{"id":1449,"date":"2011-05-23T15:26:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T22:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/23\/bed-runner\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T12:08:37","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T20:08:37","slug":"bed-runner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/23\/bed-runner\/","title":{"rendered":"Bed runner"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Not too long ago, I made a Winding Ways<\/a> quilt for our bed. That quilt is pretty big, so laundering it will be a major undertaking. That wouldn’t be a huge consideration, except that Bisou really does like to sleep at the foot of the bed, and I have to admit that I like her to do so. \ud83d\ude09 The solution was to make a bed runner to cover the foot of the bed; the runner will be a lot simpler to wash when needed! This one was made from a layer cake of Moda fabrics in similar colors to what was in the quilt; I cut each square in half diagonally and then cut off a couple of strips from the long edge and simply mixed  up all of the strips. The first photo gives you an idea of how that worked.<\/p>\n

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After joining all of the blocks, the next step, of course, was to quilt the runner. Once again I resorted to feathers. What a surprise, right? \ud83d\ude09 This time I outlined an oval with pointed ends in each block, then put the feathers along that outline. You may be able to see that better from the back of the runner. I pieced the back, by the way, from the unused squares from the layer cake.<\/p>\n

I finished the binding yesterday and then washed the bed runner and put it on the bed. I think Bisou approves, since she climbed right up and made herself at home. \ud83d\ude09 What do you think?<\/p>\n

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Not too long ago, I made a Winding Ways quilt for our bed. That quilt is pretty big, so laundering it will be a major undertaking. That wouldn’t be a huge consideration, except that Bisou really does like to sleep at the foot of the bed, and I have to admit that I like her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[299],"tags":[275,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-1449","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-quilting","8":"tag-bed-runner","9":"tag-feathers","10":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Bed-runner-1.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-nn","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1452,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/12\/where-did-the-time-go\/","url_meta":{"origin":1449,"position":0},"title":"Where did the time go?","author":"Sandy","date":"May 12, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I can't believe it's been almost a month since my last post! 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