Pretty Little Thing Table Runner: Finally Finished!!

The last time you saw this project (in my tutorial for the blog hop), it looked like this:

and I hadn't managed to get it completely finished in time for my turn on the blog hop.  Over the last few weeks I've managed to claw back enough energy to tackle the quilting and I have some more photos to share:

I use a  teaspoon to help close the safety pins - it helps avoid drawing/safety pin thumb!

I quilted in the same mid grey (Aurifil 50wt 5004) that I used for most of the piecing.

I eyeballed most of the lines, and used masking tape for sections which were difficult to eyeball. 

I used a pin to mark the position of the tips of the segments so they weren't chopped off when I added the binding.

I'm really rather pleased with how it's turned out!

The back

A closer look at the quilting.

And if that wasn't an exciting enough thing (did I mention that this is a finish from my 2016 Q2 FAL list?!), there's a new member of the tribe:

This is Eddie and he's come to live with Mam.  He was a little hairy when she got him, but he had a haircut (and gained a dickie bow!) and now (until his hair grows again!) he looks like this:

He's a golden cocker spaniel and is almost four years old and has come via a friend of a friend who could no longer look after him.  He and Archie get on fine (i.e. they mostly ignore each other!) and Eddie has spent a couple of afternoons here, dozing at my feet.  Here they are together on Monday, when Eddie had just arrived back from his walk and so he's still wearing his halti (which stops him towing us down the street):

Thanks for popping in, I'm hoping to be back soon with some more updates, but I'm pretty tired at the moment so I'm not promising anything.  I hope you're working hard on your FAL lists (mine is here, if you want a laugh), though, because the finishes link up opens in a smidge over three weeks.  Yes, three weeks!  Best get cracking then, eh?!