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Koi Blue Line Table Runner Embroidery Project

By Pat Williams on May 29, 2018

PROJECT DETAILS

SKILL LEVEL

Beginner

TIME REQUIRED

02:00

FINISHED SIZE

42 x 13.5 inches

Description

Simplicity and serenity abound in this simple to make quick table runner.

Project Preview Video

Materials

8” x 8” embroidery hoop or 12” x 7” or larger

½ yard Indigo Blue and White Fabric

½ yard of White Kona Cloth® if using a 8” x 8” embroidery hoop

5/8th yard of White Kona Cloth® is using a 12” x 7” or 12” x 8” embroidery hoop

No Show Stabilizer to fit your hoop for three hoopings

1 1/3rd yards of Fusible Knit Interfacing

Navy embroidery thread to match the navy in the fabric

Frixion® fabric marking pen

2 1” faux wood buttons

Designs used in this project

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/koil03

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/koil02

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/koil01

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/koil05

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/koil04

Final Product: What You Will Create

Preface:

One half of a yard of the white Kona Cloth® worked well in the sample as it fit in the 8” x 8” embroidery hoop. You will need 5/8th of a yard if you are working with a 12” x 7” or 12” x 8” embroidery hoop. If you are using a larger hoop purchase fabric the width you need to fully hoop the fabric in the hoop. In all cases the white fabric will be trimmed down to the appropriate width after the embroidery designs are stitched to complete the table runner.

Step 1:

Cut Indigo fabric 18” by the width of the fabric.
Cut White Kona Cloth® the depth to fit your embroidery hoop by the width of the fabric
Cut the fusible knit interfacing the length and width of the White Kona cloth
Fuse the knit interfacing to the back of the white fabric following the manufacturer’s instructions.

Step 2:

Press a crease vertically and horizontally in the white fabric. Make a mark in the center of the fabric and 8.75” away from the center on the horizontal line both sides of the center mark.

Step 3:

Using no show stabilizer tautly hoop the white fabric centering the center mark in the hoop.

Step 4:

Choose three of the Koi Blue Line designs and decide in what order you would like them placed on your table runner. In this sample KOIL01 is stitched in the center position, KOIL02 is stitched on the left side and KOIL 04 is stitched on the right. Choose a thread that matches your indigo fabric and stitch the center design.

Step 5:

Remove the project from the hoop. Trim the no show stabilizer around the design. Stitch 2 more Koi using the marks made 8.75” away from the center, centering your marks in the center of the hoop.

Step 6:

Lay the 5” line of a see through ruler down the center crease in the fabric. Trim off both sides of the white fabric. The white fabric will now measure 10” wide by the width of the fabric.

Step 7:

Place the indigo fabric right side up on your work table. Matching up the center of the embroidered strip with the center of the indigo fabric pin the fabrics together.

Step 8:

Due to the different widths of the fabrics the ends of the strips may not meet exactly – that is all right, we will be trimming them shortly.

Step 9:

At your sewing machine stitch the fabrics together with a ¼” seam allowance.

Step 10:

Bring the embroidered strip to the far side of the indigo fabric, still right sides together. Match up the center of the indigo fabric with the center of the embroidered strip and pinning from the center out to the ends of the strip pin the fabrics together. Stitch the fabrics together with a ¼” seam allowance.

Step 11:

Turn the tube you have just created right sides out. Adjust the fabrics so the same amount of indigo fabric forms a border on each side.

Step 12:

With Magic Sizing® or spray starch press the table runner, pressing the seams towards the indigo fabric.

Step 13:

Align the folded edge of the project along a marked line of your rotary cutter mat and trim the ends of the tube so that the selvages are cut off and the fabrics are even.

Step 14:

Fold the short ends of the table runner together right sides out. Align the two top edges perfect and pin the sides together.

Step 15:

Stitch from the borders edge to the folded edge with a ¼” seam allowance. Repeat on the other end of the table runner.

Step 16:

Trim a little of the seam allowance at the folded edge to reduce bulk.

Step 17:

Turn the triangular ends right side out and press, pressing the seam allowance to one side.

Step 18:

Hand stitch a faux wood 1” button to each end of the table runner to tack the triangle into place.

Step 19:

Congratulations your Koi Blue Line Table Runner is complete!

For the love of embroidery…
Pat Williams

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Meet the Author: Pat Williams

Award winning Digitizer, Embroidery Educator, Author and a Consultant to the Industry, Pat Williams has 30 years of experience in the embroidery industry. Pat has won multiple awards for her digitizing expertise including the 2007 Impressions Awards Grand Championship, Best of Show as well as the 1st and 2nd Place Awards. Pat’s love of digitizing has afforded her the opportunity to write numerous articles for Impressions magazine in the United States and Images Magazine in Europe. In 2001 Pat was named “Embroidery Educator of the Year.” For many years Pat taught digitizing seminars at the ISS Shows in Long Beach, CA and for Compucon software. She now resides in Tucson, AZ.

Koi Blue Line Table Runner Embroidery Project

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