Okay, so it's not a mile long, but it sure seemed like that when I was binding it. Keeping it real, it's only 7 feet long. It goes the whole length of our dining room table. Also, keeping it real, you can see my "helpers" don't know too much about photo styling. ;-) They were very happy to get in on the quilty photo action though, as I had finally made something small enough for them to hold for pictures rather than Daddy ... but "Daddy" responds better to my directions ... about where to turn to get the right background, how high or straight to hold it ...
I so love their effort, but there were coordination issues ... this is about the best of the indoor shots ...
Anyway, I am really pleased with this table runner. It went together really fast. You can see it is just simple random-width strips. I had leftover Halloween fabric from the quilts I made this year. In some cases, the very last scraps of the fabric are in this runner.-
Over Thanksgiving, we visited my parents for a day and I used my Mom's new sewing machine. So fun! I used the decorative stitch that looks like a baseball stitch to quilt the runner. I just used straight lines. I went over each seam and then added in a few extra lines here and there where needed. It was sooooooo nice to use a machine that didn't tangle thread, randomly change its own tension, get stuck, etc. ...
I used this Woodgrain by Joel Dewberry for binding.
On the table waiting for the first spill ;-)
