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Hello!
My niece just had another remodel. She turned her screened in patio into a closed in dining room. So she went shopping and found an oak table with 8 chairs. I offered to make her a Christmas runner and sent her pictures of fabrics I had in my stash. She chose this piece with Santa, deer, tree and snowmen.
The runner can be reversible. I used the fabric with the rows going across the width for one side. On the other side I made Stars.
I don’t know why but lately I have been making it hard on myself. I think it’s because I am always being interrupted or distracted. Here is what I mean.
I knew she liked the Santa with deer and tree, so I fussy cut a square for the center of my stars. I made all my blocks, then decided to sash around them with the rows of snowmen from the fabric. All went well and I was so proud of my mitered corners matching up. (See photo
Then I thought it needed a row of Santa borders because I only had them in the center square. If I had really been thinking, I would have realized by adding another border all around, it would just be too wide. I didn’t ‘think’ until after I sewed, mitered and edge finished it. 😳🙄😩
So after making perfectly mitered borders ( yea!) I had to rip it all out (boo-hoo) and go back to just the first snowmen border only.
I have been working on this 3 days! I should have finished this easily if I had use all of my brain and not just ‘half a brain’. The idea forms in my head and I make as I go. Somewhere along the way I guess I quit thinking.🙄 The finished width with just Snowmen border is 17 inches. If I had left the Santa border on as in the 3rd picture, I am embarrassed to admit it was 25 inches! Her table is 41 wide. It did look good but just too wide to look good on the table.
1- fabric niece chose
2- first border mitered
3- with both borders on ( just look at those mitered corners!-lol)
4- back to just one border and completely quilted and black binding on
5 -reverse side with whole fabric

I think she will like it and the fact that both sides can be used, she still gets her Santa.
Have a good day or night!❤️Toogie

Another beauty Toogie! I think we have all been down the path of not really thinking through something, oops! It turned out fantastic!

wow, really nice! She will love it!

Sometimes we're our own worst enemy! But the finished runner is beautiful.

That looks so elegant!

You did a great job on everything including the borders, despite the set backs, and your niece will be thrilled.

Great runner. I like the extra border on it. Too bad it was too wide

This is so festive. She will love it!

Great runner!! I'm sure your niece will be thrilled.
.. and thanks for the inspiration, as I just happen to have some similar border print fabrics that I never know what to do with. Now I have no excuse!! :)

You sound like me .... have an idea and make it as I go, but then I have another idea and oops, kind of messes with the first plan's execution. Ugh! :) But that's how we all get originals instead of cookie cutter quilts that EVERYONE can have!