Sunshine on Grey Day

This is a pattern taken from Fons and Porter magazine. I liked it graphic shape not to mention the colors that they used.  Very pretty.  When I saw it, I thought of some yellow and grey prints that I had stored up waiting for just the right project.

So out they came, and were pressed within an inch of their lives and cut into little pieces and then sew and pressed again to make the runner. 
This runner reminds me of my friend Joanne who loves the color yellow. Since daffodils are coming out at home this runner will look lovely beside a vase of the yellow flowers. Since I am not home, I can't put a nice vase of daff's by the runner to show it off for you.

As usual Arlene did the quilting on this, using a light grey thread and leaf and vine pattern. I just love this pattern and ask for it a lot on runners because it suits many of them so nicely.

Blue Goose

Fons and Porter in their Jan issue (I think) had a quilt that was made of scraps of blue and white fabric.  Since I need to whittle down the scraps I decided to make this quilt and use up some of my blue scraps.

I used a simple tutorial on fast flying geese and whipped them up in an evening reacquainting myself with Harry Potter.  Those went pretty fast.

Even the strip pieces went together quickly as well if not more of a challenge due to the length and wanting to use up big hunks of white fabric. But I prevailed over the challenges and the top was made.

It makes me wonder if I have enough red and black scraps to make another version in this color way!