Rock City batik projects

This week I'm guest blogging over at QUILTsocial. The fabric line is called Rock City by Banyan Batiks and is coming to quilt stores this month. I think the colours lend themselves to a modern, holiday feeling.

When I started the projects there was no snow, so the photos are a bit fallish. The little pumpkin in the photo we actually grew - our first one!

You can find the first post to make your own checkerboard star cushion cover here.

For my second project I reduced the size of the checkerboard star block and changed the construction method. I really love the hues of the fabrics in this project - the grey star point fabric almost looks green. 

The first post for this checkerboard star table runner project is here.

The fun and challenging part of creating projects with the batiks is to make something that helps feature the fabric's own designs. I used large strips of the fabrics on the reverse side of the runner to show off the fabrics.

The second post for the reverse side of the runner can be found here.

There is one more post tomorrow; I squeezed in one more project and even though it was quick, I had snow outside by the time I was done!

Be sure to keep checking the QUILTsocial blog because they feature a variety of guest bloggers and host giveaways for fabric - like this one ;)

Enjoy!

Sarah V.

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PFAFF machine review and tutorial: quilted table runner

Last week was my final week with this great PFAFF machine, their new Performance 5.2. It was soooo fun to quilt with this machine!

You can check out my review of the Performance 5.2 at QUILTsocial.com

For my last week of blogging with the Performance 5.2 I designed this patchwork table runner. It would make a great gift for the upcoming holidays!

The first post with fabric requirements is here.

Make the utensil handles and the churn dash platter in the second post.

The third post goes through construction of the top of the fork and the spoon.

The fourth post features a mini tutorial within a tutorial on using the no-waste, fast flying geese method to get those tiny geese! I'm so happy with my points :) 

I made the runner reversible using an allover print. I chose a binding fabric that would look good with both sides of the runner. The quilting is mostly echo quilting around the utensils. You can read about it more in this post.



I hope you enjoy the tutorial! Please feel free to leave comments on the posts over at QUILTsocial - and share them too!


With Joy,
Sarah V.


p.s. I made my debut on QUILTsocial last fall with my Curling Rocks Runner!

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