Ruffled Burlap Table Runner

I've been wanting to make a burlap table runner with pretty white ruffles for a while now.  Thinking it would be perfect spring, I jumped on the blogland burlap bus and got to work.

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This was a crazy easy project.  Pretty cheap too-- about $10.

I started by cutting the burlap.  I wanted it to hang over the edge of our dining room table so I cut it to size.  Speaking of cutting burlap, do you know the trick to cutting burlap?  No?  Well you're in luck because I paid attention when the JoAnn Fabric lady cut mine, and I learned the trick.

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Tadah!

Then I got to work on the ruffles.  I bought a yard of white muslin and cut two 5 inch strips.  But after making one ruffle I realized that one yard wasn't enough.  Drats.  So I headed back to JoAnn's and bought 3 yards of white muslin and cut two 5 inch strips.  Again.

I grabbed a needle and thread and started a running stitch.  You can skip the needle and thread, and do this with your sewing machine.  However, mine needs to be serviced so needle and thread it was.

I pulled the thread to bunch up the fabric, making the ruffles.  I used an end of my runner to be sure that my ruffle was the correct length.  I planned on sewing the ruffle to the burlap but the impatient side of me came out, and I decided to go with my trusty hot glue gun.  I put a dot of glue every inch or so.  It worked perfectly.

I'm not gonna lie, the ruffle on the other side of the table hasn't been made... yet.  I was losing sunlight when I took these photos yesterday.  Priorities.

What do you think of my St. Patrick's Day centerpiece display?  I kept some thrifty hurricanes from our wedding, so I pulled them out and threw in some candles and split peas.

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Have you taken a ride on the blogland burlap bus?  What'd ya make?

Are you decorating for St. Patrick's Day, or do you skip to spring?