Tokens of Friendship and Love

I'm stitching this Ellen Chester design on 32 count "Maple Sugar" from Lakeside using Gloriana Silk "Midnight" Princess Pearle. Unfortunately, one twist of 20 yeards was not enough to finish and now I'm having some trouble finding more. I have rolled up and begun a new sampler using Crescent's Belle Soie "Blue Lagoon". Both are beautiful shades of deep, dark blue.

Cathedral Windows Table Runner

Year ago I found the instruction for easy Cathedral Windows in an Austrailian quilting magazine. And they really are easy. It's a bit like oragami with the sewing machine. While I started enthusiastically, I did get tired of it and moved on to other things. Recently I pulled it out of the closet and decided to finish it up. Above is what the windows look like when they've been hand stitched. I used a Benartex white on white for the base (you sew that first on the machine) and reproduction Depression prints for the windows (you sew those by hand).

When you have the base all sewn together, it looks like the right side here.

The square of fabric is set on top and then . . .

Then you fold over the edge and hand stitch it down in a curved shape; the folded fabric just sort of naturally forms the curve.