Getting there

I added the borders to the runner.

I may say it's an extended size placemat?

I was originally thinking about

putting just a strip of border,

rather than either pieced or

adding the corner stones.

Then I saw this one,

and I kind of liked it that way, too.

And as I was shopping the border fabric

at my LQS yesterday,

Dee suggested to add the cornerstones

with the hourglass blocks.

I thought that is a farbulous idea!!

But the sad thing was

I only purchased enough fabric to

make just simple strip borders

which are 3" wide, not with the cornerstones

with the hourglass bloks

which are 4" finish blocks...

I could have gone with the 3" cornerstone

blocks, which are a little smaller than

the rest?

Anyhow, my mind got all excited about

such a great idea and didn't quite

think further about the changes need to be make

of how much fabric I really needed.

It was totally at my fault.

Ughhhhhhhh!!!!!

I could have just used

simple strips as the borders all way down,

but now my mind got caught by

more creativities with some

touch of personality.

So what I came up with was

to piece some other fabric

at the end of each border.

Than again, the fabric I liked to use

was from the Fat 8th bundle...

Yes, again, my favorite Fat 8th bundle.

It didn't really go far enough.

Can you tell that? lol

That's how the way I had to add

the red stripes like that in the pictures.

So that's the story behind this runner

and I need to keep going to

finish this so that I can use it for

our dinner tonight!

Now, all I need is someone

 who can cook our dinner for tonight

 while I finish making this.

Is that a fair deal?

Any volunteer for that??

 

-- Posted from my iPhone