A ‘PERKY’ TABLE RUNNER

Sometimes being a pattern tester has ‘perks’ 

besides getting great patterns. 

For instance, fabric!

Corinne Wells of Frannie B Quilt Company

Designed a new line called ‘Elegance’. 

She reached out to her testers and asked if we could turn around 

a quick project using her new fabric line. 

I committed  to make a table runner and really 

loved the mustard colors in this line. 

Corrine sent me these fat quarters. 

I looked thru my patterns, quilt books, Pinterest for inspiration.

Found this pattern by Nancy Zieman.

The heartbeat idea didn’t do anything for me..

but I could figure a design that would be my style. 

We could only use solids or blenders to keep

her fabric line the star.   

I pulled these together.

A GRUNGE became my blender

And the cutting began 

I changed the pattern design to my liking. 

Making one continuous strip across vs the heart beat chart look!

A Denyse Schmidt stash fabric became the backing.  

I liked the was it was coming together. 

QUICKLY!

QAYG (quilt as you go) never disappoints me.

It’s just lovely!

The gold/mustard GRUNGE was perfect 

for the binding. 

This will look great this fall on my dining room table.

Now the hunt is on for the green and mustard pumpkins.