Friendship Star Variation Table Runner
I don't always follow a pattern when making my quilts. Usually I start with a few coordinating fabrics, in this case a beautiful rose print on a black background, a rose and a gold that coordinate with the rose print. Deep rose table runner First I make a few basic quilting units - some four patches and some half square triangles. Then I play with them on my design wall. Long and Skinny? My design wall is just a length of white flannel yardage that I pieced together and tacked to the wall near the ceiling. I love being able to put my fabric pieces on and being able to rearrange them until I'm happy with the layout. Or square? First I tried out a layout for a long skinny runner, then I tried a square layout. Although I liked them both, the square layout won and I finished the piecing. Machine embroidered quilting I decided that this would be a great project to try out quilting with my embroidery machine. There were a few bumps in this process, but in the...
