Relentlessly Gay

The thing with precut fabrics, like jelly rolls, is if you use them to make several smaller projects you end up with things that look kind of the same. Especially when you are a beginner sticking to straight lines! So here are more rainbows, made from the not-quite-half a panel left from another project. These are bound in black, and I'm sure you will agree with me that BLACK IS SO MUCH BETTER, oh yes it is :D

I liked these so much I posted them to my Facebook page. Purely to show off, you understand. Then one friend wanted to buy one. Then another friend wanted the other. Both claimed within an hour of posting, and I am no longer in possession of either runner!

Also on Facebook, a message from a cheeky friend.  At the time there was a story trending about a lady who had prettied up her yard with coloured lanterns, who received an anonymous letter outraged at her décor which was deemed 'relentlessly gay'. Gasp. In a 'Christian' neighbourhood- double gasp. Won't somebody please think of the children???  I do find this sort of extremist behaviour ridiculous- whatever ones personal beliefs you can't catch 'the gay' from jauntily coloured lanterns, and isn't the rainbow covenantal anyway? Pffft. Anyway, to come back to my runners, hmmm, these remind me of something, said the friend. And thus they became the 'relentlessly gay table runners'. Cue much hilarity as I was explaining to friend 2 that I would charge her less for the second runner because it wasn't as straight as the first, well you get the idea.

Anyway, I like rainbows and I shall be making lots more relentlessly gay stuff with pride (see what I did there? Didja? oh go away...) but probably not for a while as that was the end of my jelly roll and I have other fabric to use up.

Taxman, take note. Yes, I sold two runners. Mother and I are keeping notes of our expenditure, and if it ever looks like accounts may be in the plus side of the line, we'll let you know, OK? But given the price of the machine itself, not to mention the extortionate cost of materials and other sundries, I can assure you there would have to be an awful lot of gay tables out there before we made any sort of profit. Just sayin'.