After I pieced the top of my table runner for the Modern Christmas Table Runner swap, I posted it up in Flickr and asked for opinions about quilting. I wanted to see if my partner had any preference.
Well, I got a tonne of ideas, most of which recommended following the zig zags of the tree shapes. My absolute favourite bit of advice was from Rhonda, who told me to "quilt the snot out of the white parts" to make the trees puff up a little. I'm still giggling to be honest, mostly because that is exactly the sort of phrase I would come out with myself! But her advice has been on repeat in my head for the last week and I couldn't get away from it!
I decided that a little hand quilting would be nice, and I had the perfect ruby red Perle cotton for it. So I outlined each of the trees in it this week while watching my nightly doses of Aussie Masterchef and really love the effect.
Next I took it off to my sewing machine, and, with everyone's advice ringing in my ears, I started by echo outlining each of the trees and then filling in the rest of the spaces. I decided to go very dense and the quilting lines are only 1/4" apart.
I'm totally thrilled with how its looking! Really love how the trees pop against it.
I still need to straight line quilt the rest of the white space but want to put the backing fabric on before I do that.
So this is on target to be all done and ready to post off next week. I also need to do a little handmade ornament, but I have LOADS of inspiration pinned on my Christmas Pinterest board and looking forward to deciding on what to do at the weekend.
33 comments:
It looks just wonderful! glad you received good advice!
I love this!! And you know, I've been wondering if combining machine quilting and hand quilting is something that's ever done, and here you've shown me that it can work beautifully together. :)
Wow! That has made a huge difference to an already lovely runner.
I want that runner please. Oh, and 999 followers. Bring on four digits!! Incredibly well done you!
Love your runner, it's gorgeous!
Ohhhhhhhhh it turned out lovely....so fresh and cheerful to look at...
It's beautiful, Sarah!
I love the combination of hand and machine quilting!
I would say you have efficiently removed the snot from it! And it certainly gave the tress a perfect amount of puffiness!
three things of note:
1- rhonda, in her infinite quilt wisdom was right on, 'snot' or not..it's the perfect amount
2- masterchef is the best quilting show. 'nuff said.
3- the perle is fab :)
I think you have one very lucky partner!
Wow, the quilting looks beautiful!!
It's perfect and I am doing the same thing with my quilt I am quilting right now...a combo of Machine and hand quilting.
Gorgoeus, gorgeous twinnie xxx
looks great!
I love it Sarah, it looks fantastic!.
I love it Sarah! It is so fresh and christmassy without being ott. Well done!
I love it! It's beautiful!
Oh it's just gorgeous!
That's beautiful! I love the white background.
Love it Sarah! The quilting is just the icing on the cake, love the touch of hand quilting around the trees!
Your snot quilting totally worked! It looks fantastic, Sarah!
The perle cotton hand stitched around the edge of the trees is FABULOUS! I would not have thought of it -- but now I have to go off and get perle cotton in Christmasy colors to properly finish my Christmas projects! Adorable!
Oh that looks absolutely fab, love it! I'm hooked on Aussie Masterchef too :oD
It's fabulous!!!
the quilting looks fantastic, finishes off your amazing runner perfectly
Your runner is A-MAZING and congrats on 999!
Absolutely stunning Sarah! Love the quilting! Jxo
Perfect quilting...Looks amazing!
The quilting looks brilliant, love dense straight line quilting but the little bit of hand quilting really sets it off
Love the straight line quilting around the trees Sarah - and the handstitching looks so lovely!!
Beautiful! the quilting is really fab. I adore the triangles, and need to master them. and if you get time to make another, we would love a tutorial! It could easily look great with other , non Xmas fabrics, don't you think?
It is just beautiful and cheery looking! I tried to find what the fabric line is that you used, and can't locate it. Could you fill me in? They are just so bright and happy looking!
What a beautiful table runner. Can you tell me what line of fabric you used in the runner? I love the way you outlined the trees & then did the echo around them. This will be very pretty on your swap partners table this year.
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