Table runner with border fabric

Nothing quite decks out a table like a new table runner. This is the time of year when we have friends and family over to the house for holiday meals. Like ...

Hello and happy Sunday. It's still only the middle of November but we spent our morning putting up the Christmas tree and decorating our home for the coming holiday season. This year hasn't been normal, so why stick to the first of December tradition when we could decorate our home earlier? We have bought a few Christmas trees over the years and this year were determined to put up our big 2m tall traditional green tree in the living room. But then we discovered that our colourful lights…

Sharon and Kay came over yesterday for sewing. What a whirling dervish we have when Kay is involved! She gets more accomplished in a day tha...

In this tutorial, Katrina demonstrates how to make a simple cross-hatch quilted table runner using border fabric. Perfect for picnics in the summer or settin...

Welcome to my post for The Winter Blues Blog Hop. Carla, from Creatin' in the Sticks has such great blog hop ideas. Thanks, Carla! I'm glad to join all the others who are posting a project this week. I hope you have been able to see all the wonderful projects that have been shown so far this week. Here is the list of the bloggers for the last 2 days of the hop. Thursday, January 23rd Websterquilt Songbird Designs Cynthia's Creating Ark Storied Quilts Patchwork Breeze Seams To Be Sew…

The 20-Minute Table Runner has continued to be a holiday staple at our brick and mortar shop every year. We kit them in many different fabric options, and they just fly off the shelves. Our custome…

Singer Featherweight 222K Before he passed away my Dad had bought a lovely Singer 222K Featherweight. He loved to collect antique sewing items as he knew how much I love them. Mum delivered it to me at the end of last week and I have been getting to know it. The 222K is a free arm machine and you can also drop the feed dogs for darning if you want to. It sews a perfect 1/4 inch seam and I practised sewing some of the Easy Street Mystery quilt pieces.(Will post my photos of my progress there…

What would you do with a meter of striped fabric? Here's what I did in an hour... I ironed my 1 meter of striped fabric. This fabric had 5 repeats of the same striped pattern. I folded my striped fabric, so that all the stripes were lined up perfectly (not selvage to selvage in this case). Using my rotary cutter, I found where the repeat started, and cut 5 strips. Using one of the strips, I unfolded it and laid it out on my cutting table. I lined up the 60 degree mark on my ruler and went on…

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Flip and sew table runner I had about an hour to sew last night and I needed to prepare a project for my Leah Day homework for this week. And you know, it's getting close to Christmas, every project (and homework) has to count! So, I whipped up this cute little table runner all ready for some FMQ "Paisley Snakes". I cut backing 23" x width of the fabric (WOF) and a piece of batting approx. the same size Then I cut a center strip about 11" x WOF and two side border pieces 4.5" x WOF. Centered…