Table Runners

Hello 90 degree Monday. Wish I could be bathing in your warmth but once again I am at work. (I must have a job. I must have a job. I must have a job.) This past weekend Joe and I made the trek home. Saturday my Mom, Sadie and I ran a few errands. We picked up some goodies for our dessert table and found Sadie a few grad picture outfits. I even picked up a few summery things for the honeymoon:)

After my Mom and I spent about two hours cutting fabric for the table runners. A half hour into our drive on Friday I realized I forgot my camera so I only have a few pictures of some of the fabric. But before I show you those, let me back up since this project has taken a couple weeks so far to get to even this point.

I wanted to do something to our dinner tables to give the room a bit more color. We're having white table cloths, white napkins, mason jars with white candles, white Christmas lights....you see where I'm going with this? I love white and all but we needed something else for that "pop" of color. I've seen a few weddings use table runners and thought it might be the way to go. I've also gone back and forth on only having one pattern for all the tables or if I should mix it up a bit (second guessing myself yet again!). Let me tell you, finding enough fabric for 39 tables is hard enough finding them in all sorts of patterns so we have lots of styles. The first fabric stop I made a few weekends ago was with Kelly and we ventured into Hancock Fabrics. They had a sale going on so I was able to get all but one fabric at 50% off. I purchased five different patterns each at 2 2/3 yards which would give me three runners for five tables.

Then last Tuesday, I went to a fabric warehouse in Brooklyn Park called SR Harris. It's a 30,000 sq. foot building filled with everything fabric related. Literally, shelves were filled with fabric up to the ceiling. They had cotton, silk, polyester, leather and I could go on and on. Jill, my coworker went with me and thank goodness she did because she knew her way around the store, what would be good for runners and also has a good eye for what works and what doesn't. I couldn't find a true navy without action figures or musical instruments on it surprisingly but I managed to get seven different patterns of all shades of blue consisting of polka dots, flowers, stripes and many more patterns. Plus, everything was 50% off again!! Gotta love a sale!

My Mom and I got them ready to hand off to my Grandma who is going to use her sewing magic and hem up the sides for me a bit. I will warn you, I am not the straightest of cutters so if you see them, the edges may be a little wonky. Oh well:)

Sunday before we left Joe and I had our first pre-marital counseling session! It was a little different than I expected because our Pastor did most of the talking and we didn't really have to share our thoughts too much. We took a personality test, well a small portion of one and confirmed once again how opposite Joe and I truly are. He's a thinker and I'm a feeler. No big surprise there. We are meeting up with him again next week in Hinckley since he had to reschedule from our other weekend in June. I'm thinking we'll have to do more of the talking next time.