I had a much better sewing day yesterday. I had my husband snap a photo to show that I really can do it. Excuse the no makeup and funny expression. This was about the eighth photo he took, as he kept chopping off my head and I was getting impatient with the poor man.
I went back to my Hallo Harvest kit by BasicGrey. I had bought the kit, which features a quilt with four rows of five blocks each. I knew I didn't want to make an entire quilt from it, but rather three table runners. One for me, one for my daughter Sara and one for my (ex) son in-law Ryan (he's the biggest fan of my work).
One row makes a great table runner size. I didn't measure but if I had to guess I'd say it is about 18 x 48". I had made three blocks some time back, so it was pretty easy to make two more blocks and get something accomplished that I was happy with. How about that white bat? Don't you love it?
Oh my goodness, thank you all so much for all the encouraging words yesterday. You guys are so great. What encouragement you gave me! It made me turn my thinking around about the Hocus Pocus table runner with no contrast. My daughter Sara says she loves it as it is, so I will have it quilted (with green thread) and hope that once the batting and backing are on it, the look of it will be improved. Sara works in marketing and says she thinks the photo on the pattern cover was filtered to make the colors look more saturated. It is commonly done. Since I used the exact same fabrics as shown on the pattern cover my result should have looked identical to it. Lesson learned.
Time to get these all sent off to the quilter so I get them back by fall.