Dresden Table Runner

Take Two - I wrote this post last night and then it conveniently disappeared. I Still Love Technology...Always and Forever...

I got this magazine a few months ago and Loved It!!! It's filled with greatness from large quilt to placemats and everything in between. 

I love that they are starting to make magazines for Modern Quilters.

I fell for this table runner right away and wanted to make it. My mom came over a few days later and did the same. She said she would love it in Red and Purple. I went to my stash and started pulling fabrics. 

I'm loving the gray and yellow trend that's going on right now!

I cut out the Dresdens and threw them on the design wall. I really love having a design wall, it makes such a difference. I don't know why every time I want to take pictures the sun hides from me :)

It was a dark day - sorry for the bad picture

This dude went together really quickly!!

I have a really funny story.  I decided to do some echo quilting to finish it up. I finished it up, took it off my machine and the stitching started to unravel. Seriously hilarious, right? Needless to say the project got shelved for a while. I talked to our "Quilt Mama" at my local Modern Quilt Guild and she gave me some great advice. I got out my seam ripper and got to rippin. It took me 2 hours to rip out all the stitches!! The next day I started echoing again. I wasn't feeling it this time around. Here we go again....Thank goodness I only had to rip out 4 dresdens. I decided to go with straight line quilting and I love the way it turned out. 

Yay, I got another project checked off my list!!! I'm pumped :)

I'm linking up to  Quilt Story's Fabric Tuesday. Some amazing work has been posted. Hop on over when you get the chance.

I hope you guys are having a wonderful day!

~ January ~

My WIP

      I was at the store the other day scouring the magazine rack when my eye fell upon this gem. I snatched it up and couldn't wait to get home and read it! 

It has a wide range of projects in it. Starting out with Kitchen & Dining it goes onto Quilts, Gifts & Accessories, Bags & Totes and Home Decor. I really want to do almost every project in this publication. The first one I picked out was this fabulous Table Runner.

My Mom said how much she loved this and would love it in Reds and Purples. Reds and Purples it is with some Gray thrown in the mix.

Here it is up on my design wall.

 This was a fast project and was fun and easy sewing.

 

 I had asked a couple of girlfriends what they thought about the colors choices and they each told me what they didn't particularly like. I axed a few, but decided to keep these. I really love the way it's coming together at this point.

 

 Here it is all quilted! I still have to bind it and so it's still a WIP, but I love the way it turned out!!

 I did some Echo Quilting for the first time and really Love it! I can't wait to get the binding on it!!

I'm linking up to W.I.P Wednesday and can't wait to see what everyone is working on. Have a great Wednesday and if you haven't' signed up for my giveaways stop on over :)