Hello there! I’ve been very excited to have finally made time to create a hand embroidered French Dot Constellation Table Runner (https://www.designsponge.com/2013/04/embroidery-101-french-dot-constellation-runner.html) by Miniature Rhino (a free download on Design*Sponge). This is a hand embroidered linen table runner utilizing sequins and embroidery knots to mimic stars and constellations in the night sky.

I wanted to note up front that the Design*Sponge website is going to be archived in September of 2020. At that point, the website is supposed to be available as a full archive in the future through the Library of Congress (linked in the future). If your interested to create this project yourself, go now and check out the link now while the pattern download is still on the Design*Sponge website and save a copy of the pattern for your own future reference (just in case there’s a delay between the archive process through the Library of Congress). Knowing the September 2020 date is coming in the near future motivated me to create this project for this post (and I’m so glad I did).

For the fabric, I picked a really nice dark navy linen from Minerva. I mimicked the fabric used in the sample and love that aspect of recreating the night sky. When I washed and dried the fabric, it did bleed a bit onto a lighter fabric that I washed with it. I didn’t notice any fading but I wouldn’t wash this fabric with light colors on a warm temperature setting in the washing machine.

Supplies

Miniature Rhino’s Constellation pattern on Design Sponge (http://www.designsponge.com/2013/04/embroidery-101-french-dot-constellation-runner.html?epik=dj0yJnU9LXRZWWQzb0lGZ2VpbFZreWJiZjhJQmpYdGhVaGtwRmgmbj1OTjBEalFveGxsYTJDMjNCR3BVYi1RJm09MyZ0PUFBQUFBRjE2ZHV3)

1.8m, Honduras Plain Pure Linen Dress Fabric, Navy

2, DMC Stranded Cotton Embroidery Thread, 3866

1, Craft Factory Round Cup Sequins, Silver, 5mm

1, Craft Factory Round Cup Sequins, Silver, 8mm

90/14 Universal needle

Beeswax

Embroidery needle

Embroidery scissors

Embroidery hoop (pattern recommends 12” size)

Marking stylus

Clover Tracing Carbon Paper Chacopy

Clover cutting mat

Iron / Sewing pins

Fabric Edges:

The pattern calls for a length of fabric that is 15” x 72”. I debated on sewing a backing to the table runner or leaving the back unfinished. With the time involved to stitch the embroidery pattern I decided to quickly serge the edges of the fabric for a quick finishing option. If I need to fix something that needs repair in the design in the future, with the back unfinished I can easily make repairs.

I had two smaller cuts of fabric that I serged together. I sewed a straight line on top of the seam to reinforce the serged seam. The seam is hidden in the design and allowed me to use two smaller pieces of fabric for the 72” length.

With the width of the table runner only being 15”, you will have fabric leftover for another project.

Continued in my next post...

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