So essentially, I cut out the elephant panels from a swath of wax batik (making sure that each person at the end of the runner had an elephant right-side-up), framed it out with some colorful fabric I got a long time ago in South Africa, and did some simple quilting to frame out the elephants. I bound it in some funky mottled orange cotton, and bob's your uncle!
Hope she enjoys this reminder of some of her travels--- and thanks for the fun fabric, Susan! :)