Ehhh... tablerunner???

A few years ago a friend of mine set a rule that I had to finish one of my unfinished projects whenever I started a new. Well, I haven't been really good keeping this up, but figured I'd do a small finish since I started the Decadent Victorian table topper. If you by chance have been reading my list of WISPs you might have seen the note of a "Pinwheel tablerunner". How long this has been laying around I'm not really sure... somewhere between 3 and 6 years.

It was only a pile of HST units and a 30cm piece of fabric in my project bag, but the pinwheels came together pretty smoothly, and the borders were attached without problem:



Then I got to thinking... This is a size that doesn't fit any of my tables... What will I do with it once it's done? Ok, I'll quilt it and worry about that another time... The important thing is that I'll finish it! But once quilted I was still feeling a bit apprehencive about the size... what to do? what to do? Ah-ha!!:



Cute, cute, cute!! And best of all: FINISHED!!!! It is very simple with two medium size pockets inside, and just a strap and a button to keep it closed. I got to use one of the many buttons I walked away with after last week's house clearing:



And on the stash busting front, this is all that's left of the contents of the project bag, and will go into the 2" strips and squares box:

Hugs and stitches from Anne Ida

On a roll...?

After a long time of no sewing it looks like I'm on a bit of a roll ;-) A little while back I had a request for a tote bag, and since a planned game night yesterday was canceled I found myself in the company of Bernie. I got all the pieces cut, the front pieced and quilted last night, and starting sewing just after breakfast today the bag itself has just been put together:

Pretty pleased with it :-) Hope the person who will receive it will be pleased, too!

More quilty news is that I have finally gotten my Carolina Christmas quilt basted! A bit of a nightmare job:

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This is one heavy quilt due to all those seams, and will probably take me a long time to quilt - need to be diciplined and do it in small dosages ;-)

Happy quilty weekend!

Hugs and stitches from
Anne Ida