![]() ¾ yard of a coordinating 44″ + wide cotton solid we used Kona Cotton Solid in Snow.FOUR cuts from your chosen quilting cotton collection specific yardage is shown below coded to our original Downton Abbey fabric so it’s easy to follow-along with your personal fabric choices.Free Motion or Darning foot for optional free-motion quilting.Quarter Inch Seam foot optional but best for seaming.Walking or Even Feed foot optional but best for layers and ditch quilting or engage your machine’s built-in fabric feeding system, such as the AcuFeed™ Flex system we use on many of our Janome studio models.Sewing Machine and standard presser foot.Our runner finishes at approximately 56″ long point to point and 20″ wide at the center. If possible, look for a special focus motif, like the medallion we chose and fussy cut, as the perfect center point of each completed block When shopping for your fabric selections, pay particular attention to how we combined the light and dark fabrics it’s what enhances and showcases the star. If that style is too advanced for you, consider a simple diamond pattern, which would be a nice echo of all the half square triangles. We used free-motion quilting within the solid white of each inset triangle in a classic feather design. If you’re brand new to quilting, you may want to review our five-part Quilting Basics series for a good foundation prior to starting. The piecing for this project contains some more advanced techniques, but in true S4H fashion, we’ve provided detailed step-by-step instructions along with plenty of photos and even several diagrams. Of course, the runner’s design would be equally lovely in non-holiday themed fabric, making it an excellent choice year ’round. Look for collections rich in color with layered motifs.Īlthough we’re a little shy on the kitchen help and footmen the Downton Abbey television series is famous for, we were still able to put together our own festive table setting to echo the holiday ambience of a traditional Crawley family gathering. However, the traditional patchwork star design is one that would work well with any number of current quilting cotton collections – especially ones that feature a similar palette of both dark and light colors and a selection of petite prints. Remember to add any projects you have made with our tutorials in the Flickr group.This gorgeous quilted table runner was originally designed to feature the Downton Abbey fabric collection from Andover Fabrics. Jacey made this gorgeous Zig Zag table runner. Jessica made some unbelievably cute Grinch themed placemats! I must make them! Stitch on your binding, and your table runner is ready!ĭon’t forget to check out all the other projects from this final week of the Holiday Craft Bash! Once you have finished up the quilting, you can trim up your sides so that the batting and backing are even with the top. I stitched on little red x’s as cornerstones, then used an ecru Perle cotton to stitch rows inbetween the squares. I stuck with handquilting since that is what I’m most comfortable with. You can quilt as much or as little as you like. You’ve completed the top! Now its up to you baste your top, batting, and backing and decide what you want to do concerning the quilting. Then sew on the 14.5″ x 2.5″ strips onto the shorter ends of the pieced section. Now sew your 35.5″ x 2.5″ strips to the long ends of your pieced section. Once you have pieced your rows with squares, sew the 10.5″ x 2.5″ strips in between each of the nine rows so that you end up with seventeen rows sewn together (9 pieced, 8 plain). ![]() ![]() Sew together the squares vertically so that you are sewing 9 total pieced rows with 5 squares in each row. When you are happy with your layout, you can begin sewing your squares into rows. Layout your design to this effect: (ignore the x’s) To get started, cut your muslin or solid background color into the following: – 2/3 yd muslin (or some solid color for the background) Totally a boring name, but a really fun project that you can complete in just a couple of hours! Today I’m going to show you how to make my Christmas Table Runner. This week is the final week of projects in the Holiday Craft Bash! I can’t believe we’ve been at this for more than six weeks already! I do hope it has been fun for you and that you have been able to prepare your home for the holidays along with us. I’ve got much to cover and a new tutorial for you. Hey everyone! I’m back from a long week away from the blog.
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