60 Inch Table Topper
 

In 1991 our Interior Decorator made all the curtains in our kitchen using the pink, purple, blue and other colors in the fabric, then gave me an extra meter of the fabric to make a cover for our new kitchen, I made sure I put this fabric in a safe place (28 years ago), so i wouldn't forget about it. I finally located the fabric, and this past week made the table topper, without a pattern, wasn't sure how to get it round, until I found I had a circular ruler. Now I[ATTACH=CONFIG]616789[/ATTACH] can go on holidays, as I am caught up with the last of those items I wanted to get finished.

nicely done! can't believe that fabric hid so well for so long

I hate those 'safe places'....and there are so-o-o-o many of them in our home!

Nice job. I just made a table topper but could not figure out how to make it round, so mine dangle over on the edges.

Very lovely. It will be a nice topper. I think we all have something like this that hides on us for a quarter of a century. How time flies. It looks grand and will well be a great addition.

I have used string and a thumbtack to make a circle before.

I hope you still had the curtains! I bought matching fabric for the wall paper in our kitchen, for dining room placemats and you guessed it. Years later still undone, and we moved into a different house. Oh well. Finally gave the placemats away for someone else to deal with. I love your table covering though, even with or without curtains LOL

What a clever use of your fabrics.:thumbup:

Got plenty of those 'safe ' places--lol ! Great job !

That was a great safe place for your fabric! Beautiful topper.

Great finish!!

[ATTACH=CONFIG]616817[/ATTACH]I still am using the same curtains, they are about 10 - 15 feet long, so will fit most any window size should we finally decide to move.

Very nice finish. I am learning not to put things away. Because I have put some things away and can not find them.

I have a pair of opal earrings that I "put away" for safe keeping. They were the fist gift my DH gave me when we were dating. I thought they were too pretty to wear, and didn't want to lose them. I have no clue what I did with them....any hints? Where did you find your fabric?

All I did to get the round in the table runner, took 2 very large pieces of freezer wrap and with the waxed side facing each other ironed those shiny sides together. Numbered the sides from 1 to 6 and attached the number to the middle of each side, so I would know which piece of the runner I was working on. Took the freezer paper and lined up the edge onto the freezer which I had placed beneath the runner, then drew a line along that edge from point to point- numbering line 1@top, adding on 6 inches to allow enough fabric as you will need some on each end, then drew another cutting line, and numbered that line 1 Bottom. My runner was 47 inches wide from point to point and I needed 57", (plus 1 inch + or -)seams, then added another couple of inches without doing a lot of math calculations, I just added on the 6 inches as noted above. Cutting out two of each of the fabrics 1 through 6, so I had . Then laid one of the batik fabrics on the right side of the runner and the 2nd piece of the Batik fabric - on the wrong side of the runner - underneath the runner. (I used batiks, as it doesn't matter which is right or wrong. When you fold over those two pieces, they should be wrong sides together, [TABLE="width: 100%"]
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. I used my creative circle ruler in order to make the 180 inches into a circle and in order not to have issues when putting on the binding, I sewed together the edges of these fabrics. Finally I sewed on the binding and just have to hand sew the reverse side of the binding onto the backing. [/TD]
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I hope this explanation will assist you when you try to make a circular shape, when you have a square and need to add on more fabric to make a circle.

Very nice. BrendaK

Very nice table topper!