Wednesday, May 27th, finally satisfied

Catie spent the summer of 2007 in the Black Hills of South Dakota and we drove out and visited her for a week. She had classes most of the time, so Chuck and I explored the area. We spent a day at Mt. Rushmore, which was a wonderful highlight as I had never been there before.
Of course, I looked for quilt shops. I like to keep my spending for quilt supplies close to home, so when I travel, I ask if there is something unique to that shop that I won't find elsewhere.
They had fabric commissioned for their shop and one of the gals there designed a table runner. It was rather complicated using templates and some paper piecing, but I enjoyed making it. The sample in the shop was tea stained and I loved the look, so I tea stained mine as well. Well, wouldn't you know it, but all of the reds and blues ran into the white!!! I was devastated and it has hung in my laundry room for over a year as I was contemplating throwing it out.
A few weeks ago, I soaked it in Iron Out, which didn't help at all.
Then about a month ago, I found these sheets at Aldi:
The cloth on the left is the one I used and the ones on the right are the fresh ones.
All this to say, I am not ashamed to display this table runner. This week I stippled all of the white sections with variegated red, white and blue thread and it now looks good. I am actually proud of it!!