Monday, September 2, 2013

Earth to Sky Table Runners


Last week I talked about the wonderful Modern Yardage fabric I bought.  Well the week before my Sister in Law challenged me to make smaller things (like my baby quilts are not small enough)  so keeping with that I am making table runners.  As every one knows I like to chop my fabric into little pieces and put them back together.  So for my table runners I decided to make them out of 2 1/2 inch squares and do a diagonal table runner similar to the diagonal quilt I made.


I decided I wanted my rows to be 7 squares across.  So I sewed them all together at a angle going down.  When I was done I cut the top off one (and then sewed it to the bottom) so that I did not have to figure out the shorter rows.  Then I cut that long strip in half.  Tanya thought the way above looked great and wanted me to figure out how to bind the jagged edge, but having common sense I chopped them off.


Even chopped off they looked cool (yah, not as cool, but hey I was not up to the wild edge)


Above is the back of my table runners I used the 10 fat quarters to make the front and the back of these (and binding) and had enough left over to make a few hot pads which will be finished at another time.  These images show them before I washed them (oh ya they still need to be washed), but that will happen soon enough, but I wanted to show them off now.


One last thing I would like to mention is that I have started to Instagram my along the way shots (as I tend to always forget to post them here) if you look at me on Instagram (http://instagram.com/rhealey101) you can see all the crazy things I am making and many of which have never yet made it to the blog.  I also added a viewer to the sidebar that shows off the last 6 shots and as of the writing of this it shows some yet to be shown off table runners I was working on last night.

8 comments:

Christine S said... 1

Looks great!

Vroomans' Quilts said... 2

Great way to use those FQs - runners, table toppers and pot holders always do well as sales.

Anonymous said... 3

Ah shucks, no jagged edges. You did work the prints together very effectively, though.

Teresa Quilts said... 4

Great looking table runners! I, too, love the jagged edges, but I'm like you, not sure how to bind those.

LethargicLass said... 5

gorgeous table runners! I'm not on Instagram so don't forget about us little people here on the blog LOL

Marsha Cooper said... 6

These are very pretty and I love the idea of them.
I have a lot of table runners that I want to get made.....now if only I can make myself get into my craft room each day, even if just for a little bit of sewing.

Kelly @ My Quilt Infatuation said... 7

Cute table runner!

Thank you so much for sharing this at Needle and Thread Thursday!

:) Kelly @ My Quilt Infatuation

Elizabeth said... 8

Oh, those are way cool! Love those fabrics. I went and drooled at the fabrics over at modern yardage. I love the concept they have going on. Congrats on two more awesome finishes and thanks for linking up!

xo -E

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