Sunflower Table Runner
 

I saw this pattern while I was visiting my son in Texas last year, It's a Patrick Lose pattern. It was a LOT of work, but it really turned out nice. I'm keeping this project!

Very cheery and happy. I can see why you are keeping it. - I would too.

It is very pretty and I also admired your satin stitching.

Absolutely gorgeous, Lalaland, you must be thrilled to bits.

Beautiful!!

What a gorgeous sunflower, I love it, well done.

I love the vibrant colors. Very nice!

Very, very nice!

+1 on the satin stitching.
It looks flawless.

Any tips? Tricks?

Beautiful....so cheerful!!!!!

that is so pretty and colorful

Very nice......I'm with everyone else.....love the sunflower..thanks for sharing

it's beautiful

Very pretty!

Very Pretty, love the colors

Very pretty.

It came out beautifully!

Beautiful and your work is beautiful too.

its really pretty! and i so admire your satin stitching! it's perfect...looks like satin piping...

Have to also add my .02 regarding your satin stitch. As MTS pointed out, it looks flawless. Looks almost like you did a couching stitch of some sort over a cord to give it dimension. Please elaborate how you acheived such stunning results.

yes very nice

Sew pretty, I love it!!!

It is gorgeous. I love the fabrics you chose. I would keep it too.

Ditto. BrendaK

It's beautiful! Yep, I'd keep it too! lol

I totally agree, this is awesome!!!!!!!

Love the bright colors ~ very pretty sunflower! :)

Very beautiful.

Simply Beautiful and your satin stitching is lovely!!!

very nice like the colors!!!!

Very nice, Lala..if you don't have a round table, I know someone who does (hint hint)...

To tell you the truth, I'm pretty impressed with my satin stitching as well, especially since my tension went wonky on my twice during this project.

I think the satin stitching has a raised appearance because there are 5 layers to this project - the applique pieces, the fabric the appliques are bonded to, the steam-a-seam I used to bond the appliques to the fabric, the lightweight fusible batting I added, and the backer piece (I brought the backer piece over to the front to make the binding).

I also used embroidery thread for the satin stitching, which is a little more refined and has a very high sheen to it. My zig zag setting was 2.0 width x 0.3 length on the leaves, and 2.5 width x 0.3 length on the circle.

That's so pretty!

Wow that is great! The top stitching is very nice.

Fantastic stitching on a lovely piece!! :)

Ah, so you did the SS to the quilt sandwich.
Maybe that had something to do with it.
But you obviously stopped and started and turned in exactly the right spots.
I don't embroider so I don't have a lot of that type of thread around but I will try it next time.

I have to say, because it looked so good, I originally thought it was digitized and done on an embroidery machine - or whatever the process/terminology is.
I've seen Patty Thompson do it that way.

Anyway, very impressive.

Thanks for the tips!

Thanks for the compliment! Patrick Lose has a lot of projects that are digitized machine embroidery, this just happened not to be one of them. If it had been, I would definitely be making more.

Here is a sample of a design he does that is digitized machine embroidery. Unfortunately I didn't know that at the time I did it and so did it on my sewing machine. I've since purchased the embroidery design so I could do it on my embroidery machine.

I love it. It is so pretty.

Gorgeous! Love it!
Maureen