2nd Pay it Forward Gift

Here's my second Pay it Forward gift. This one went to Trish.

It's a table runner made with Delilah by Tanya Whelan. The block pattern is the Quatrefoil. And if you want to make a table runner like this one, here's the pattern for that!

Sorry the pictures aren't that great! This one was very hard to get a good picture of for some reason!

I'll post pics of the 3rd Pay it forward in a couple weeks. I still have to mail it and I don't want to ruin the surprise! ;)

On another note, we leave for our month long camping trip throughout New England on Sunday! I'm super excited! Let the summer begin!!

Teacher's Gift

My eldest daughter is in 2nd grade. I decided to make her teacher a Christmas gift this year after polling some of my teacher friends. They all said it would be nice to receive a home made gift, so I made a Christmas table runner for her. 

 This pattern was one that I won on Rachel of p.s. i quilt's blog a couple years ago. I finally got around to making one.

Another COW party

Last night was our "Officer's Spouses Club" C.O.W. (Commanding Officer's Wife) party. So we got to shower our new COW with lots of cow gifts. I made another table runner. I also gave her a cute cow mug and a cow spoon rest. (forgot pictures of those)

My friend, She's a COW...

What? You think it's mean to call my friend a COW. I don't. She doesn't. It's actually a great honor in our community. See, being called a COW means that you are a Commanding Officer's Wife! And that's exactly what she is now! VAW 112 (not my husband's squadron, but another here on Point Mugu) had their Change of Command today and my friend Jen is now the "Official" COW of Vaw 112! 

So this morning while they were having their Change of Command ceremony, a bunch of wives from our squadron (VAW 113) went and decorated her house "cow" themed.

Tonight is her Change of Command party at their house and I am giving her this:

a "cow" themed table runner....

I had made the top and after the fact found this on Etsy. So I did the applique on the back because when I laid it out to do it on the front, with the cow print fabric, you couldn't really see the cows. So the back will have to do! And...with my inexperience of doing applique and using fusible web, of course, it's reversed! I never know which side to trace on etc.! Didn't really matter for this so it still turned out ok.

Our Change of Command is on the 15th so you may just see a repeat next week! Have a great weekend!

Halloween Goodies...

 Since I now have 2 kiddos that will be "Trick-or-Treating" this year, I needed to make another Trick-or-Treat bag. I still had some left over jelly roll strips from this bag, so I made another one.

 Then, while I had all my Halloween fabric out, I figured I'd make a couple table runners with the scraps. My mom's birthday was yesterday so I made one for her. The other one is for my grandmother that lives next door to her. I figured my mom could pick the one she likes and then give the other one to my grandma. Now I just need to make one for myself!