Spring Chicken

I have finished my first experiment with table cloth for the Table Cloth Challenge; and “Spring Chicken” is the result of a fun Sunday afternoon playing with beautiful fabric, a Japanese Bird and some scraps.
When ironing the fabulous orange table cloth, I discovered that it was not cotton, but hand woven linen; it says so on the label. Sometimes it’s hard to tell until it’s ironed, you know.-)

It was not suitable for rotary cutting, so I used scissors; picked a thread to follow, and tried to cut along it. I absolutely love how the different textures go together.


I a am bit ahead regarding the challenge, wanting to show some examples of what you can do and how you can use the cloths. I have posted the step by step process for this pillow here to show one way to work with loosely woven fabric.


So, if you have some old table cloths lying around (coffee stained or not) sign up for the challenge and put them to use! Narrow table cloths that does not fit anything? Make them into pillows or table runners. Coffee stains? Cover them with appliqué. Gory or boring colours? Dye it or add fabric paint! Rough fabric makes wonderful backgrounds, embroidered motifs can be pieced into or appliquéd onto anything – the cloths don’t do much good just lying there anyway, right?

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I’ll be posting more of my experiments in the upcoming weeks.