A little imperfect perfection

The summer holidays are coming to an end, with the children excitedly anticipating the start of a new school year on Wednesday. Our youngest will be spreading his tiny wings a little too when he starts at playschool, so life is ringing in a few significant changes for our household. I haven't done any sewing since the kidlets broke up for the summer, as I wanted to spend as much time with them as possible before the balmy summer days make way for the cold, crisp confines of autumn  and winter skies. So, like a race horse I have been chomping at the bit to get back in the saddle of my trusty Elna! I wanted to sew a little something that I could start and complete in as little time as possible, something to ease me back into sewing mode! I am not a very patient person, and as a result I don't always enjoy long, drawn out projects which take weeks on end to complete!

Our dining table has been looking a bit sad and neglected...It's so easy to use it as a dumping space for anything and everything that needs to be put away 'later'... So, I figured that if I dress it a little better, then maybe, just maybe I'd be more inclined to keep it looking lovely and tidy. What it needed was a pretty table runner to cheer it up! I'm a big fan of the lovely Tiff  at Dottie Angel, and am partial to a little 'granny chic' myself.  Armed with my favourite leftovers fabric scraps, doilies, lace and a little vintage loveliness, I set to work an made my very own table runner, one I'd like to call 'a little imperfect perfection'. The trick with this project was to not over think things! I tend to do that...One sometimes has to get in touch with ones inner child, the part of oneself that can piece together a naive collage of sweetness and innocence with a free mind and an open heart. This is quite tricky for someone like myself who suffers from 'perfectly-measured-and-drafted-control-freak syndrome'...

Anyhow, I thoroughly enjoyed making this crazy patchwork of random thoughts and cheerfulness. The dinner table looks happier...

Linen, covered in lace, doilies, yummy fabric scraps and vintage loveliness...sewn together in a rather haphazard fashion...

 

Vintage buttons for added cheer...

 

Butterflies and birds...

 

 

 

Vintage handkerchiefs...♥

A very happy, cheery little patch of sweetness...

The wonderful thing about a little project like this, is that even if you 'don't know how to sew', you could make it! And make it beautifully! I urge you to have a go, and if you do, spread some cheer and post a note to let me know you've done so! The only rule is: 'There are no rules!' That's the fun of making something that is so imperfectly perfect!

Have a fabby-dabby-doo week!
Tania ♥