On our recent trip to Saskatoon Kathryn pulled out a tablecloth that would fit her table when all the leaves were in place. Then she decided it reminded her of Christmas so she took it off again. I got the idea that maybe I could make her a tablecloth; we ended up deciding to make the tablecloth the size to fit the table as they most often use it – without the leaves.

We went shopping and picked fabric for two reversible tablecloths. The size we needed fit, almost perfectly, the width of the fabric but when I was sandwiching the pieces I didn’t get them lined up exactly as they should have and I was afraid the size would be off a lot. As it turned out it was pretty good size-wise.

I used a 2-colour binding on the project – not something I’d do unless I had to. I followed an online tutorial and made a few notes for the next one that I make.

When the September sewing date with Stacia and Deloise arrived I was barely ready. The kids had just left, everything in my sewing room was a disaster but at least I knew what fabric I wanted to use and where that particular bin was in the pile.

I barely had time to get the top done during our sewing day and it wasn’t until a couple of days later that I sat down to quilt and finish it.

Now that it is done I think it is one of my favourite miniatures. It will hang on the stairwell but I’ll first have to decide which of the other things hanging there need to come down.

I’m not sure when I started this quilt – the earliest photo I have of it was from April 2018 and the top was together by then. I know it was a project that my Thursday sewing group did together; not a big surprise that I’m the last to finish. Gail found the pattern online and shared it with us.

I have no idea why I had a fat quarter bundle of greens but this quilt used the majority of the fabric. I would have liked to have had enough left for the binding but fortunately I had other green fabrics so no need to go shopping.

The arrangement of the half-square triangles was tricky but with help from Gail and Jessie I think I got it right.

The quilting was very quick – just a series of straight lines. I am getting confident enough in quilting lines that I used both a white and a green thread on this.

This pattern is one that I fully intended to start on Diane’s birthday (January 30th) but for some reason I just couldn’t settle down to doing it. When I mentioned to Christy that I was going to make one she said she’d like one too. The project came up on my reminder list in March but, again, I put it off. With Christy visiting at the end of the month I thought I had better get at it.

The pattern was from the internet and there weren’t a lot of details on how to do it but the instructions for the measurements were good. They could have been a bit smaller in length from back to front but my test pattern fit well enough that I decided not to change it.

I pulled several fat quarters from my jungle collection that was purchased to make Elizabeth’s eel table topper. I couldn’t help but think of the Tiger King as I was putting this together. There are three different tiger prints in this. If I’d been a bit more careful with thread colour this could have been reversible.

I made very few changes for the cover I made for Christy; I just changed the way I did a few of the things since I knew how it was supposed to go together.