
In November, Carla from Creatin’ in the Sticks announced the Sew It – Show It Challenge: Shades of Blue. How could I resist? Blue is my absolute favourite colour!!
I have a LOT of blue flying geese and half-square triangles that I have made as a leader and ender project. I put them together to make these 3 table toppers. (All different sizes since my table tops are different sizes!) They use all sorts of Island Batik fabrics from my Island Batik scraps. That means that they were left-overs from some projects and pieces from stash-builder rolls.
Hobbs batting (80/20) is in the middle and they are Free-motion quilted with Aurifil #2600 (Dove Grey).
I taught a binding class to a wonderful group of ladies this week and thought these 3 little table toppers would be perfect for demonstrating my easy method of machine binding!



Here’s a closeup of 2 different stitches that can be used for securing the binding down.


Here’s the list of all the “Shades of Blue” Blog Hoppers. They all have awesome “blue” projects and it’s well worth visiting each and every one of them!
Monday, January 23rd
- Creatin’ in the Sticks
- Desertsky Quilting
- Selina Quilts
- Just Because Quilts
- Scrapdash
- The Joyful Quilter
Tuesday, January 24th
- MooseStashQuilting
- Kathleen McMusing
- Den syende himmel
- Karrin’s Crazy World
- Artes de Paula Louceiro
- Days Filled With Joy
- Beaquilter
Wednesday, January 25th
- Just Let Me Quilt
- Inflorescence
- crazy’boutquilts
- Kathy’s Kwilts and More
- Quilted Delights
- Quilt Schmilt
- VroomansQuilts
Thursday, January 26th
- Ms P Designs USA
- Lianne Makes Stuff
- Quilting Gail
- Elizabeth Coughlin Designs
- Words & Stitches
- Just Sew Quilter
One who sleeps under a quilt is covered by LOVE!
Happy Quilting!
Gail
Linking to:
- Midweek Makers @ QuiltFabrication
- Wednesday Wait Loss @ Inquiring Quilter
- TGIFF @ Gone Stitchin’
- Happy Needle and Thread @ My Quilt Infatuation
- Andrée / Free Motion Mavericks @ Quilting & Learning – What a combo!
- Put your Foot Down @ For the Love of Geese
- Can I get a Whoop Whoop? @ Confessions of a Fabric Addict
- Finished or Not Friday @ Alycia Quilts
- Sherry @ Powered by Quilting
- Michelle @ From Bolt to Beauty
- Off the Wall Friday @ Creations – Quilts, Art, Whatever
- Peacock Party @ Wendy’s Quilts and More
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Those are fun ones!! and I love blue!!!
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Thanks, Alycia! I love blue, too!!!
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Very pretty table runners, Gail! All of those blues are very pretty. I love the purples and teals thrown in also. What is that background fabric? It’s gorgeous! I’ve tried the wavy line on a small project to see how it went, which I was pleased with! Binding by machine is definitely quicker than by hand!
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Thanks, Brenda. The background fabric is a chevron that I bought at a store and promptly forgot to put the colour name with the fabric. I fell in love with it when I saw it and bought several meters! 🙂
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Just gorgeous! Love the quilting as well 🙂 xx
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Thanks, Joy! I tried to keep it simple!
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lovely quilts and fun ways to do the binding. I had trouble loading your website, it wasn’t showing your pictures, I refreshed several times before it worked (and I have FAST internet) so don’t know if it’s on your end, even your top banner took a while to load.
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Hi Bea,
That’s weird … technology can be frustrating at times!
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Love those pretty blue batiks! They sure sewed up into some gorgeous table runners. Thanks for sharing on my weekly show and tell, Wednesday Wait Loss.
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Thanks, Jennifer!
And congratulations on the anniversary of Wednesday Wait Loss! 🙂
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Awesome table toppers for the Challenge, Gail!!
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Thank you!
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Hi Gail, those are great table toppers and I’m sure that they were perfect for your class. I’ve never used decorative stitching for my binding – I’ll have to keep that in mind. BTW,
I did it! I joined the SAHRR – and finished my round 1. Now to post it! Have a great weekend and thanks for linking up to Free Motion Mavericks.
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Yay, Andrée! I’m so happy to hear you joined the SAHRR!! Thank you for the compliments on the table toppers! And thank you for hosting Free Motion Mavericks! 🙂
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Two very nice quilts. Those geese are perfect.
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Thanks, Danice! I believe the geese were cut with the Accuquilt, so that helps with perfection. (Although, that’s my theory, not a fact!)
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I like all of them, but FG are one of my favorite patterns to do. Beautiful job of quilting and binding. How nice to bring your own work to demonstrate to the class how to do something.
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Thanks, Susan. I usually like to demonstrate on my own work. That way when the participants do it, it’s totally their own!
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Wonderful blue runners and yes, perfect for that binding class. I love that you have similar but different samples…so you can get a feel for what you like.
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Thanks, Kathleen! I did 2 of the samples in class so they could see it in “real life.” One participant was having trouble with her machine and she chose one of the patterns and sewed her’s on my machine! Such fun!
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I love the colors and how the textures appear after they are quilted…kind of vintage looking. You did a lovely job on these and the binding stitches are so cute!
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Thank you very much!
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Beautiful table runners, and great use of scraps. Thanks so much for sharing!
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Thanks, Karrin!
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Pretty stitches to secure the binding.
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Thank you very much!
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You have some fun blue scraps. The table toppers all turned out beautifully. I never considered using decorative stitches to finish a binding, Those create a very nice finish.
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Thanks, Kate! I hope you give it a try one day!
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What a great way to use up those blues! I’ve never tried using stitches like that on a binding, but I might have to, it’s so pretty!
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Oh Wendy … our machines have so many different stitches to use! We might as well use them!! I look forward to seeing what you do! 🙂
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Very cute table toppers. What a great way to use leaders and enders.
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Thanks, Lj. I did have a different plan, but it didn’t work! So this was my way of using it!
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Great table toppers! I like seeing your binding technique since I always do machine binding too. Normally I topstitch it with a blanket stitch or a straight stitch, but I have used some other decorative stitches too. The finished product looks great that way. Thanks for sharing!
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Thanks, Carol! Most machines have a lot of different decorative stitches to use for binding! It’s fun trying different ones out! 🙂
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Oh, wow Gail – these are all wonderful and I love your binding stitches. Great inspiration for sure.
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Thanks, Carla!
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Thanks for sharing your projects Gail, and especially the pictures showing your quilting. I love to get ideas for projects from someone who has already been down the road.
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Thanks, Lynn! There’s always lots of people that have been down different roads! That’s what makes it so interesting and fun! 🙂
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I love flying geese! What a fun way to attach binding. I am going to have to give that a try!
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Thanks, Joan! Let me know how your binding works out!
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Beautiful projects and I love the way you did the binding!
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Thanks, Elizabeth! Using different stitches is more forgiving than a straight line! 🙂
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