Shop Hop Projects

I had high (naive) hopes of finishing my shop projects over the Thanksgiving holiday. Ha! I was a little too optimistic. I had bought three potholder kits, four tea towel kits, and the free shop gift was materials and pattern to make a table runner.

I did so much cleaning and rearranging over the weekend, I think I misplaced two of the potholder kits. I’m not complaining—I needed to clean worse than I needed to sew, and they will turn up soon enough. I did get one of them sewn. 

I got the bird cut and pieced over the weekend, and then yesterday, I quilted it and got the binding put on. 

The binding wasn’t cut very straight, but it’s cute in spite of the misaligned plaid. I stitched in the ditch around the bird and the holly leaves. 

I got the trees for the table runner pieced Saturday night while I was watching a movie

and then I put the border on Sunday afternoon.

I’m not sure at this point when I will get it quilted or what I will bind it with. I think I have some red and green plaid that might work for the binding. I also have enough strips left over to make at least one more runner and possibly two more. It’s a cute runner, and I wouldn’t mind making a few more. Especially when the strips are already cut. 

I couldn’t work on the tea towels because the pattern had no pictures and no written instructions, and I couldn’t remember what it looked like. I will go back to the quilt shop and see if they have one I can at least look at.