Featured fabric: Henry Glass Scrap Basket Favorites by Kim Diehl

Pattern design by: Lindsay Conner

Sewn by: Lindsay Conner

Are you looking for a table runner to add some handcrafted chic to your kitchen decor? This pretty patchwork design is suitable for advanced beginners and comes together quickly! Make this as a housewarming gift for your bestie or create one in seasonal fabrics for a Thanksgiving, Halloween, Christmas, or Valentine’s Day project. The choice is yours!

Skills Learned: Machine piecing, quilting

Skill Level: Advanced Beginner

Finished Size:

39.5” long x 20” wide (100.33m x 50.80m)

Fabric Requirements:

3.5” (8.89cm) x WOF (Width of Fabric) strip of 9 different prints

Batting: 44” x 24” (111.76cm x 60.96cm)

Backing fabric: 44” x 24” (111.76cm x 60.96cm)

Materials:

Sewing machine

Hand-sewing needle and thread

Scissors

Rotary cutter, ruler, and mat

Quilt batting

Turning tool or blunt pencil for turning

Sewing pins

Directions

1. Take 9 different fabrics and cut a strip that is 3.5” x width of fabric (WOF)—or selvage to selvage. Press the fabric strips. Cut all the strips in half lengthwise (22” long) and separate them equally into 2 piles, with 9 different prints in each pile.

2. For the first stack, arrange each stack of half-strips in a random order, trying to vary the color of fabrics placed side by side. Repeat with the second stack, arranging them in a different order than before. Sew together the strips in the left stack. Repeat with the right stack.

3. Turn over the sewn strips and press the seams to one side. Repeat with the second strip set.

4. If you haven't already, cut the selvages off both strip sets. Next, use a ruler and rotary cutter to trim each strip set into 3.5”-wide patchwork strips.

5. Arrange the patchwork strips in diagonal rows as shown. You will need to separate some of them with a seam ripper to create the 3-block and 6-block strips on the lower left and upper right corners! Fiddle with the arrangement until you are happy with the layout.

6. Pin the strips together and stitch the patchwork strips together into a table runner.

7. Important: There are a couple more patchwork squares that you will remove at this point! Use a ream ripper to carefully remove the squares marked with a lightened circle. Choose two of these removed squares and reattach them where there is a white “X”.

The resulting runner will look like this!

8. Place the table runner right side up on a piece of quilt batting that is slightly larger on all sides.

Tip: If you need to piece together batting scraps, you can sew them side-by-side with a zigzag stitch to join into “Franken-batting”!

9. Quilt the patchwork runner to the batting in any pattern desired. You can use straight lines through the offset squares, intersecting at each point.

10. Use scissors or a rotary cutter to trim the excess batting away from the runner.

11. Place the quilted runner right side down onto a piece of backing fabric that is larger than the runner on all sides. Pin in place.

12. Stitch the quilted runner to the backing fabric using a ¼” seam allowance and sewing all around the perimeter. Leave an opening that is 3” wide in one side for turning.

13. Trim the excess backing fabric from around the table runner with scissors or a rotary cutter.

14. From the 3” opening you left earlier, turn the table runner right side out. Use a blunt pencil or turning tool to carefully poke out the corners.

15. Press the table runner flat. Use a ¼” seam allowance to topstitch all around the perimeter, closing the opening from earlier.

Ta-da! This rustic, traditional-style table runner can be customized for your kitchen decor. Serve a special charcuterie board or enjoy nightly dinners with this sweet table topper adding to the ambience!

Fabric Details:

To view the complete Henry Glass Scrap Basket Favorites by Kim Diehl collection, click here.

Learn more about Lindsay here.