Quite awhile ago Elizabeth asked if I would make her something with a specific fabric that she had found. Of course it was a fabric that was absolutely right for her – Live Laugh Love with jars of daisies!

I ordered the fabric online and, because I wasn’t sure what I’d be making, I ordered several yards. Once it arrived and I began planning the table runner I was going to make I realized I needed a coordinating fabric – daisies of course ordered from the same company.

I wanted the Live Laugh Love sentiment to show no matter which side of the table you were on so I split it down the middle, added the daisies in the middle and sewed it up with the writing going in opposite directions.

I had some fabric in my stash that seemed the perfect colour to match the jars of daisies but there wasn’t enough of it for backing so I decided it would be my binding. I had some other turquoise fabric that would work, but the binding colour wouldn’t be right when put right up against it. So I added a couple of daisy borders and voila!

I did some very simple straight-line quilting but, following my free-motion class, I did a few circles around the heads of the daisies.

There is lots more fabric left so this particular project has been called Live Laugh Love #1 – there will be more to follow.

I purchased the pattern for this in Houston; I bought a folding tri-frame and made a version of it for Pat for Valentines 2017.

When the Board started talking about a Member Appreciation Night I thought this might be a good choice for a give-away. I didn’t have another frame but I adjusted the pattern to make either a small table topper or wall hanging.

Hopefully whoever ends up with it will consider it a win!

Kathryn (and crew) gave me a couple of bundles of Fat Quarters as a gift several years ago. I know it was a few years ago because I worked on it at one of the Mount Washington retreats and we haven’t done one of those for at least three years! This project was on my Guild UFO list; it had been sitting waiting to be quilted for probably a year at least.

I wanted to do straight line quilting for this; somehow I thought it would be easier than free-motion. I need to put up a big sign in my sewing room to remind me that straight lines, no matter what pattern, are slow and time-consuming. Lesson learned.

I used four different straight-line patterns for the quilting, depending on the size of the centre square of the block. I started with cross-hatching but by the end I was just making straight lines any-which-way across the blocks.

I’ve never sent a quilt through the mail until now. I packed it in a Space Bag (and sucked the air out of it with my vacuum) and I was surprised that it wasn’t very expensive.