You can easily adjust the pattern to make it longer or shorter. Use scraps or a charm pack. Use vintage fabric or totally modern. Take two squares from your charm pack. Then add another row of five, starting one lower than the first square of the previous row of five. Continue to add rows of five, always starting one square down, and complete the length of the table runner that you want.
Then add a row of four, then a row of two. The first two blocks are the start of the zig zag. This will give you the zig zag.
For the backing, you might have some left over fabric from a quilt project, and a piece of left over batting. You can guess that it was a bit of a challenge to turn the table runner right side out, but it can be done.
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I will be making the first one, the other 2,music lover and wine country have the tops finished but are not layered and assembled yet. When you open the pack you will have pieces of each basic color, start by laying them all out in no special order just yet. The fun part is next.
Once you have them layed out you can try to arrange them into some sort of a color scheme, All I can say is good luck! Try walking away or squinting your eyes, give your eyes a rest and come back, Just don't be too Anal about it, you will go crazy and never even get started.
The reason for taking the picture is, you are going to be moving stuff around quite a bit and things can get a little confusing. A reference picture really comes in handy so you don't put stuff where it don't belong,. I prefer to chain stich whenever possible, it saves time and thread, chain stitching is basically sewing several parts of a project at one time without lifting the needle then putting the smaller parts together to make bigger parts and so on.
There are several steps to follow to make sure everything lays flat and your points line up perfectly. My first strip I fold the seam upward and press it then the second strip I iron the seams downward then the next upward and so on until I get to the end. I like to use wonder clips instead of pins when possible to save time and my failing eyes don't have to work so hard trying to put pins in exact positions.
Setting the seam, I don't know the science behind it but the pro's do it so this novice does it too, I think it gets the material hot and steamy to help getting a sharp crease, with the piece flat press on the stitch line firmly, don't wiggle just press down, then open your piece and press the fold to the desired direction, Remember 1 column up next down and so on,.
I have made a picture for the layout of this and you should have your reference picture available,. Your first strip that has 2-squares attaches to the 2 middle squares of the second strip with 4 squares.
Next the second strip with the 4 squares attaches even with the top of the third strip with the 5 squares. Then the rest of the strips are attached to the second square down on the next one, all the way across until all strips are connected.
Lay your 4 square strip over onto the 2 square strip face down into the correct position, Butt the folds going in opposite directions tightly into each other, see pic 1 , picture 2 shows the connection with a pin and picture 3 shows with a clip. I like to use the clips on every joint all the way to the end to ensure the joints stay tight and my edges stay flush,.
Do this for all 9 strips remembering to check strip alignment and orientation before sewing them together. Do as you did in the first pressing of the strips, setting the seams and pressing your folds in one direction, at this point it don't matter which way the folds go, just start with one of the 2 square ends and have at it, you will notice they will lay in a nice uniform layer, I lay it on the table in front of me and pull it over the ironing board and let it drape down to the floor as I go, your joints should lay like those in the last picture.
Lay your batting down, it should be wide enough to extend at least an inch on all sides of the top, we will trim off the excess later on. You can sew smaller pieces together to make one large one using up scraps but don't make the seams too bulky. So, lay it out flat and smooth out any wrinkles, then lay your backing material down on top of that Face Up, As I stated earlier you can use any style of backing you want or several pieces sewn together, just make sure to have a piece about an inch larger the top all around and smooth this out as well, you don't want any wrinkles here as they will appear later and hard to get out after ironing.
So, batting down, backing down face up then lay your top down face down, right sides together and smooth this out too, there should be about an inch or more of backing and batting extending from all sides.
Pin or clip every inside corner and outside point see pic together to prevent movement while manhandling the runner during zigzagging.
We will be trimming all of the excess batting and backing away from the top, as close as possible. Now, on every outside corner, clip off the point as close to the thread line as possible without nipping the thread, this will reduce bulk when pulling your points out,.
On every inside corner, cut into the V right up to the thread line as well without nipping the thread, this will give room for spread when pulling your inside points later,. Don't worry about weakening the edges we will be topstitching these later and sealing the whole thing.
Now reach into the opening you left at one end between the backing and the top,and grab one point at the other end, slowly and carefully pull the whole thing through a little at a time, turning it right side out. With your fingertip first, start pushing all of the points out into place, it will start taking shape now somewhat. Then with your pointed object of choice, I use a cooking chopstick, work each point to a sharp point by wiggling and twisting or picking with a pin or however you see fit.
Just get them all to your liking,. Grasp 2 points and firmly pull them away from each other, this will get them started to lay down, roll the v between your fingers a bit and repeat pulling one point at a time until you are satisfied, it will take some maneuvering but this will work if you keep at it.
Look on the back side as well, some wrinkles appear here at times, The next step is ironing it flat for quilting and topstitching, some imperfections can be corrected then too. Time to iron it flat so we can topstitch the edges and quilt it.
Starting on the opposite end of the opening, go ahead and iron out all the wrinkles and any areas that need attention, along the edges make sure the bottom isn't rolled into top view or the top rolled over onto the bottom. Once you are satisfied with the positioning, go ahead and steam it into submission then pin or clip it into place.
There are many ways to do quilting obviously, if you have a quilting machine then you surely don't need me for this part,.
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