Christmas Project

I have discovered this wonderful technique called French Braid quilting in Jane Hardy Miller's book - French Braid Quilts. I bought the book and just had to try out the technique. I displayed this trial piece, which I made into a table runner, at the workshop and now a group of us are going to make Christmas table runners later this month. The trick is getting a nice center fabric with enough pattern and colour to bring the whole thing together, and then finding enough co-ordinating fabrics to do the run of colours.
This picture is up for inspiration to the ladies who are going to make one.
As with all the pictures, if you click on the picture it should open up in another window much larger so you can see a detail of the fabrics.

Table runner and placemat.

The runner is 64" long and 15" wide, which I feel is too wide. The placemat is about 12.5" x 16".

Can you believe this is the same fabrics? Different lighting, less red. It looks a little lumpy because I have just pinned the binding, it is not sewn yet. Very green looking. See you Wednesday.