Dresser Runner - #14 June 2013

The Quilt By Association quilt guild was having a challenge for the July meeting that was a small item with a patriotic theme.  We also had to have something 3D and use half square triangles.

For my item, I created a dresser runner for Dale for Father's Day.  I did enjoy the fact that this project completed two tasks - Father's Day gift for Dale and entry into the QBA challenge.

My 3D part was the piped binding that I have been doing.  I was also using up fabric and I did not have enough of one color of fabric for the outside of the binding so I mixed the light and dark blue solid fabric to make the binding.  I thought it looked fine.

I colored with crayons on canvas, heat set the crayons, then used acrylic paint to put the boys' handprints and footprints on the canvas.

Dillon's hands and feet were still small enough that he could fit both pairs of prints on one piece of canvas.

 

Keegan is already bigger so he had a piece of canvas for his feet and another piece of crayoned canvas for his handprints.

The quilting machine didn't mind quilting through canvas.  But the thread didn't like it much.  I used a poly thread but it still frayed from moving through the canvas.  And there was a lot of stuff on the canvas for the thread to go through.  The thread actually probably broke less than should have been anticipated.

I tried to use positive and negative quilting to write words in the fabric.  It did not show up at all on the front because the thread that I used matched perfectly with the batik fabric.  Here is a picture of the back.  I did not find how to reverse the picture in the photo editing software I was using and I really didn't feel like spending too much time on photo editing.

 

 

When I gave Dale the dresser runner, he said he thought it was nice but he had no idea where he was going to put it.  He was very happy when I showed him where the dresser runner was going to live.