Kudos to Carol at Just Let Me Quilt for hosting this wonderful hop!
I've seen SEW MANY creative ideas!
Today I'm sharing my projects. The first ones I'm sharing involve a panel that my SIL brought to me from Hawaii, oh, 7 or 8 years ago, I guess. I could never figure out what to do with it and finally decided to take part of it for a table runner.
Then Carol said she was hosting this hop and I KNEW I was going to get this made!
Here it is: I used half of the panel pieces to make the runner. I wanted to use the bright flowers so it would show up better on my coffee table. My SIL brought me the turtle fabric too.
Then I decided that I might as well use up the rest of the panel pieces and make a narrow wall hanging.
It works quite well on a door. This is at the head of our stairs, and I like to keep something hanging on it. For the borders this time, I used a batik from my stash. It matches perfectly.
I FMQed both items with wavy lines using my Juki QVP sit-down quilting machine.
The last project is a quilt top--I haven't had time to get it quilted, but have worked frantically to get it all in one piece. This is my Alaska quilt.
The top, bottom, and right side (map of SE Alaska) came from Northern Threads in Fairbanks, AK. The 2nd one down and the one on the left came from Changing Tides in Juneau. The Mendenhall glacier one (paper pieced in sections with no instructions on how to put it together--very weird seams, glad I somehow got it together) from Rain Tree Quilting in Juneau. The caribou piece came from Northern Heart Originals in Denali, and the salmon in the middle came from The Quilted Raven in Anchorage. In 2019 we were at each one of these shops. What a great trip (not just for the quilt shops, either)!!!
There is some Alaska batik in here, with maps of the state on it.
It took some figuring to put it all together, but I think it looks pretty good.
I have a bunch more that I bought on that trip, so another quilt may be in order, but this one satisfies the Salt and Sand theme of this hop--and besides, I didn't have time to do more! Hee, hee!
Be sure to visit everyone else today!
