Kaffepause.....

As my regular blog followers and friends know, I really enjoy making table runners and I just loved this pattern by Bente Malm so you can imagine how excited I was a few weeks ago when this arrived in the post from Lappe-Elisa in Sweden - "Kaffepause" (coffee break) - a pattern and material pack to make a runner, placemats and mug rugs......

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.....lots of strip-piecing was involved - I decided to get all the piecing done first. I've made a runner for the dining table, six placemats AND there was enough fabric leftover for a smaller runner for the coffee table in the lounge.....

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.....this extra-wide fabric (Peace on Earth, by 3 Sisters for Moda) was leftover from a previous quilting project. I had bought this fabric from my local quilt shop, Quilters Haven, ages ago, and had enough for the backing of both runners and the placemats. It is a gorgeous brown tonal floral print.....

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.....I used my favourite wadding, a fusible pellon, which I fused to the backing fabric, then spray basted the runner top to the pellon with a few squirts of 505 adhesive spray.....

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.....the runner was quilted using a very simple technique known as "stitch-in-the-ditch" and I used a brown Mettler quilting thread, shade 712.....

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.....finally the appliqued leaves - no, I couldn't be bothered to do this by hand, life is too short!! My Bernina is very good at machine applique thank goodness! I used steam-a-seam lite to apply the leaves before appliqueing them in place with a buton-hole stitch.....

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....I really like this contemporary design and neutral colourway.....

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.....and even finished with a flourish ;)

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