I got me some stripes!

Remember when I mentioned that I would LOVE a striped rug?  Well, that's not gonna happen anytime soon so I went for the next best thing, a striped table runner!

I visited IKEA and used a gift card to purchase 3 yards of black and white striped fabric.

I wanted my table runner to have LOTS of stripes going all the way down the table instead of a few stripes spanning the length of the table (we will pretend that made sense and you are following me:)) So in order to make that happen I had to whip out my trusty sewing machine and get to work. 

I cut two pieces of fabric.  Imagine EXACTLY two pieces just like the one above in the sample photo. I pinned them together so that I would have enough fabric to make it across the table. 

I ran it through the sewing machine with my rather large looking hand ...

Perfect--or at least, good enough:)  This is what it looked like once I finished sewing.  You cant even see the seem! 

I laid the fabric on my dining room table and decided how long and how thick I wanted the runner to be.  Once I had the length right, I cut the extra fabric off.  Then I folded the fabric in so that I got the right width.  I would sew it- but I change up my fabric runners so often that I might want to use this fabric for something else...so folding it is. 

Only problem with folding is that the edges can be a little "thick" like this...

Trusty iron to the rescue.  

See... much flatter!

Here she is!  All finished!

All dolled up... Just need some white candles for my jars...they are lookin' a little bare at the moment. 

There you go!  Fashioning some fabric into a make-shift table runner.  I am in LOVE with my stripes!

Carolyn