My table topper is FINISHED and I am absolutely, positively LOVIN' IT. If you read my previous post, you know that in an attempt to wash off a stain with a slightly damp cloth, I started the fruit colors running onto the white. I just about DIED! I did, however, think fast and quickly stuck the topper into a washer full of cold water, with a Color Catcher and used a tiny bit of quilt soap to wash it. Whew! That was CLOSE! However, the stain is gone...as is the fading of the blue onto the white!
I am so thrilled with the look of this table topper and the fact that I based the design on the teeny bit of free fruit fabric I had on hand. I find that using only what I have on hand really leads to some WONDERFUL creative designs. Additionally, all of the other fabric was free as well...and the batting was left over from a previous quilt. My kind of project!!!
I even love the back of this table topper. And I love the post washing "crinkle" of the quilted piece.
I do still have small amounts of different types of food fabrics and may make this topper again in brighter orange and yellow fruit fabric. It won't match my blue and burgundy kitchen, but it will sure spell SUMMER!
It's beautiful, Lin. You really have a talent for this.
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Thank you, RR!
ReplyDeleteVery, very, nice Lin. As RR says you really have a talent for quilting.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Thank you, Jackie! I am having such FUN trying to make things with what I have on hand. Really makes me put on my thinking cap!
DeleteNo wonder you love this little tabletopper... it's so pretty. I love everything thing about it... the fabric, the quilting and those four little prairie points are such a fun touch!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much! I started with so little fabric that at the end of piecing all I had left were a few 2.5" squares and the triangles cut off when making my snowball blocks. I decided that four of the five 2.5" squares could be used to make prairie points. Only five small squares were not enough for much else. I'm so glad that was all I had left, or I would not have thought of using prairie points! Necessity really is the mother of invention!
DeleteIt's a beauty!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Kate!
DeleteCongrats with this finish. It is a beauty and your quilting is amazing!!!! You have all the rights to be proud.
ReplyDeleteLove from Amsterdam.
Thank you!
DeleteThis is absolutely stunning! I just love the colors. It is so amazing that it was frugal too, using what you had on hand. I love seeing something wonderful out of so little. Good job Lin!! A real inspiration. Carrie W.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Carrie! I have come to LOVE creating with what I have on hand! Granted, sometimes you do have to pick up a thing or two in order to finish a project, but it is so much more enjoyable to work with less. Any child can color a tree with a set of 64 Crayola crayons, but with only red, blue and yellow they will learn to combine blue and yellow in different proportions to make the different shades of green found in a tree! And their tree will be truly unique. Guess I am just a "kid" at heart! LOL!
DeleteIt is lovely.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much, Sandra!
DeleteSo sweet, love the quilting on it. Glad you got the stain and the fabric run out.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Sue. It is now gracing the center of my kitchen table. Hope it keeps me motivated to keep the junk mail off of the table, lol.
DeleteIt's lovely...and your quilting is awesome!!!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much!
DeleteBeautiful! You are smart to keep those color catchers handy.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much! Oh yes, I have come to LOVE color catchers! I need to buy another box as I had purchased the smallest box possible to "give them a try". They are definitely "keepers"!!
DeleteVery pretty! I really like the colors. And yes, I have found color catchers to be so valuable!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much!
DeleteLove the colors and the pattern! What are the dimensions?
ReplyDeleteI can't honestly remember now if it is 17 or 18 inches square, leaving a nice amount of wood showing when I place it diagonally in the center of my table.
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