Quilt Pinecone Winter Table Runner Embroidery Project

Cut 12 9 ½” squares of the white on white fabric and Battilizer®.  Pick a blue embroidery thread that coordinates with your back and binding fabric.

Tautly hoop poly mesh stabilizer in your hoop.

Run the 1st color stop (CS) in white thread as a placement line.

Spray adhesive on the Battilizer® square and position it over the placement lines so that the Battilizer® exceeds the placement lines by ½” on all sides. Run CS 2 to tack down the Battilizer® with white thread.

For the upper left hand corner of the table runner trim the Battilizer® on the right hand side and at the bottom of the block right up next to the tack down line.  This tack down line is just inside the original placement line.  I only used a single line of stitching here to keep this placement line from getting too thick.  If you nick a stitch or two as you trim the sides do not worry about it as the fabric tack down line that is sewn next will keep the batting in place.

Spray adhesive on the back of the white on white fabric square and position it over the placement lines so that the fabric exceeds the placement lines by ½” on all sides.  Rune CS 3 with water soluble thread.  Water soluble thread is used in case any of the stitches show after you join your blocks together.  If they do you can remove them by rubbing a wet cloth over those stitches.

Run the final CS in the blue embroidery thread of your choice to embroider the design.

Remove the project from the hoop.  Lay the ½” mark of a see-through ruler along the tack down lines and trim all sides to a ½” seam allowance.

The steps to stitching blocks 2, 3 4, and 5 are the same except you will trim the top, right side, and bottom of the Battilizer®.

For the bottom block of the left side, design 6 trim the top and right-hand side of the block.

For the top right side of the table runner, block 7, trim the left side and the bottom of the Battilizer®.

For blocks 8, 9, 10 and 11 which will be on the right side of the table runner trim the top, left side, and bottom of the stabilizer.

For the bottom block of the right side of the table runner trim the top and left side of the Battilizer®.

Lay out your completed quilt blocks making sure that the trimmed edges of the Battilizer are to the inside of the table runner and between the individual blocks.  All edges that still have Battilizer® will be to the outside edges and the top and bottom of the table runner.

Don’t be afraid to swap blocks out to get an arrangement that is your favorite.  Just be sure that the Battilizer® filled edge of the block stays on the outside of the table runner.

Starting at the top or bottom of the table runner place the two blocks right sides together.  Pin the inside seam together aligning the placement line stitches at the top, bottom and center of the blocks.  Make sure both edges pinned together have had the Battilizer® trimmed from them.

With White sewing thread stitch between the Battilizer® tack down line and the original placement line stitches. A 3mm stitch length and walking foot is recommended.

Press the seam open. 

Stitch the next two blocks together in the same manner and press the seam open.  Align your first two stitched blocks, right sides together, with the second row of stitched blocks aligning the center seam and the outside edges of the blocks and stitch together.  Press the seam open.

Continue stitching the sets of blocks together and adding them the table runner until all 12 blocks are combined.  Check to make sure all outside edges have Battilizer® in them.

This is a good time to remove any water-soluble stitches that may show close to the seams of the blocks.  Just dip the corner of a cloth in hot water and rub them – they should disappear.

Cut a 21” x 50” rectangle of the blue winter fabric, lay it face down on the table and center your quilt blocks on it.  You will have a couple of inches of extra backing fabric on all sides.  Using quilting pins, pin the layers of the table runner together.

Stitch in the ditch across all rows of the blocks and down the center seam.  I also stitch around the whole table runner on top of the tack down stitches.

Lay the ¼” line of a see-through ruler along the outside tack down stitches.  Trim all sides of the table runner to a ¼” seam allowance, squaring up the table runner as you go.

Cut 4 2 ¼” strips across the width of the fabric.  Join and apply the binding to the table runner using your preferred method.  I use invisible thread for this and an E stitch when stitching the binding to the front of the project.

Congratulations your Circle of Life Winter Table Runner is complete!