And a cushion for luck

I finished the bed runner and thought it looked a bit strange on its own, so I whipped up a little cushion to go with it with the scraps and bits left over.

Nearly there!

Ok my last post was in draft for two weeks after being on holiday for my grandads/husbands big birthdays - born exactly 50 years apart in the same day.
But I finally sat down to the runner again this weekend after really missing it.

Its looking pretty!

I finished the top of the runner yesterday, hibernating in my sewing (spare) room most of last Saturday afternoon and evening, but I'm really proud of how it turned out in the end :)I added some trimmed grey bias tape as flat piped edging (thanks to this great video tutorial)

The piping was re-ironed pre made bias tape and I sewed it using the needle slightly right to centre to minimise the seams & it worked really well I think.

Not the dirty kind of stripping

The complicated part of the runner is finished! Once I got all the measurements right it all fit together with little problems along the way. Had a few times where the pinwheels were larger than the blanks but with a bit of careful pining, I minimised the pleat effects and got them together.
Here's what I did:

All the squares were sewn in strips according to the grand plan, if any overlapped with a large square pinwheel, I left them as much as strips as possible, sewing any single rows together and then onto the large squares (if that makes any sense!)

My weekend in pictures

Whites cut and all planned	Horrible Wasp sting on my thumb
I made French Macarons - Successfully!	Mmm Spicy Sausage and Bean Stew for Sunday Dinner

All better now