APQ 2016 May UFO

The UFO for May was a table runner I had started for my daughter.  She loves these colors!  Her home had rooms painted in these colors.  Going there was like walking into sunshine.  She has since moved from that home but I think when she sees this, it will get used in her new home.  

This is the state of the runner when I moved on to other things.  i don't know why I left it but it was probably because she moved.  When I started checking through my UFOs to see which 12 would go on my list, I was glad to see this one and it went immediately on the list.  The top was finished and the backing was constructed.  I needed to create the binding and then sandwich the pieces and get it quilted and bound.  I am glad it is now finally finished and I will be so happy to present it to her - in her new home!  

So, the Hubs and I had a quiet week planned at our mountain house and I thought it would be a perfect place to work on this project while he was fishing in our lake.  I was up against my May deadline so this would give me uninterupted quilting time.  I packed the pieces, my Bernina with all her feet and attachments, my bag of supplies like scissors, thread, sewing needles, rulers, a seam ripper and my brass stiletto.  I have cutting mats, an iron and ironing board already there.  I was all set - until I went to put everything together and discovered that I could not make a quilt sandwich without any filling - the batting!  Yikes!

The closest quilt shop had recently closed down and the only other one I could think of was a good distance away.  But, there was a Walmart in a near-by town that was about 40 minutes away.  We were on our way to go grocery shopping anyway so I asked the Hubs if we could add a trip to Walmart to our day's travels.  Of course he agreed when he understood my dilemma.  I had no idea if this Walmart even had a fabric department but I kept my fingers crossed the whole way there.  

Well, success!  They carried a nice selection of fabrics as well as everything sewing related - including batting!  

I had a wonderful view from our cabin while sewing, don't you think?

Here are pictures of the finished runner.  I love the backing fabric but I had a special love of dragonflies!  The runner finished at 16" x 46".  A nice size for my daughter's table or breakfast bar.  I wish I could remember the pattern name though, thinking it was an Atkinson design, but not sure.  Hopefully it will come to me and I can give credit where credit is due.  

The project for June is going to be a real challenge to get finished in what is now 25 days.  It is from a class I took on Nickel Quilts, using the book of the same name by Pat Speth and Charlene Thode. The intro to the quilt to be made in class said "It's really fun to make two quilts at the same time, and it's easy when you make combination units because the process also yields enough for the blocks in a second quilt".  We will see how "fun and easy" this turns out to be.  This is what it looks like now.  

Stay tuned and watch for the results.  This should be good........