One day while at JoAnn Fabrics, searching for something else of course, I saw this new dragonfly fabric on their Keepsake Calico wall. Being in the mood for finding more spring/summer ideas for table runners for my Etsy shop, I figured this would be a good start to something. Well that is the way I tend to shop. I look for fabrics that would be useful and usually not having any particular design in mind. The fabric I am talking about is the border of this runner. And who could resist when they had it in my favorite aqua color. Yes they had a couple other colors too, but I don't even remember what they were!
Now you should all be proud of me that it only took about 10 days for me to use it instead of letting it ripen for 2 years!!
When the time had come that I just had to use this fabric I turned to EQ8 and did a search in there for dragonfly. Luck was on my side, they had an applique one, just perfect for this runner. All I did was enlarge it. Off to the stash to see what other fabrics I might find that would pull this all together. Yep I had them all just sitting there waiting;)
I quickly traced the dragonfly parts on the fusible and got to appliqueing them on. Now I got so excited by how stinkin' cute these were that I didn't take time to space them out better! Do you ever do that? Then comes the quilting, I thought the dragonflies needed some flowers to land on. So loops and flowers for the center and I stitched close to the dragonfly all the way around too. The border just wanted me to do piano keys on every other line that was already on the fabric, so no ruler needed.
And the perfect backing leftover from a quilt. This runner made it into the shop the same day I quilted it. One day start to finish isn't too bad!
Linking with
DrEAMI at Sandra's on the last Saturday in May.
