Pink Table Runner for Dianne

We've had a series of "corporate actions" at my workplace over the past three years. The first one, labelled a "reorganization" resulted in a move to a new position that to put it mildly, I did not like. I suffered a lot of emotional distress for the past 2.5 years, and I wouldn't have gotten through the day without my co-workers, Julie and Dianne. Fortunately, this past September, we had yet another "reorganization" that resulted in a new job that I LOVE!! (Said with fingers crossed, don't want the bad karma to come back...)

I decided to make a quilt for each of my two friends as a token of love for their support and friendship. I did let them know that I wanted to make each of them a quilt, just in case they didn't want one. Julie opted for a quilt, but Dianne wanted a table runner. In theory, a table runner is easier than a quilt, but Julie's quilt was so easy for me. We both love animal prints, and her quilt didn't make the slightest dent in my stash. Dianne asked for a pink table runner to match her pink dining room. While I do have pink fabrics galore, I never realized how hard it is to combine different pinks together!

I finally found the perfect pattern in a free online quilt magazine, Modern By the Yard, Issue One. The design that I used is called Icicles and it appears on page 18. All of the pink fabrics came from my stash. Anyway, here is my finished table runner. I think it is one of the nicest things that I've made in a long time. I wanted to keep it. Fortunately for Dianne, my dining room table is round!

Ironically, this is my friend Julie (who received the animal print quilt) displaying Dianne's table runner. Dianne was absent the day I brought in her gift, so she received it a few days later. She was really surprised!

The road to finishing wasn't without a few mishaps... Right after I sewed the binding to the back, I decided to square it off. Bad mistake! I cut two holes in the binding that I had already sewn on.

This corner has a nice hole in it.

While I managed to slice this corner completely in half.

Choice curse words were uttered and I had to put it aside for a couple of days until I was in the mood to repair it. One corner is slightly wonky, but only noticeable by other experienced quilters!

The fabulous "extreme quilting" was done by my friend and award-winning quilter Karen Pratt. It is the same quilting design that was shown in the magazine.

Here is the table runner in Dianne's pink dining room. It looks very cool on her glass table.

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Pugs and kisses,
Nancy