That really looks good with the pieced blocks  in it. 

My goodness, you have been busy! All three are so bright and cheerful.  Lucky someone who gets them.

They all look great. The last one is my favorite.

One of Mr. Pirate's extended family  (for the genealogists among us, it is his first cousin twice removed) is getting married this October.  There is a bridal luncheon being held for her this coming Wednesday (like .. tomorrow!!).  

She isn't on a gift registry (yet?) and I don't know her well and I really do just hate shopping in person these days (too lazy to get dressed, drive, park, walk and walk and walk ....) so I decided that I would make her a set of 4 reversible placemats and napkins.  Honestly, it was just easier for me to do *that* than go shopping.

I finished everything over the past weekend, made the card and boxed it up.  I have absolutely no idea if she values homemade things or even likes placemats + cloth napkins, but that's what she's getting.  LOL!

Here's the front.  The body of each placemat is different.

The reverse of each placemat is a plain neutral.

And here's the card I made.

Now ... back to the quilt on the longarm, since my spool of bobbin thread has arrived!  :-)

So this is a bridal shower for Mr. Pirate's cousin's granddaughter.

Hope she's planning to have plain white china and not a pattern involving red barns, chicken coops and sunflowers.

Sorry for the rude response but one cousin's granddaughter lives in Virginia and I'll never be invited to any wedding (or shower) so I can't imagine getting lured into any such family gathering. (Another cousin's grandchildren live in the Seattle area and another cousin's family is in Florida ... you get the idea that many of us Hoosier descendants have become very widely scattered.)

judyinohio said:

So this is a bridal shower for Mr. Pirate's cousin's granddaughter.

You are exactly correct!

We/I know the cousin very well.  We/I even know the cousin's daughter very well, which is why we have been invited to the wedding, etc.   I know the bride-to-be from family gatherings but just not a whole lot.   I think it was very lovely of them to include us in the guest list; I was just griping about the shopping.  :-)   I enjoyed making the placemats & napkins very much.  :-)

wow...those look incredible! She'd have to be a troglodyte to not appreciate them.

Pirate (PIRATE_SR) said:

I was just griping about the shopping.

I do not exactly love to shop but I have to get out of the house and see other humans or I will clobber DH. Even a friendly smile from a store's greeter is better than spending a whole day with Mr. Grumpy.

It's only a half-mile to the local Meijer's (mid-west version of a big box store) where I can purchase groceries, birthday cards, magazines, pick up Rxs or hulled sunflower seeds for the bird feeders.  I could have picked up a cool gift for a bridal shower if I had needed one.

That one hour excursion out of the house greatly improves my disposition for the next few days.

I worked on the hand quilting on my table topper yesterday & evening and I guess I over did it a bit.  I was learning how to use an "aunt becky" thimble based on watching some online videos.  It was going pretty well and I was making lots of progress.  Then I realized my hands and arms were starting to hurt and it was getting late.  As I was getting ready for bed I happened to look down at my hands/arms in the bathroom light.  Holy Moly!  The veins on the back of my hands, wrists and arms looked like a marathon runner's  legs.  Seriously creepy!  They look much more normal this morning (still old but normal). I had never noticed that happening before.

the quilting is going well though   I am doing a cross hatch in the background and I'm half way through the 1st set of lines.  Using masking tape to mark and quilting in a large hoop.  Lots easier to quilt in an area where there are no seams.  the stitches looks pretty even, though on dark purple it would be hard to see unless obviously different.

Are you talking about the "Aunt Becky" finger protector that goes under the quilt and you slide it back and forth so you can "rock" your needle back and forth?  It's supposed to help you stitch faster and make your stitches more even?