Easy to make with a large panel.
Fabric: www.northcott.net Sunny Daze
Colors: green, yellow, orange, brown
Size: Lap 47" by 67"
Skill Level: Advanced Beginner
Technique: Fusible Applique/Pieced
Year Complete: 2016
SKU: 4864-1

When I make a quilt I usually have left over scraps that are different sizes.  In this case I sewed all the strips together and since they were left over from a fat quarter the size was 16” by 20”.  I cut the strip set in half widthwise so I had 2 blocks 10” by 16”. 

If I sewed the 2 blocks together that would be 10” by 32” which seemed too short for a table runner, so I added a strip that I had left over from the backing to the middle between the 2 blocks.

I now had a table runner 10” by 30” which seemed a little too short.

So I sewed a strip to each end of the table runner. So now I had a table runner 10” by 36” which seemed to be a good length.

I layered it on batting and pieced the backing from left over fabric pieces.  I just keep adding strips until I had a piece big enough for the backing.

I then spray basted the 3 layers and quilted in the ditch with gold rayon thread.  I could have used the quilt as you so method except that I don’t know what I am going to end up with table runner or placemats or a tote bags so that method doesn’t work for me.

I bound the table runner with black fabric.  Below is the finished table runner with lovely black and gold fabrics left over from my Spiral Log Cabin quilt.

Below is my Sprial Log Cabin quilt that I used the left over strips from.

I had these strips left over from making a Spiral Log Cabin quilt.

I sewed the strips together in to blocks and trimmed the blocks so that they were square.

To make the quilt bigger I added sashing borders with corner squares.  I really like using corner squares in sashing since it makes it easy to line the rows up.

I added a inner border and an outer border to complete the quilt. 

For the quilting, I stitched in the ditch on each side of the sashing.  I stitched in the ditch on each side of the inner border.

For the blocks I used a plastic quilting template.  I used my blue quilt marking pen that is supposed to fade to mark the quilting lines.  I do have lots of quilt marking pens and I never know which one fade and which ones need to be ironed.

However the next day, the blue lines still showed so I spray the lines with water and most of them faded.  The next day I had to spray some of the spots again.  There is some blue in one of the fabrics so it was a little hard to tell if all the spots faded.  The lesson learned is to spray the lines with water after I have finished the quilting.

It looks nice on my table.  It would probably look better on a smaller table.