DIY Drop Cloth Ruffled Table Runner

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend.  Today's project has been on my "to do" list for a while now.

  Let me preface my saying this project is not complete...but more on that at the end.

I bought this canvas drop cloth a while ago just for such a project.

I started by cutting a strip 23" wide by 54" long.
I folded it in half and sewed it together making a tube.
I basically followed this tutorial found here.

I made the ruffles and sewed them into the pocket on either end.

Now what I really want to do is add a French graphic like this one from the Graphics Fairy.  

Last night I searched for tutorials on how to transfer onto fabric and found about five different methods.  

Have you ever transferred a graphic?

What is the best way?

Don't forget to stop by for my Novica $75 giveaway.  

-Judy

Drop Cloth Pillow

Welcome to Day 2 of the Blog Block Party.

Today's party is being hosted by My Uncommon Slice of Surburbia and it's a drop cloth link party.

I still have drop cloth "fabric"  left over after my Craigslist makeover.  You can check out that transformation here.

Friday was my birthday and my kids got me a Silhouette machine.  I have been wanting one for almost a year now and haven't been able to win one on any blog giveaways.  Lol.  When I opened it I was doing a happy dance.

 I started by creating an easy stencil with my new Silhouette machine.

I wanted to make a super easy pillow with very little sewing.  If you can sew two straight lines, you can make this pillow.  My pillow insert was 14"x24".  I cut my drop cloth (using the finished edge as my short edge) to a single measurement of 28 1/2" x 24".  The 28 1/2" = 14" times 2 plus 1/2" seam.  allowance.  I folded the fabric in half, wrong sides together,  leaving only two edges to sew.

Once I was done sewing I was left with a pillow with three edges closed (the folded edge and the two sewed edges).  I turned it back to the right side.

I took a magazine and inserted it  into the pillow so that I would have something to lean on when I traced my stencil.

I traced it using a pencil first.

Then using a paint pen (and keeping the magazine in between the fabric), I colored my pencil lines in, being careful to keep within the lines.

To close the pillow all I did was cut six equal lengths of grosgrain ribbon and sew three on each edge spaced equally.  This ribbon is from an Ann Taylor Loft bag I had in the house.  You know I love using ribbon from store bags.  Check out this project from my daughter's room.

In less than twenty minutes I have a new pillow cover...ala Pottery Barn.

Don't forget to stop back tonight at 8pm EST when I will kick off my part of the blog block party with outdoor cooking and dining.  The party will be in lieu of my weekly Swing into Spring party and will be the official start of my summer parties.  There will be an awesome giveaway!!

Hope to see you then.

-Judy