A Christmas table runner I will NEVER, EVER make again ...
05-01-2008, 06:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Cordelia
Thanks, all. I am laughing about how expensive it was to make and how utterly useless it really is because there's no way on God's green earth food or drink, or candle, will be within three feet of it.
Izzy, my mom calls it a serger. Those woven strips of fabric, I stitched them on the serger machine and it put those gold metalic thread bindings, I guess you could call it. You know, like fine holiday fabric ribbon has? And I always wondered why they're so costly too! Now I know, it's that sparkly metallic edge on it.
Those are two inch strips all the edges are overlocked, I guess is another name for it.
I put a big image there, you can see really close up.
Izzy, my mom calls it a serger. Those woven strips of fabric, I stitched them on the serger machine and it put those gold metalic thread bindings, I guess you could call it. You know, like fine holiday fabric ribbon has? And I always wondered why they're so costly too! Now I know, it's that sparkly metallic edge on it.
Those are two inch strips all the edges are overlocked, I guess is another name for it.
I put a big image there, you can see really close up.
Did you say you have posted a close up = we can't see it :cry:
05-01-2008, 07:25 PM
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You have to download it to see it. You can see the edges better that way.
I had to use Wonder Under on the fabric, then serge it, then weaving the strips and pressing them down.
The result is very nice, but it was really a pain in the back end.
Here's a picture of the instructor's version, and they make nice Christmas stockings too.
Wow, I see the class was only $30. That makes it the $130 table runner.
:lol:
This was back in 11/06 I made this thing.
I had to use Wonder Under on the fabric, then serge it, then weaving the strips and pressing them down.
The result is very nice, but it was really a pain in the back end.
Here's a picture of the instructor's version, and they make nice Christmas stockings too.
Wow, I see the class was only $30. That makes it the $130 table runner.
:lol:
This was back in 11/06 I made this thing.
05-01-2008, 08:31 PM
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At one time or another we all have had a money pit project! I recall a project my husband and I started, made some cedar boxes, filled them with dirt and planted some strawberry plants. Our yield of strawberries that year, well, I figure it cost us about $137.00/pound for those few strawberries!!! The plants didn't last and we aborted our strawberry growing venture!:roll:
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05-01-2008, 09:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Cordelia
You have to download it to see it. You can see the edges better that way.
I had to use Wonder Under on the fabric, then serge it, then weaving the strips and pressing them down.
The result is very nice, but it was really a pain in the back end.
Here's a picture of the instructor's version, and they make nice Christmas stockings too.
Wow, I see the class was only $30. That makes it the $130 table runner.
:lol:
Funnily enough just last Tuesday one of my friends at the guild, had made her first woven 'ribbon' cushion, it was beautiful, you attached the vertical ribbons to fusible vilene just at the top and the bottom, then you weave the horizontal ribbons in and out, then iron them all down!! That sounds abit quicker and cheaper with a very similar effect....not as lovely as your gold threads though, but I suppose if you found really decorative ribbon you would get some great effects!! :D
This was back in 11/06 I made this thing.
I had to use Wonder Under on the fabric, then serge it, then weaving the strips and pressing them down.
The result is very nice, but it was really a pain in the back end.
Here's a picture of the instructor's version, and they make nice Christmas stockings too.
Wow, I see the class was only $30. That makes it the $130 table runner.
:lol:
Funnily enough just last Tuesday one of my friends at the guild, had made her first woven 'ribbon' cushion, it was beautiful, you attached the vertical ribbons to fusible vilene just at the top and the bottom, then you weave the horizontal ribbons in and out, then iron them all down!! That sounds abit quicker and cheaper with a very similar effect....not as lovely as your gold threads though, but I suppose if you found really decorative ribbon you would get some great effects!! :D
This was back in 11/06 I made this thing.
05-02-2008, 04:24 AM
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Serging those strips that way with the sparkly metallic serger thread actually turned those strips into ribbon.
I used to buy holiday ribbon and wind them around foam wreaths and make fine holiday wreaths. I liked to make them as gifts, but the ribbon cost so much money.
I had a particular ribbon that I loved. It seemed like it was made out of velveteen (spell?) and had serged gold metalic thread edges just like I did with my strips.
It was a red/green/gold diamond pattern. I'll have to snap a picture of that. All you do is buy it, wrap it around the wreath, pin it down and attach those glittery Christmas foliage thingys you buy in the craft stores and you have a real top class wreath.
I'll get pic of it and post it. I've never been able to find that beautiful ribbon again, but I wondered if I could make it myself now ...
I used to buy holiday ribbon and wind them around foam wreaths and make fine holiday wreaths. I liked to make them as gifts, but the ribbon cost so much money.
I had a particular ribbon that I loved. It seemed like it was made out of velveteen (spell?) and had serged gold metalic thread edges just like I did with my strips.
It was a red/green/gold diamond pattern. I'll have to snap a picture of that. All you do is buy it, wrap it around the wreath, pin it down and attach those glittery Christmas foliage thingys you buy in the craft stores and you have a real top class wreath.
I'll get pic of it and post it. I've never been able to find that beautiful ribbon again, but I wondered if I could make it myself now ...
05-02-2008, 02:37 PM
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I would be afraid to add up what I have spent on some of my projects. I think the ones that cost me the most are 'I can make that!'. The material, the material to fix what I cut wrong, the batting, the thread, the thread because I keep running out, the gas to buy the equipment. The needles because I keep breaking them, The book because I finally admit I need some help. The phone calls to my sister because she can quilt and tell me what I did wrong, the extra electricity because I am only going to sew a little bit more. The seam ripper because my dog chewed up the one I was using and left in one of the rooms I moved to, so I could rip out more stitching. The kleenex because I cried when I found out I put a whole row on backwards. Just a few of my hidden quilting costs.
05-02-2008, 10:05 PM
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That is the funniest thing I've ever heard. I needed a good laugh. Then you got me thinking about some of the classes I couldn't live without and how much they ended up costing. I guess we are all a little crazy!
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