Quilting for a Holiday Runner

[wendy w.]

I'd give you 10

[wendy w.]

Ditto what everybody else said. Looks terrific to me !

[Renata L.]

Thank you, thank you... I am plowing through the swirls on the blue border, taking a break everytime I'm about to round a corner and at the halfway point I went for a walk. The highest temperature today here was 68 degrees (is this December?) so the walk was really nice.

Limbania, Spanish for Italian sounds good to me. And Mexican food, homecooked Mexican food? YES! By the way, do you have a nice recipe for Christmas tamales? It might be a Mexican-American tradition, but I've had them once, soooo goooood, and would love to make them myself.

[Norma H.]

Renata, I second all the others. You are much better than you think and practicing is the only way to get to enjoy free motion quilting

[Renata L.]

The blue holiday runner is finished--minus handstitching the binding which I'll work on this evening and then I'll post it. In the meantime, I cut out and started piecing the second runner. It's the same as the first but in different colors. As you've all said, practice, practice and more practice, so, since these are all gifts for people who don't know each other, I'm making the same runner (piecing will go faster) and then I get my chance to do more loops and swirls! Thank you so much for all your support! It's really hard to have been detail-oriented all of my working life and now learning to let go with this FMQ stuff--I keep looking for the perfect stitches without the BSR (it's my stubborn streak, I guess...) and have a hard time not thinking about how I'm just ruining a nicely pieced quilt with ugly stitches... ops: But, I have to admit, I was smiling by the time I got to the swirls in the blue border and just went, "oh, well..." when I crossed lines a couple of times...

[E.M. T.]

I knew ya could do it !!

[Renata L.]

Thought I'd post the finished holiday runner number 1 (still needs a few threads to be pulled to the back and finish the binding which is almost done):



Here is the back (a tribute to Rosemary who inspired me to be different on the back of the quilt):



And here is the second quilt that I pieced the other day and will get ready for quilting today. It is the same as the blue one with minor modifications:

[wendy w.]

and plenty of time to make another couple for Christmas.
Love the more traditional colour one are you keeping it or is it a gift as well.

[Renata L.]

Alas, Wendy... I am keeping none! They are all gifts and I have a few more that I am piecing as we speak.

[wendy w.]

You're like an elf beavering away

[wendy w.]

Alas, Wendy... I am keeping none! They are all gifts and I have a few more that I am piecing as we speak.

I'm impressed - typing & sewing at the same time 8)

[Nancy R.]

Beautiful quilts -- both quilts, both sides! I need to find some more elf time. Time is starting to get short!

Nancy

[Rita C.]

They are both lovely Renata. And the back is lovely too. Make a few more and you will be zipping along with the fmq.

[Lorraine R.]

Keep posting photos Renata, they are both beautiful. How lucky the family and/or friends are that will be receiving these gifts of love. A gift from your heart and hands will be treasured for years to come.
Lori

[Renata L.]

Thank you, you all make me want to do more! I'll be at a two-day class sponsored by Bernina USA with Elva Mungai and Elaine Cibelli on Bernina's V6 software starting tomorrow so I guess I won't get much more done until Sunday, but I have already picked out the fabrics for two more table runners :P and hope I don't run out of steam! :lol: