Hexie Friday update

I've managed to get a couple of triangles sewn together this week and another one almost finished.

And I also finished the last item that I'll donate for our Guild Auction to be held the first of August October.  I'm rather amazed that I'm ahead of schedule.
Here's the Halloween set:

Today I'll be cutting out the pieces for one more Christmas snuggle quilt.  

And I'm a day late but I'm still going to link over on Quilting Readers Garden for Hexie Friday.  

I hope you're having a great day. Glad you stopped by.....Linda

If It's Monday.....

....then that means it's time to show you what's on my design wall.
 
There was just something about that Halloween table runner that was bothering me all this time.  I posted about it here.
After I had added the triangles on to the end of the runner I left it on my wall just to be able to keep looking at it.  Maybe it would tell me what was wrong!
Something.  Just wasn't right.

Sure enough yesterday I finally realized what it was.
It's those pointy triangles!!  I just don't like them!  At least not on this set.
So off they came and rectangles are on in their place.
Now I'm happy!  heehee

What the heck is wrong with my photography skills lately????

That left placemat doesn't look like that in real life!  

Oh well..... Good thing I don't get paid to take pictures.

Let's head over to Judy's Design Wall Monday to see what others have been working on.  

I hope you're having a great day. Glad you stopped by.....Linda

Monday and I'm back.

   Hi everyone.  I'm back.
I know!  I know!   I've been away from my blog for way too long.
But I've had a lot going on around here and we've been away celebrating.   I'll post about all that later.  And yes I will show you my new floor.  ;o)

But right now it's still Monday and for the first time in all these last weeks I finally have something new to share on my design wall.  Of course I'll be linking over on Judy's Design Wall.  One of my favorite places to visit.

Remember I told you that our guild is having our auction this fall and we are each  asked to donate at least three items.   I have two made already and have been mulling around several different ideas trying to settle on just one more.
Well.... Saturday rolled around and all of a sudden I realized the theme I wanted to use.
Several months ago I had purchased a Halloween Layer Cake from the Fat Quarter Shop along with three matching 1 yd cuts of fabric (orange with black bats, blue with black flying witches and a border print)

  

I pulled them all off the shelf and proceeded to cut the 10" squares into fourths and then sashed them with a black 1½" strip.
I sewed a few of those 5" sashed blocks together and ended up with a small table runner.  It just needed something more so I cut a 9" square in half diagonally and added them to the ends to finish it.  
For the placemats I decided to cut some of the 5" blocks in half and sewed seven together to give me the width I wanted and bordered them with black and added the orange bat fabric.
 TaDa..... Here I go.....
#3 auction item ..... Small table runner (12"x41"  still needs trimmed) and two placemats (13"x19").  I'll be binding them all in black once I get the quilting finished.  

AND......I still have 16 of the 5" sashed blocks left to make a nice sized table topper that would fit my dining table nicely.   I plan on using the border print to finish it and I'll use the blue witches as the backing for the placemats & runner.  

That should take care of all the Halloween fabric.  

 
I hope you're having a great day. Glad you stopped by.....Linda