More Hand Stitching

Here we are in week 2 of Bonnie Hunter's challenge to us to do one hour a day of hand stitching on something, anything, as long as it involves a needle and thread in your hands, in honor of September being National Sewing month, and just in general her tendency to kind of kick us all into gear. Although I didn't do one hour each day this week, I did do enough when I stitched to get in 7.25 hours, so goal met!! Woo Hoo!! Here is the section of the little Christmas table runner I'm working on.

I started this table runner about seven years ago, I think, shortly after I started quilting. I had taken a three or four evening class during which I hand pieced an Ohio star, but I never quilted it--it languishes in my orphan block stash. But it did give me confidence to tackle more quilting. I found a pattern for a Friendship Star block and designed my little table runner.

In pulling together fabric for this project, I quickly discovered that a bit of yellow really sparks up a quilt no matter what other colors are in it. I used a golden shade in this block, you might even call it brown, but it is more yellow than red, so it works.

Thank you, Bonnie, for making me think about my quilting more often, so I will pick it up even if it's just for a few minutes instead leaving so much in the UFO piles. This little runner might even get to grace somebody's table this year!

Check out Bonnie's blog post for this week and scroll to the bottom to check out the links to other people who are meeting this hand quilting challenge. There are some wonderful projects being worked on, and it's fun.