Saturday, April 17, 2010

While My Husband’s Away – A Table Runner is Made

For those of you that know me, you know that when my Husband’s away on a golf outing, I use the time to clean my sewing room.  Why do I wait until he’s gone?  Well, first of all my room is usually a big mess and in order to clean it I end up with stuff spread all over the place.  John is very tolerant but not when it comes to me spreading my junk everywhere.  Plus, it gives me a definite timeline so that once I start I have to be finished before he returns.  It’s great motivation.

So, he left Wednesday morning and so I started.  I had piles everywhere.  A file of fabric to donate to my guild, a pile of batting pieces, a pile for the Goodwill, you get the idea, lots of piles everywhere.  By Friday morning (he was coming home Friday afternoon) I had all my piles disposed of, I could see the top of my cutting table, my sewing machine table was de-cluttered and I could even see the floor.  What to do? 

Well in the process of clearing off the top of a cabinet I realized it was a perfect place for my Accuquilt Go.  I had recently ordered the drunkards path die so I might as well cut something out.  I had some left over fabric from a Letty’s Bag I made so I decided to use it.  You can’t believe  how fast it was to cut out the blocks and because of the accuracy they were super easy to sew together.  Next thing I knew I had a table runner top made. 

Since my sewing area was clear (and I was on a roll) I decided to continue on by quilting it and Wa-La!, I have a new table runner for my dining room table.

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It’s about 14” x 56” and the points are pretty darn close to perfect (giving proper credit to the “Go”).  All I have to do is finish sewing the binding down on the back and it’s ready for the table. 

BTW……

Here’s the setup for my “Go” cutter.

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I’m planning on using the Tumbler Block die to make a U.S. flag quilt sometime in the near future. 

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P. S.  One more day for the Birthday Gift give-away.  Visit my “Happy Birthday to Me” Blog entry to enter.

5 comments:

  1. It looks great Robin, I have the drunkard's path die too but haven't used it yet.

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  2. Very nice! It will be perfect on your table.

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  3. Now thats really good I like it.. how cool to be able to just cut all the pieces out like that

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  4. Happy belated birthday Robin...from what I've heard Marilyn and you had a great time on your lunch tour...I love the table runner you made, and I'm sooo jealous of you with a "go" I'm going to get me one...one day, but won't be anytime soon, but I will get one as they look like fun, and would be so much more accurate like you say. Hugs Naomi

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