Breezy Table Runner + Heart Update

I bought a kit at Pine Needles Quilt and Sew in Rochester, MN, just a short drive from Mayo Clinic, and sewed this table runner!

Here's what came in the kit: a charm pack, accent, border and binding fabrics, and the pattern, all tucked inside a fun zipper pouch! ⤵️

My Quilt Info:

Pattern: Breezy, part of the Simply Charming Club by Me and My Sister Designs

Fabrics: Wanderlust by Create Joy Project for Moda Fabrics

Size: 22" x 43"

Batting: Quilters Dream Poly

Thread: Glide--Linen

Pantograph: New Zealand Koru ⤵️ from My Creative Stitches

Here's how the designer describes this new-to-me pantograph: "New Zealand Koru Edge-to-Edge features the symbol inspired by an unfurling silver fern frond. The koru reflects universal truths of new life, growth, renewal, strength, and peace." Interesting!!! Check out some images of New Zealand Koru here. Does this panto look like that to you?

The backing is fabric from IKEA, a decorator weight, so it's thicker than quilting cotton. ⤵️

I don't normally buy kits, but if I do, I like to switch them up so that the final quilt is not 100% like everyone else's. In this case, I swapped out the brown accent fabric for a dark blue blender. ⤵️

I also significantly changed the size. The pattern makes a 28" x 32" quilt. I made 2 extra blocks, using all 42 of the charm squares, and then made mine 22" x 43", just the right size for our coffee table, which btw, lifts up to brings a laptop to a working height. Thank you, Costco! ⤵️

On my last visit to Pine Needles Quilt & Sew, near Mayo Clinic, I got the next available kit--"Confetti"!!! The fabrics are adorable and I love "plus quilts", so I'm looking forward to this one!

Heart update: Thank you for your thoughts and prayers for my husband. Last Friday, just 1 day after he was put on the heart transplant wait list, he had a stroke at home. 

I quickly realized something was wrong and called 911. The EMTs got him to the hospital in short order, and a doctor promptly did a procedure to dissolve the blood clot they found in his right brain. Within 30 minutes he was awake and once more talking and using his left side--what a miraculous medical procedure! He seems to have no residual effects from the stroke!

They let him come home on Monday, straight out of ICU. He is on hold for a heart transplant until he has a check up this week at Mayo Clinic.

Prayers are greatly appreciated.

Grace and peace!!! ~Nancy

You'll find more quilt inspiration at Wednesday Wait Loss, Needle & Thread Thursday, Put Your Foot Down, TGIFF, Off the Wall Friday, Finished Or Not Friday, From Bolt To Beauty, Patchwork & Quilts, Oh Scrap, Handmade Monday, Sew & Tell, Design Wall Monday, Monday Musings.