Quilt as You Go Table Runner Demo

Here are the materials and tools you will need to make the

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. As you progress along the

table

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, you will need a jelly roll with two and a half inch strips. It can be a 40 piece jelly roll or a 20 piece jelly roll. roll, you are going to use 20 strips for the

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runner

, you will need half a yard of fabric that will be the central square of your jelly roll and you can use that extra that is left over from the half yard. While binding, you will need a full yard of fabric for the backing and you will need 5 8 yards of batting if it comes in a roll that is at least 72 inches wide or a piece that is approximately 72 inches wide. 24. now for the tools, you'll need a rotary cutter and a ruler, you'll need some scissors, you'll probably want a seam ripper, sorry, you'll need a new needle on your machine,

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ing needles are fine, you're going to need thread, you want thread that matches the backing of your fabric, the backing of your quilt and you're going to want thread that matches the binding of your quilt and you're going to want pins and quilting pins you can also use fat quarters for your table runner; you will want a set of five equal fat quarters plus the half yard like the regular quilt or if you have a larger bundle of fat quarters you can use them to make the center piece and all your strips and binding strips, you will still need a full yard of backing and the same amount for the batting, cut the center square of 12 and a half inches and reserve the rest for the binding, take the backing fabric and leave it folded as you have it. from the fabric store and with some good sharp scissors cut along the fold, open your jelly roll and choose which strips you would like to use.

My jelly roll has 40 strips and I have decided that I am going to go more green. and blue, so I'm going to leave out all the pinks for now, maybe I'll make another table runner later and I'll choose between these types. This jelly roll has pairs of two which is great for me, that means I can have a symmetrical table runner that is the same in both directions. I needed to choose 10 pairs or 20 strips and here is my center square. I decided to use these in this color that go from green to dark blue and there are my ten and I ended up eliminating some of these yellowish ones that had pink in them.

I'll save them for my rose later, so I have ten pairs of strips from each pair. I need two 13 and two 15 inch pieces and I'm not going to do that. I'm a little worried about the waste of everything. I'm going to trim my edges. These strips are still folded in half. I trimmed my selvages and I'm going to make a 15 inch one, a strip that cuts two 15 inch pieces and another. The strip cuts two pieces to 13 inches and then I'm going to set these other pieces aside and if you want you can save them and maybe use them for a short binding.

Do this for all the strips. Now all my strips are trimmed so I have two each 13 inches and two 15 inches and if you noticed as I was going, I stacked them in the order I chose so they are ready to sew from the one from the center up If you are using fat quarters, remember to make the cuts parallel to the selvedge so you can get eight strips. If you cut this way with the longer strips perpendicular to the selvedge you will only get seven and not have enough to finish your quilt, our first step in sewing is to assemble the backing piece and here we will use the thread that matches the backing, that is which we will use for all of our sewing until we get to the binding. and I already cut this in half along the fold, if you remember, I'll just turn it over.

I'm lining it up so the edges line up here and I'm going to sew that edge first. I'm going to iron it, okay, I have the backing completely sewn. I ended up turning it over because this end had a cleaner cut and I sewed it with about a half inch of seam allowance, more than a quarter anyway and pressed it open. Now I have a piece that's about 72 inches long by about 20 inches wide and I have a little helper doing the pieron green here, so I'm going to spread this out there, let's go and then I'm going to get my batting from my dad . about to hear her coming, that's about that width, go buddy, pack it up, kid, okay, so I've got it spread out and now I'm going to pin it, I'm not going to pin it, now I'm going to pin it the center everything. okay, I'm going to mark the center and I'm going to do that by looking for where my seam is here, I'm going to mark it there and then I'm going to look at the other end and that's my seam.

I'm going to mark it all the way because it's very important to have the center square pretty straight or it will start to twist, but we have a way to deal with that, but anyway, let's try to get it as straight as possible. So this is 23. I'm going to mark it at 11 and a half and I'm going to use the lines on my ruler. I'm going to line up that line that I made with some of the lines on my ruler here so I can mark it directly, there we go, now I have a big x in the middle and I'm going to use that to place my puppy, careful, honey.

I'm going to use that to place my center square, so I'm going to Place these corners on the horizontal line and these corners here and once it's straight we can set them. Well, I have everything set. I made about four or five pins in the center and then the pins are spaced out quite a bit. Make sure you place them. the corners so the backing doesn't flip over and fight with you later and I trimmed off the excess batting so I had my piece I'm ready to sew once we're ready to start attaching the strips we're going to start with a 13 inch strip and I choose a side that I always tend to opt for, would it be the right side?

I guess if it's in front of me, I take my 13 inch strip first and I line it up with the square part of the square that's in the center and the edge of the border is here and it's aligned with the center and on this edge it sticks out a little bit , is what you want, so you're going to take it there and put a couple of pins in and then we're going to sew now we're on the straight pins. I'm ready to sew. I have threaded most of my fabric here. I'm going to place this on my table so it stays. without dragging down and let's talk about seam allowance for a second.

