Quite awhile ago Elizabeth asked if I would make her something with a specific fabric that she had found. Of course it was a fabric that was absolutely right for her – Live Laugh Love with jars of daisies!

I ordered the fabric online and, because I wasn’t sure what I’d be making, I ordered several yards. Once it arrived and I began planning the table runner I was going to make I realized I needed a coordinating fabric – daisies of course ordered from the same company.

I wanted the Live Laugh Love sentiment to show no matter which side of the table you were on so I split it down the middle, added the daisies in the middle and sewed it up with the writing going in opposite directions.

I had some fabric in my stash that seemed the perfect colour to match the jars of daisies but there wasn’t enough of it for backing so I decided it would be my binding. I had some other turquoise fabric that would work, but the binding colour wouldn’t be right when put right up against it. So I added a couple of daisy borders and voila!

I did some very simple straight-line quilting but, following my free-motion class, I did a few circles around the heads of the daisies.

There is lots more fabric left so this particular project has been called Live Laugh Love #1 – there will be more to follow.