Sunday, May 13, 2012

For my Mom

I'm notoriously bad at holiday gift giving.  I'm always thrilled to give an impromptu gift because I saw something that was perfect but coming up with something fabulous on an arbitrary deadline is beyond me.  I was planning to give my Mom this table runner for her birthday but didn't get it finished in time.  I kept making more things that coordinated and luckily for me by the time Mother's Day rolled around I had a complete set.  I even got it in the mail in time that I could show you this today without spoiling the surprise: )

Everything was made with scraps from my Keeping it Together watercolor quilt.  Didn't even make a dent in the pile!  My parents live in Key Largo so I wanted something tropical.  The table runner combines crazy 9 patch blocks and curved piecing.  I used Essex linen for the sand with some big stitch quilting along the edges.  My favorite part is how the binding matches up with the sand and water.  It was a total pain to sew that way but I love the result!

The coasters are just more leftover crazy 9 patch blocks with linen on the back.

I was really going crazy with these scraps so I had to make a set of matching napkins also.  In case you missed it, here's the tutorial for these wavy applique napkins.

Happy Mother's Day, Mommy!

4 comments:

  1. Oooh, so perfect for Key Largo (not that I have ever been but I picture these there :)
    I hope you had a happy mother's day!

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  2. Beautiful Alice! Your mom will be really touched.

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  3. They look great. I'm sure she loved them

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  4. Your mom is VERY lucky! This is awesome-- I loved the curved edge. It looks difficult-- but beautiful!

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