Back in 2016 I purchased this kit for the Flying Santa Tablerunner from Lynette Anderson's stand at the Festival of Quilts, here in the UK. The kit included the pattern, and all the fabrics needed, which were from Lynette's Festive Fun collection. I didn't have time that year to make it, and it was packed away where it has been joined by several other kits and time has sped by rather quickly than I expected! Anyway, a few weeks ago I finally made a start on it. I decided to use a raw edge applique for this project, using one of my favourite products, "Lite Steam-A-Seam 2" for the fusible webbing. I've used Aurifil 50wt thread in colours to match the fabrics, and machined the shapes into place on the background fabric an eighth of an inch inside the raw edge...
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...once all of the applique shapes were stitched in place, I then completed the hand embroidery, using 2 strands of DMC stranded embroidery threads. These tiny buttons from my button tin were perfect for the eyes of the reindeer. The jingly-jangly bells will be stitched in place once the machine quilting is completed...
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...as you can see, I've machine quilted the background very simply, using the lines of the trellis pattern on the fabric as a guide. This meant there were lots of starts and stops, and lots of ends of threads to sew in, but I was really pleased with the finished result. The bells were stitched in place on the reindeer collars as planned...
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...I've used the same fabric for the borders and the binding, and agian the borders have been machine quilted very simply. A narrow single fold binding has been machined in place to the front of the tablerunner, folded over and hand stitched to the back using ladder stitch. I've added a pre-made label to the back of the tablerunner, across one of the corners...
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...these pictures show Santa and his reindeer flying around the tablerunner. The original design has a fringed trimming added between the appliqued centre and the borders, but I wasn't happy with how it looked, so removed it before I quilted the tablerunner..
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...now it is finished, this tablerunner can be packed away ready for Christmas - it's going to look super with a few more decorations on my dining table!
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