The Falling Leaves

 I sewed this Leaves table runner last year, but realized I had not posted these photos. I will be getting this table runner out to display on my coffee table since it is now becoming Autumn. These leaves were all sewn from fat quarters that have been in my house for a few years.

The backing is left over from a much larger quilt. I thought that it went well with the colors of the leaves. I quilted this in a slight wave using the edge of my walking foot. It's a fun way to get a smaller quilt completed. 

The label is indicating 2024. That's how long it takes me to finish blog posts.

Effervescence Quilt Along - finished quilt top

I participated in Yvonne's Effervescence Quilt Along this year. The Quilt Along started in January and just finished up now in July.  

I enjoyed this Quilt Along very much. The blocks were pieced at a slow pace throughout the weeks. I appreciated this because I didn't have to rush. 

Another great thing about this Quilt Along is that I was able to use all fabrics from my stash of batiks. For some reason years ago, I received monthly fat quarters of batiks. However, they have been left forgotten about in a box.  Some of the pieces for a few blocks required more than a fat quarter. So I just picked a couple of fat quarters that were kind of similar in color to use for those pieces. 

I kind of like the dark colors on this. The Effervescence is a very unique pattern. I will be piecing the backing out of more fat quarters in my batik stash and then get to the quilting soon.

I am linking my quilt top to Effervescence QAL Final Linkup.

Dust Off a Book Blog Hop - Sewing Mat

 I decided to join in with Bea for the Dust Off a Quilt Book Blog Hop. I'll admit, I have purchased too many quilt books through the years. 

I finally did give some of my old books to a church located by my office. The church gives everything away to area residents. The quilt books that I gave away were mainly ones that created quilt blocks using templates. I have never enjoyed sewing with templates. There are many more time-efficient techniques than templates to create quilt blocks.  Here is the book that I decided to sew my project from:

Quilt Petite by Sedef Imer .This book is not really, really, old - the copyright is 2016.  This book contains quite a few small quilts, such as doll quilts and place mats. But I have never sewed anything from it.  So I decided to sew this Sewing Machine Mat.

The pieced section of the mat is set on point, which I do like. I had a charm pack of this Leila Boutique Farmer's Daughter fabric, plus I had some fat quarters for the bigger sections.

This is my finished Sewing Mat, along with a Thread Catcher. I had some black and white striped fabric that I cut on the bias for the binding.

The book said to sew a snap to the left pocket to hold the thread catcher. I used this type of a magnetic snap because that's what I had on hand.

 This is how I covered the back of this magnetic snap. Of course, I was concerned about putting my hand in and out of the pocket and getting scraped up. So I sewed 3 small rectangles together and added this heart label, just because I had it. I did hand stitch it down because it was too hard to put through my machine. 

This is the inside of the thread catcher, also, showing the back of the snap. I did not want to leave it this way, it is very sharp.

So I made another little patch and added this "sweet" label.

I just used some leftover low-volume prints for the back and pieced them together. I chose this "Sewing Heals the Soul label. I thought it fit since I made the Sewing Mat. 

Here is my new Pfaff sitting on my new finished Sewing Mat. I am able to have my cutting mat on my table and still have this sewing mat fit in my workspace. It will look nice once everything is cleared off, but, in reality, that does not happen often.  I am glad I finally sewed something from this book. Also, I'm glad I was able to use this fabric because it has been sitting in a basket for quite a while.   

Thank you Bea for Hosting this fun Blog Hop. Please visit everyone else that is participating in this Blog Hop.  They have some awesome quilt projects to show you. 

March 3

Karrin’s Crazy World

Textile Ranger

March 4

Alyciaquilts

KathleenMcMusing

March 5

MooseStashQuilting

WithStringsAttached

March 6

NettieSews

Beaquilter

Next Round #4 for Stay at Home Round Robin

 The SAHRR 4th Round is held at Wendy from Pieceful Thoughts. I have done "slices" before and I did borrow my block from Happy Quilting Melissa's Fast & Fun Lap Quilts Book. I am kind of lazy when it comes to figuring out my own blocks. I knew that she had a "sliced block" in this book because I have sewn each of the blocks in this book for a Quilt Along.

Here is my block that has 4 sliced sections. 

Here are the blocks that I have sewn so far from the prompts. I honestly don't know how to put this all together. I guess I'll figure something out for a table topper. I do need to add another block beside the green 6 1/2" block.

Who knows? I may decide later on how to arrange this. Everyone's SAHRR Quilt tops are really coming together nicely. It is fun to play along.