My Mom and Dad arrived last night for a late summer visit. Giddy to see the grandkids and thankful to leave the Missouri summer heat behind. A lot of eating, wine drinking and late evening conversation happens around our dining table when guests are in the house. I wanted to add a splash of color to the festivities. Additional pictures over on Flickr.
Gorgeous! Love the photo of it on the table.
I love your tablerunner! Gorgeous fabrics!
The machine quilting is fabulous. Is it all free-motion?
Ordinarily I’m not a big fan of chocolate brown in quilts, but I’m loving this! The design makes the difference.
Beautiful! I love the way you quilted the flowers – that is so creative! The fabric on the big prints a friend of mine and I went to JoAnn’s and picked out for her nappy bag. It looks great on a bag, too, but then again, what fabric doesn’t look great on a bag!
Wow. I love this. Really lovely and hinting at Autumn.
Seth was just admiring the brown border fabric at Stitches the other day, but I like two of the little prints — the pale blue with rosebuds, visible above, and that super yellow gingham with blue squiggly lines visible in this pic: http://www.flickr.com/photos/80233243@N00/223810184/. I must find some!
I absolutely love the way you quilted the rectangular “spiral” on the smaller pieces! Great colors!
What a beautiful, classy, homey touch to the table. We just inherited my mother-in-law’s old table and I’m definitely the market for some inspiration on dressing it. Thanks!
Oh, what very pretty colorful fabrics those are!
This is astoundingly beautiful.
That really is beautiful. I love the colors and the sort of pinwheel detail on the flowers.
Quelles couleurs splendides ! C’est vraiment magnifique !
These fabrics are great!
That is absolutely stunning.
That turned out beautifully. I’m a big fan of table runners of this size, but I’m an even bigger fan of your fabric combo!
Love the colors & patterns!
I love the tablerunner. You really let the fabric and quilting do all the talking. I had to look at it for a moment before I realize the simple design. What are the table runner’s dimensions? It looks like a good size.
WOW!!
ahhh, so beautiful, Kathy!! LOVE your design, quilting, fabric combinations–just perfect!
Fabulous quilted table runner!!!
Its beautiful! I love all the fabric choices. You do such lovely work.
Kathy, this is an amazing color palatte! The fabric choices are incredible too.
Gosh, you are so talented! I LOVE the fabric and the black thread that you used to quilt with. I recognize the DS fabrics. Are the big florals really from JoAnns? You keep amazing me.
Absolutely, absolutely gorgeous!! The fabrics go so well together, and I just LOVE the colours!!
Okay, you are really tempting me with those DS fabrics. I also love that pale blue with the tiny roses as another commenter said. You never seem to run out of fabulous ideas! I love table runners, but in my house they would be called CAT beds! Anything on the table is plopped on immediately!
Great job and fabulous color combinations!!
man o man, that’s awesome. love the fabrics and colors.
Oh wow, that’s fabulous!
Love it, love it, love it!
What a great composition of colors and wonderful quilting!
Very gorgeous !
Absolutely gorgeous! What a lovely way to spruce up mealtime!
Nice. Do do great work pink girl. I recognize most of your fabrics…you have put them together nicely!
Just gorgeous!
Me likey! Then again, I’m a sucker for a table runner. Now that I’ve made them for everyone else, I need to make one for my table. I’m thinking I need to make mine chocolate brown, like yours
LOVE IT! Love the fabrics and color combinations! Well done!
gorgeous!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wow, you just whipped that up?????? Lovely!
Truly inspirational!!
This quilt is just gorgeous!
Hi There,
I absolutely love the way that you quilted through this table runner. I have been playing around with machine quilting and would love to do something along these lines. If you have time for a quick question…I am wondering do you machine quilt the different designs continuously? For example, the square quilting looks like you go from one square to the next…do you go right in to the stippling from there? Also, when you do the square design do you turn the quilt or do you do it free motion. I know that was a lot of questions, I just love the look of it. If you don’t have time to answer I totally understand.
Hi Shannon,
I did free motion quilting on the whole thing.
I did several different rounds because I wanted to use different colored thread on the different shapes. I started with the square in the middle to anchor everything and then started working towards the edges. I chose the design for the large squares because it was something I could ‘eye’ given my stitching towards different elements of the square (the center edges and the corners), it was also a single line design. A long winded way of saying I didn’t turn the square.
The small rectangles gave me trouble because I stitched the path into the middle and then came out again (a square spiral). If I did that again I would have just started at one end and gone back and forth with squared turns at the edges. Something I think about while eating dinner!
I like to experiment on these types of projects coming up with techniques I like and could use later on a quilt. Take a look at how I used freezer paper on this baby quilt: http://pinkchalkstudio.com/blog/2007/02/27/baby-quilt/ . I’m sold on that type of a technique for ‘squares’ and would have used it for the large squares on the table runner if I’d known about it at the time.
Happy Sewing,
Kathy