10-10-10 Table Runner

Today is Phil’s parents’ 56th wedding anniversary.   Last week FIL asked MIL where she wanted to go for dinner today.   She said, “I want to eat with K….”

🙂

Instead, they are taking us out to eat after church.   A buffet brunch at a nice State Park near here.

I made them a table runner.  I’ve had this in my head for awhile but other things took priority until it was crunch time!   It is a whole cloth quilt.  Here is the marked top.  I think it took about 2 hours to mark it all.   Silk-cotton blend that I hand-dyed in bronze.

I used cotton backing and wool batting.  Quilted using Superior Threads silk thread for the first time.   Bottom Line in the bobbin.  Bliss!!  After I quilted the straight rows, I did one of the large center blocks.  They are only 8″ square.   I squealed with glee to see this!

(washed out from flash)   The straight line quilting and the free-motion work in one block took just over an hour.  I had work to do but by golly, I think my eyes crossed doing this!!!  I continued on, taking more breaks and just stopping to look off in the distance at times.    The quilting took about 4 1/2 hours.  I added binding and hand-stitched that to the back on Saturday morning.   Then I so blithely tossed it in the washer.   🙂   I let it dry pinned to the living room carpet to block it to shape.  It is about 17″ x 27″ after all the quilting.

I wrote on the back but then all the quilting really covered a lot of it.   Somewhere in there I can make out the 10-10-10 I put on.

I had rust in the bobbin thinking that would make the back look cool.  However, I used up the whole bobbin (Superior Threads Bottom Line handi-bobs) and wasn’t done yet!!  So the outer edges & one corner triangle has brown thread.   Next one will go better.   🙂

I’m in love with silk now!   The fabric is delicious… hand-sewing down the binding with silk thread… divine!!  🙂