My Sewful Retirement

Fall Has Arrived

Happy Monday!

Fall has finally arrived in our area of Florida.  It was wonderful to wake up and feel chill in the air. I do miss having the piles of leaves we had in our yard in Maryland, but I don’t miss raking them!

Hubby had to have minor surgery on Friday so I got to spend the entire weekend sewing 🙂 while he slept.

My family are big football fans especially Big Ten College Football. I finished a baby quilt for friends that are both Purdue graduates.

Quilt Measures 38 x 38.  I used  10 inch squares from my Simply Colorful – Yellow layer cake by V&Co for Moda. Some of the blocks are rectangles some squares to match the wonky star in the center. I used one of the prints from the Modern Background – Ink line by Zen Chic for the star and binding. The print of the black fabric has math calculations all over which I thought was perfect since the dad is an engineer.  I added a little embroidery “You Are My Sunshine” to one of the blocks.  I’m happy with the results.

 

 

 

 

My youngest son graduated from University of Michigan and also played football for them- so I am a BIG BIG fan. I’m sure I’ve mentioned that I love the maple leaf quilt block, I made a table runner in Blue and Maize — I hope my son likes it.

I used the QAYG technique where you create the block traditionally and quilt each block individually before joining. Below are the individual blocks.

 

The finished table runner measures 14 x 68.

I quilted with straight lines alternating the direction on each block.

 

I stitched in the ditch with mono-filament thread on top and matching navy thread in the bobbin to attach the backing.

 

My favorite block 🙂

 

Of course I made placemats and coasters to match!

 

Hope you had a great weekend also!

Until next time…