Monday 5 December 2016

Poinsettia Table Runner

Those of you who follow my blog will know that since I have been trying to improve my free motion quilting, I found and now follow Lori Kennedy's blog 'The Inbox Jaunt'.  Lori recently hosted a Sunflower Sampler Quilt-A-Long, which was a lot of fun and I have already showed you the two Sunflower quilts that I made following along.



After her final post for the Sunflower QAL Lori posted about another quilt she had made using a Poinsettia as the central motif instead of a Sunflower.... perfect for Christmas.... and she encouraged her readers to have a go at the Poinsettia motif.



Her tutorial for the Poinsettia is here and, if you go and have a look you will see that at the end of the tutorial she suggests that these motifs would look great on a table runner.  Well, as I wanted to try the Poinsettia motif but already had the two Sunflower quilts, I decided that I would make myself a Poinsettia table runner for Christmas instead of another wall quilt.



As you can see, I quilted three Poinsettias in the middle of the runner, quilted in the ditch around the checked inner border and then added some simple loopy Holly quilting to the outer border.  I am really thrilled with my new table runner.... I loved quilting the Poinsettia design and it is all finished in time for Christmas!  Thank you Lori! 

9 comments:

  1. Eine unglaublich wunderschöne Arbeit, ganz ganz toll gequiltet, ich bin sehr beeindruckt liebe Christine.
    Wünsche dir noch eine schöne Adventwoche.

    Liebe Grüße
    Uta

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  2. Ganz wunderschön. Du bist schon eine richtige Quiltkönigin!

    Gruß Marion

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  3. Yay you for making it for yourself! The poinsettia design is just beautiful. It's a darker red - is it a wine color? Very pretty.

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  4. Gosh , it is beautiful - love it and the holly design round the edge. So clever

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  5. Liebe Christine,
    ich glaube du hast eine neu Berufung gefunden, sieht ganz klasse aus!
    Liebe Grüße
    Steffi

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  6. I am in awe at your talents AND how much you get done. Awesome lady. 💟💟💟

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  7. I love the holly border! Is that your own design?

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  8. This is lovely, Chrissie, I expect it looks fab in your house! xx

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  9. Wow! This is a showpiece - good for you!

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