Tuesday 26 June 2012

Green, Blue and Purple

Do you remember my in-between projects post? Well I've started work on one of them :) My friend asked me to make the runner with green, blue and purple fabrics. Those of you who are on the ball will realise those are the same colours I used for my own table runner. I was keen to use different fabrics for this one, so I decided to go with brighter, cleaner colours this time rather than the 'murky' colours in my one. Side note - is there a 'nice' way of saying murky?! 

Here's what I came up with:


I love how I just about have enough of a stash now that I can create something new and different with fabrics I already own. In order these fabrics have been used for:
- Decorating a notice board
- Oven gloves
- Own table runner
- Lots of things (I have a bit of a thing for beige, is that weird?)
- Not much yet, but looking forward to using it lots
- Own table runner
- Border on one of the twins' quilts

I also picked up some white, sqiggly ribbon (which is apparently called ric-rac or rick-rack) to use between some of the stripes. I love the idea of having some white in this runner to brighten it up. Idea from here.


Here's how it's looking so far. I'm really excited about how this is going to turn out!


Linking up to Work In Progress Wednesday (which seems to have arrived a day early!)

WIP Wednesday at Freshly Pieced

10 comments:

  1. I think the ric rac will be a nice dimensional touch. Love the colors.

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    1. Thanks Amy :) I'm amazed that you crocheted a Despicable Me minion - awesome idea!

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  2. The ric rac is a fabulous idea - I may need to try that sometime.

    Thanks for linking up to WIP Wednesday and have a great week!

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    1. Thanks Felicity :) And thanks for hosting!

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  3. Taking shape nicely, love the ric rac! Isn't it great when you can mix and match your fabrics and make something on impulse!?

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    1. Definitely :) I'm looking forward to my stash diversifying over time - at the moment I can pretty much only make green, blue or purple things on impulse!

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  4. It looks like this runner is going to be super cute! I love your pins background!

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    1. Thanks Claire Jain :) Congrats on your 100th post, your quilts are beautiful. I've just hit 15 posts, got a way to go yet :P

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  5. that ric rac looks so pretty

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    1. Thanks Leslie :) I've just been drooling over your Ruby quilt, it's really lovely. Love that line, must get some sometime

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