck me yet but if I keep thinking about this fabric, I am sure I will come up with a great design worthy of both John Harrison’s!
