EB Christmas Table Runner Swap

This is the culprit. The culprit for my sewing course and for this blog (well, one of the chicks I encountered there is the culprit for the blog - yep, I'm looking at you LilFrankie). I've never done any quilting before and never really been interested but it caught my eye in the recent posts section and I thought, "why the hell not?". So I started surfing the net for pics of Christmas Table runners, which revived the idea of doing a sewing course. A lovely, lovely friend with whom I used to work and I had looked into it once before. We were hoping to find one close to our work place and do it together. She is fantastic at sewing and incredibly creative. She has encouraged and inspired me to have a go (indeed, I should name her as a co-culprit). She feeds me patterns from Russian pattern mags that she buys and translates the instructions for me. The dress that I have mostly finished is one of those patterns and the maternity outfits I made are from another (same pattern just made one as a top and one as a dress), and I have a number of patterns for kids stuff that she's given me. Oh, and then there is the whole box of fabric that she picked up at the markets when I was pregnant. It's all sitting there waiting for me to morph it into something else.


But I digress, what I wanted to write about was the fabric and the basic pattern I have chosen for my table runner. The fabric I have ordered today from The Fat Quarter Shop

The fabric is going to be Toasty Glitzmas by Robert Kaufman


And the inspiration for the design of my table runner is coming from here: http://www.pleasant-home.com/2010/07/another-table-runner.html

I hope I can do this.