Two Birds... What to do with them?

You're probably wondering what I mean by two birds... Love birds?  In the hand??  Bush??  Killing them with one stone?? 

Yeah - birds have been around...  In this case, I'm killing two birds with one stone.  They very well could be love birds, as this is for a wedding gift! 

But it's also for my sewing group challenge!  At the last sewing meeting in May or June, someone was giving away a bunch of sample books of fabric.  Some decorator, some just frilly curtain samples, some silky stuff.  The challenge was to see what creative things we would all do with what we took.  And there was a lot to choose from from the free table that day with these samples...

Monday, mid afternoon, I finally got some time (from a three day weekend) to get some sewing done.  Maddy had blown into the room and said, HEY!  Let's all 3 of us make headbands!!!  So Mads, Mer and I went and dug through my stash to get inspired for headbands.  The girls picked out some decorator fabric and I came across a booklet of samples all stapled together that happened to be from the group challenge.  cool... 

Although Meri told me later that she had taken those samples...  and she wanted them back...  Ummm.. They're already into a project....  So nope!

You know a couple weeks ago, I was going to make a Christmas tree skirt for my nephew and his bride's wedding in October...  The red stuff I'd pulled out that I was going to make it with just wasn't working...  So I decided to try it with these new fabric bits instead.  Out of each sample, I cut the same sized square and then cut them in half, making little stacks of the various fabric on my table. 

Sewed them together end to end and made 4 long strips.  The iron was HOT!  After seeing that I didn't have enough for a tree skirt, I changed my gears and aimed for a table runner instead.    Staggered the sections so you wouldn't see that they're not all EXACTLY the same size and wouldn't have to fit corners to corners...  I kind of suck at that...

Backed it with some denim that wrapped around to make a border and it's done!  One wedding gift...  Ready for the challenge in a couple weeks and for a wedding in a couple months!  Whew!  Plus it gave my creative bits a workout!

I needed that....

It's for a long table apparently...  Robb thought it was a skinny quilt for my nephew.  He's very slender...

:)  I needed a laugh too...