Just Call Me Domestic Diva

When I visited Kitty in Washington, she gave me some fun How-To books with quilting projects as well as some random fabrics she didn't think she was going to use. Well, yesterday I was bored. Yep. Justin was off at the U of U game, the kids were playing with friends, the house was clean and chores were done so I decided to try my hand at a cute table runner pattern I found in one of those to-do books.

This is how it went.

Here are some of the squares after I cut the fabric but before I sewed the squares together:And after the squares were all sewn together:After adding three different borders:Then came the batting and binding. Now I didn't think I'd get this far so I was very sad when I was "in the sew-zone" and found I had no batting. :(. SOOOOO, thanks to the amazing sweetness of my friend Holli (who just happened to be on the phone with me when I discovered this and was expressing to her my sadness) took it upon herself to run to the store and get me some. I was able to finish! - Love you Holli!!!

After the entire runner was put together and binded, I decided to try my hand at stippling-closely spaced, random quilting stitches that tend to flatten the quilted area. I'd seen the work of my talented sister-in-law and wanted to try it out. Now, please don't look to closely, but I am pretty proud of the results.And here we have the finished project. Let's just call it my "Domestic Diva Day". It probably wont happen again for awhile. ;)