Brighten up your breakfast table with this easy to make Sunflower Table Runner. The ITH Sunflower blocks are quick to stitch up and have borders, sashing and binding added at your sewing machine.
Cut 6 9” x 7” rectangles of white Kona Cloth® Cut 3 9” x 7” rectangles of Battilizer® or low loft batting Tautly hoop no-show stabilizer in your hoop and run color-stop (CS) 1 as a placement line for your fabric.
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Step 2:
Spray adhesive on the back of one of the Kona Cloth® rectangles and position over the placement lines so that the fabric exceeds the placement lines by ½” on all sides. Run CS 2 to tack down the fabric.
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Step 3:
Follow the color chart to embroider the sunflowers. Do not sew the last two color stops yet.
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Step 4:
Remove the hoop from the machine; do not unhoop. Place the hoop face down on a flat surface. Spray the batting with adhesive and position over the original placement lines so that the batting exceeds the placement lines by ½” on all sides. Spray adhesive on a white fabric rectangle and align over the top of the batting.
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Step 5:
Run CS 10 to tack down the batting and backing; run CS 11 to quilt the block.
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Step 6:
Remove the block from the hoop and lay the ¼” line of a see-through ruler along the tack down line stitching on the block. Trim all edges to ¼” seam allowance.
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Step 7:
Repeat the above 6 steps to make a second block.
Step 8:
In the sample the embroidery design has been flipped horizontally to give a different look to the middle block. At your machine, in the edit mode, you should see a button like the one circled in the picture. Touch that button and it will flip your design. Stitch out following the first 6 steps.
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Step 9:
From the white fabric cut: a. 4 strips 1 ¼” x 9” b. 4 strips 1 ½” x 9” From the green fabric cut: a. 2 strips 1 ¼” x width of the fabric b. 2 strips 1 ½” x the width of the fabric c. 4 strips 3” wide by the width of the fabric
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Step 10:
From each of the 3” wide green strips cut in Step 9, cut a 10” and 25” strip. You will have 4 strips 3” x 10” and 4 strips 24” x 10”. Cut 2 strips of batting to 3” x 10” and 2 strips of batting 3” x 25”.
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Step 11:
Make border quilt sandwiches from the fabrics and batting cut in Step 10 by spraying a batting strip with adhesive; align a corresponding green strip of fabric over the batting. Spray the other side of the batting with adhesive and align a corresponding fabric strip over that side. You will now have 2 side borders and top and bottom borders.
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Step 12:
Fold the outside edges into the center of the 1 ½” and 1 ¼” strips. Spray them with Magic Sizing or spray starch and press to make the sashing. Keep the narrow strips separate from the wider strips. The narrow strips are used on the back of the project, the wider strips are used on the front.
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Step 13:
At your sewing machine select a wide zigzag stitch such as 5.5mm and space out the stitches to 4mm.
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Step 14:
Butt the sides of the quilt blocks together without gaps or overlaps, align the tops and bottoms of the blocks. Join the blocks with a zigzag stitch.
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Step 15:
Butt the side borders to the sides of the table runner and join with a zigzag stitch. Note the side borders will extend about 1” above and below the sunflower blocks.
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Step 16:
On the back of the table runner stitch the narrow 9” white sashing strips over the zigzag joinings of the center blocks and the side borders. Stitch down both sides of the strips with a straight stitch.
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Step 17:
Turn the table runner right side up. Stitch the wider 9” white strips over the center of the joining zigzag stitches and stitch down both sides of the sashing with a straight stitch. Your table runner should now look like this.
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Step 18:
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Trim the excess sashing and borders from the top and bottom of the table runner.
Step 19:
Butt and zigzag the top and bottom borders across the table runner as you did the side borders in Step 15.
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Step 20:
Center the narrow green sashing strips over the zigzag joining stitches on the back of the table runner and stitch down both sides with a straight stitch. Flip the table runner right side up and center the wider green sashing strips over the zigzag joining stitches and stitch down both sides with a straight stitch.
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Step 21:
The use of the white sashing strips in the center of the table runner and the green sashing strips on the top and bottom of the center blocks makes the borders appear to be different widths. Therefore, lay the 2.5” mark on a see-through ruler along the white center blocks and trim all edges to 2.5” from the white.
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Step 22:
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Cut 2 2 ¼” strips across the width of the binding fabric. Join and bind the table runner using your preferred method.
Step 23:
Congratulations you Simply Sunflowers Table Runner is complete.
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.
