Midweek Update

It's another week of working on some smaller projects, and I've been making good progress.  I had some time on Monday to pull out the braided tablerunner, and had been thinking I could probably get it prepped for quilting.  But as so often happens, one squirrel led to another, and I ended up spending some time piecing a backing for it.

First I laid out all the leftover strips to see what I had.

I also had a triangle section cut off from squaring the braid up last week, so I started by making it into a square with a triangle of the blue-green backing fabric leftover from Glowing Hearts.

Then I added strips to the top and bottom until it measured about an inch taller on the top and bottom than the front of the runner.

From there it was just a matter of sewing strips together and adding them on to either side of the center until the backing was big enough for the braid.  The whole process took about an hour!

Did this pieced backing use up all the leftover jelly roll strips yet?

Of course not!  🤣  

But this will make a fun (and even reversible) tablerunner!

Come back tomorrow and see what I made for the Christmas in July Blog Hop hosted by Melva at Melva Loves Scraps!

Sharing at The Inquiring Quilter for Wednesday Wait Loss.