Hello all! I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving! Ours was filled with too much good food, and way too many delicious desserts. It's always so hard to pick which dessert to have, because it's so easy to go overboard with all the sweets!!
Thanksgiving in our family is also time for other celebrations - my mom and sister's birthdays fall around Thanksgiving all the time, and now my brother-in-law's, too! So, every year, we not only have too much food, we have birthdays to celebrate :-)
For my sister this year, I decided to make her a table runner for her new dining room table. Like me, she has some decorations for all the holidays, but nothing for her dining room. So, since handmade is always better, I decided to make her something pretty for her table.
I picked a very fall-like pattern for the runner, with simple accent fabric for panels on the end, and a brown solid for the underside. She could actually use this for all of the fall season if she wanted, since it's not really Thanksgiving specific.
For this pic, I laid it out on my dining room table when it was finished to see how it would look. Cutie, right?!
Here, I folded it over so you can see the underside and the accent panels on the ends. The binding I made myself from the accent fabric, which pulls everything together. I think it turned out better than buying pre-made binding, but I'm sure it would look just as lovely had I chosen a plain color binding to match the fabric.
In case any of you would like to try your hand at one of these awesome handmade runners, the tutorial I used is from Sew4Home, and can be found here. I eliminated the tassels they have on each corner, mostly because I just couldn't be bothered with them.
That's all I have for today! Will you be making anything special for friends or family this holiday?
Much love ~~
