The Dotsy table runner is now together. Here's how it looked before I put the borders on.
And here it is with the borders. Now that I look at it I'm realizing that this has turned out a bit bigger than anticipated. I might trim down the borders somewhat.
I really like how this looks, even with the blocks trimmed down to size the 3-D look still comes through. Especially from a further away view. I'm a little bummed that it's not going to be seen that way laying flat on the table. And close up, looking at it block by block, I really do not like the chopped up big polka-dots. It's vaguely unsettling somehow because the pattern in the fabric doesn't match up--at all.
Well, now to quilt it "as desired". Maybe I'll echo the pattern in the border fabric, that might be a cool overall design to use.
Check how it looks on the table before you chop off the borders. You might not need to. Perhaps you can have a place to hang table runners the month before the they rotate onto the table? It might be weird, though.
ReplyDeleteI just did exactly that, and if we want to have placemats, it needs to be cut down a little bit. I'm thinking of hanging them on pants hangers in the closet downstairs. Less ironing that way.
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