Table Top Blog Hop-My Turn!

So if you've been hopping along this week, you know that we have all made small quilts that are displayed in a very cute table top frame, made by Ackfeldwire.  They have so many neat frames and the little decorative top is easily changed out to reflect the season if you wish.  If this is your first visit to the hop, please go through and check out some of the previous days entries.  There is some great talent here.  Now, on to my little quilty goodness.

Originally this blog hop was going to be in February, so I had planned something Valentine's Day related.  I wanted to try paper piecing, and I thought  heart would be pretty easy.  This was my second attempt, but alas, it was to big for what I had planned.  So I made a third one (the first ended up in the trash) and fit it into my quilt.

In my family the movie, The Princess Bride is a
particular favorite and for many years now, my husband has responded to many things I have said with "As you wish" which fans of the movie will recognize as Wesley's way of saying" I love you" to Buttercup.

So I had planned to put this into a small quilt for Valentine's Day for him, as my gift.  I got the heart made and the words done on separate pieces of fabric and put it all together with a red border. 

I have done several pieces of quilting lately with pebble quilting and he really likes it, so naturally, I decided that's how it should be quilted.

 And here it is in all its glory.  He loved it.  I love it.  And it sits in our living/dining room where we can see it all the time.

 This angle shows off the quilting a bit better.  The paper pieced heart is not quilted at all so it stands out.  Then, with it being spring and all, I wanted to make another one.  I recently bought Sunday Morning Quilts by Amanda Jean Nyberg (Crazy Mom Quilts) and Cheryl Arkinson (Naptime Quilter/Diningroom Empire). It is chock full of GREAT scrap quilts.  I wanted to make a Ticker Tape quilt, but not one in a big bed size.  So I made this:

 It started out to be a bunch of colors, but soon I realized it needed to be yellow.  Yellow is my favorite color of all.  I. Love. It.  I now am planning to make more in each color of my scrap bins and hang them as a collection in my bedroom once I get around to repainting it.

 I think it will be quite striking.  In any case, I love it and that's all that matters, right?

Hope you have enjoyed your visit here and hop along to the other wonderful blogs and see what they have to show you.  And a big thanks to Madame Samm for organizing this.  She does have the best ideas.  Here are the other links:

Friday April 20th 

Marlene 

Charlotte (you are here)

Leslie

Darlene 

Jane

Michelle

Cherry