Cookie, quilt food, table runner/door hanging finished!

When I came upstairs after running my emails Thursday morning (12/1) Cookie was basking in the sun:

I headed to the kitchen to finish up my food for quilting:

filled with turkey stuff I made last night

Michael packed up the car and I headed out to quilting.  The food was phenomenal:

I took along my finally finished table runner and (as I had hoped) people really liked it :~).  Here’s what it was supposed to look like:  

I really liked this when Chris first showed it, but I don’t have much use for a table runner, so I decided I wanted something for the front door…AND if I was hanging it up, I wanted something 3 dimensional.  I bought ribbon that seemed to go with my fabric….but yesterday when I was trying to make my bow…I didn’t think it went at all.  PLUS, I didn’t like that you could see through the ribbon:

Michael and I talked about it and I said I could try to back the ribbon with some fabric, but first I decided to double the ribbon to make it more solid.  It DID make it look more solid, but then the hanging down ties were too short….plus I didn’t like the 2 blues together at all.  

I asked Michael if he thought it would look nice if I could make a bow out of the fabric I used in the quilted part and he said yes.  So then I started thinking about how I could do that.  I swear that many, many years ago I read about making your own wire edged ribbon with your serger, and at that point I had nothing to lose…..so I dragged out my serger, re-threaded it, set it up with a rolled hem, cut and sewed together 3 strips of fabric and got to work.  It took much longer than I anticipated, but by 6 PM I was finally done…and we both love the way it looks:  

I love the green edging on the "ribbon"

So, that’s what I took to quilting today, and several people asked me about applying the wire…maybe I’ll have to do a demo next year.  I got home around 2 PM and I’m trying to go through the quilt tops on the pool table and get a head start on bindings….to that end, I re-found the purple tulip fabric (thank you BG!!!!) and made a binding for that quilt:

Michael came home from golfing in a rush....had time for a quick shower, then belted down 2 pieces of pizza before leaving for rehearsal. Paula came down around 6 PM and we had cougar-tinis and solved all the problems of the world...that was great!  Michael came home with ice cream at 10...which was great since I never had dinner  :~).