During the week I thought a lot about the blocks I trimmed last Friday & came to the conclusion that I didn't want more hangings. I need tablerunners more. Thursday i got them out to see how many i would need to use to fit my large table & found I'd miscounted & i had 24 blocks not 20. 12 blocks was too long so each runner would have 10 & i wiĺl find another use for the other 4. But what to do for the in between blocks ? I decided a 9 patch would work for me.
Friday morning i searched in my cupboard for a pack of fabrics I had stashed away. Not sure why i bought them but I think they originally were for the quilt as you go hexies.
I laid the blocks out on my bed to try & get an even mix of blocks as quite a lot of the blocks were sayings. I turned away for a moment & when I looked back I found this.
Several hours later all 9 patches made, some reverse sewing on one of the runners & voila, 2 runners made.
Moving onto another "old" ufo I pulled these out of a folder but after trimming a little I still don't know what I'll make with them as they are all different sizes. Bronwyn Hayes of Red Brolly included Brutus in a lot of her work & one year gave these ones out free but with no finished plan. Maybe I'll make a collection of Brutus cushions.
Come evening I finished the embroidery of the rr panel I was stitching last week. Now it can get into the mail & I just hope it doesn't take ages to get to the USA.
Pop over to Wendy's blog to see who joined in & what projects were worked on.
Happy Stitching,
8 comments:
Great work on your table runners....nice to have too many rather than not enough! Always l loved Bronwyns stitcheries x
Pretty runners. We have to be proud of ourselves and all these UFO's that are now seeing the finish line.
You are amazing! I don't get that much done in a month! I love the runners. What sweet embroidery too.
Wow, You were busy! Such lovely work.
What a lovely project. I'd be worried about those stitchery projects getting stained. LOL
You achieved a lot with your stitching. Lovely idea to make the runners. great result. Good luck making plans for those other blocks.
busy busy!!! I see you have used all the blocks now - well done - with the Brutus ones...maybe you could border them to make them a consistent size then join them into whatever size it ends up being. good luck with it.
Lots of pretty projects.
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