Finishing woven tumbling blocks!

Picture one two and three: Adding borders... pick 4 sides and add them to the octagon only! IF you are doing the table runner... do two opposite sides. Pin each border on the side that is up. Turn it over and pin the other border on the other side..... sew with a 3/8 inch seam. I did! I have the same border on both sides of the piece. The 3rd picture shows the borders sewed and folded out away from the center.

The 4th picture shows the batting being sewed in with a wide zigzag stitch. The batting is butt up against the edge of the seam allowance.










The 5th picture shows the batting sewed in. Then I marked the angle to trim for the last four borders. For the table runner you will cut the ends to match "the end" or "the side" if you put the ends on first. I would put the sides on first.

Maine Jane meeting

Diana is paperpiecing and this is her latest block!
Rosa got some quilting tips from Sue and Jan over the course of the day!!!

Diana waiting to do some piecing on her little baby!!!

A Whole top complete and it is by Rosa!!! Great job and thanks for bringing it!
Taking her last stitches and completing 169 blocks... RVJan.... Congratulations!
Jennifer is here completing her 6th block!!! We had a great day of it!!!
Sue is seated and completing her 2nd block and loving every minute of it!!! And as we all talk at once... Cindi is telling Jan aobut the Sweet Potato Babies?!!! Ask them!!! LOL
Jan's completed 169th block!!!! Hoooray!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow did we have fun. The day went by so fast!!! WE all enjoyed each others company and we all got to meet someone new. AND we talked about next year.... that says it all. I am adding pictures that will give you some bit of how the day went. Thank you Brenda P for the lovely pins that were given out to those who actually did not have one yet!

END of the Snow!!!!

It is really nice to have the snow gone but then there is stuff like mowing the lawn...acres of lawn, planting and tending gardens and still there is quilting. When do I quilt??? Any time I want is the answer to that.... I will let the grass grow.... But then I don't mow!!! Soooo gardening and quilting is my latest stuff. Today the air conditioning and screens need to be put up. HEre are the views out my window space. These photos show what it was like on April 4th of 2008 here. It was very unusual to have this much at this time of year. The top photo is April 20th. That's the mowers admiring the new mower!