I'm going to stick my foot in here. A quarter inch seam allowance is great, but not a quarter inch too tight, make it a generous quarter inch so you don't run out of fabric at the end, if it's too tight you won't have enough backing, so let's go a little bit further, so I'm going to do that now, this is in the center of the back of my quilt and I actually care what threads are running on the back of my machine. I know if I start sewing a little knot will form there, so I pulled the top thread out a little bit and I'm going to drop the needle and bring it back up and then I'm going to pull the bobbin thread.

Now I don't have to do anything with these. Now they will just be long and stay inside my quilt. IM not going to do it. to tie them up or anything, it just helps me know that I'm not going to get that nest at the bottom. Now my machine has a little button to raise and lower the needle, if yours doesn't just grab the handwheel here and turn it towards you. until the needle goes all the way down and up, but be sure to hold the upper thread. Let me show you that way too, so hold the top thread, take the steering wheel and turn it towards you until it reaches.

That thread goes up from the body and the bobbin and then you pull it up so that they are both on top. Now I'm just going to do a little reverse stitch, a couple of reverse stitches to hold it in place and that's all I'm going to do. I do and I'm going to sew this now, when I get to the end of the row, I'm just going to sew the edge of the strip, I'm not worried about what's going on with the thread underneath because this part is going to be cut off later, so I'm going to cut it, lift it up and then take it here and press it a little bit.

It is good to have the iron and the ironing surface at hand. I have good wool. Mat that I love, I'm going to take this strip and press it open, press it well to the sides to make sure it's wide open here and then I'll be ready to add my next strip, so here's my existing strip that I just sewed and Now I'm going to take a 15 inch strip of the same color and I'm going to match it to the beginning of this one. Now I find this happens quite a bit. Do you see that where it's like not even I really don't think it matters, it won't matter the end result, just pin your new strip and sew it to that guy, the second strip.

I like to start sewing from the side to keep the same end. quilt on my machine, this part is going to get smaller and smaller, so I'm going to start on the side, so now, in this case, it doesn't matter what's happening to my thread, so I don't have to pull the thread. I'm going to sew here and when I get to the end, this is the part that will be visible on the back of my quilt, so I'm going to do a back stitch and go forward a couple of stitches. and then again I'm doing this with the buttons on my machine but you can do this with the steering wheel.

I'm going to put my needle in the up position and lift my foot up and take it out. cut the bobbin thread and the top thread and then pull that one up so that's an option next time I'll show you another option. Okay, I've pressed my second strip and now I have my next strip. I'm changing color. Now I'm going to line that up and I'm lining it up in the center and if you look at this end it doesn't line up at all, but that's totally cool, don't stress about it, so I'm just going to pin this and sew it up and iron it nice and tight. .

I added my short strip and I just sewed my longer strip and I'll show you my alternative if you don't want to pick it up. you have to know your machine. I know that my machine, when I do a simple cut, doesn't leave that bad of a mark on the back, so I did a little bit of backing up, two steps back, two steps forward and then I'm just going to use the cutter and on my machine that only leaves two little tails and there's not much of a nest, so I'm just going to cut them off and be happy with that, now I'm going to keep adding strips like this. adding the short one first and then the long one and pressing as I go until I get to the end now the important thing is to make sure you take these pins out when you get to them because if you sew them there there is no way to take them out again once you have added all the strips in one direction, you can turn around and go the other direction now that we have all of our strips sewn together and there are just a couple of little tricky things I want to tell you about before we finish. up, so if you see that you end up with kind of a zigzag here, no one's going to want to tie it like that, so let's trim it down.

I like to baste everything, but it's a little tricky when you're basting around here to know when to turn the corner and anticipate when you're going to trim if you can see these, you're going to aim to trim them right where these stitches are, so you want to baste a little bit, you know an eighth of an inch from there, so I like to go ahead and mark that and then when I come and baste over here, I know when to turn and then this is going to be your cut line here or just a little bit. a little bit outside of it is fine too and then you're ready to put it together, you're going to baste everything together with a big stitch and then you're going to trim the edges and then you're going to put your beautiful table runner together, okay? everything is basted together and you'll notice as you go that this isn't maybe 100 even though it doesn't really matter just do the best you can and then use your ruler to straighten it out so now I'm going to move on. and I grab my long ruler and trim my edges.

I want to talk about what happens if you stray a little, so if your center square isn't perfectly straight, you may end up feeling like you're straying to one side of the edge of the quilt like you see in this photo. Watch how the pieces move towards the edge on one side and away from the edge on the other side, don't worry too much about this because remember. that you're going to trim this pretty severely, you're trimming all those points, so as long as you're consistent and it doesn't stray too far, you should be fine, there we go, I'm not going to do it.

He spends a lot of time talking about bookbinding, we all know how to do bookbinding and there are lots of great videos on how to do it. This has some regular turns and some shallower turns, you do the same thing and sew all the way to the corner. stop and turn and you can and you can make these corners work as well as normal corners. I hope you enjoy the quilt as you progress.