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.

Wondering what to do with left over strips from a quilt project.  Here is an idea.

After making a quilt that was made with fat quarters I had 15 left over flannel strips that varied in width and were about 21" long.  Because the strips were flannel, I wasn't quite sure what to do with them.  I thought that they might make a table runner however there were not enough of the them. There fore I needed to add some filler strips in between.  

I pick up one of the strips that sort of looked like it might be an average size.  It measure 2 1/4". So finished that would be 1 3/4" times 15 strips would be 26.25", not long enough for a table runner. I thought that if I added a 1" finished strip in between which would add 14" then the table runner would be about 40".

So I cut 7 strips 1 1/2" width from a white fabric, cut the strips in half so they were about the same length as the flannel strips.  I sewed the white strips between each of the flannel strips. 

For the quilting, I stitched in the ditch on each side of the white filler strip.  For some of the wider flannel strips, I stitch down the center of the strip.

Since the flannel strips varied in width, the actually size of the table runner was 48".  By the time I trimmed the strips to the same length, the table runner measured 17" width. 

I discovered an easier way on how to measure the width of the finished table runner when using strips of different widths.  I will share that with you in a future blog.

I took a Craftsy class Strip Your Stash by Nancy Smith and it gave me inspiration for my table runner.
Do you have ideas on what to do with left over strips?

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