Dreaming of South Carolina Tablerunner

1- Charm pack Moda Swanky

3/4 yard of Swanky Hamptons Peacock #16037-15

1/4 yard or fat quarter of a solid pink

Omnigrid tumbler template

Choose 30 charms from your pack. Using a rotary ruler and cutter cut a 3.5 inch strip. Since a charm is 5 inch square, a 1.5 inch strip will be left.

Using the Omnigrid template or make your own out of cardboard. The Omnigrid tumbler is 2 inches at it’s narrow end and 3.75 at it’s widest. The height at the center is 3.5 inches.

Here is what one charm will yield. A tumbler, 2 scraps, a 1.5 X 5 inch strip and a 1 1/4 inch X 3.5 inch strip. Set the 1.5 inch strips aside for the prairie points. FYI….I cut all my tumblers and lost the pictures. I re-made the photo using a different fabric line…the cutting result is the same.

The trickiest part of the tumbler is aligning the pieces before sewing. Offset the sides about 3/8 of an inch…
Continue to piece so that you have 6 strips of 5 tumblers. Piece rows as shown.
Trim the top by making a straight edge on the 2 longest sides. The short sides will be straight.

Measure your top and cut 2 peacock fabric strips 1 1/4 inches by that width ~ approximately 18 3/4 inches. Add to the longest sides of the top.

Pin, Pin, Pin….

Continue on to adding the sides 1 1/4 X 12.5 inches.

Cut 2 solid border strips 12.5 X2.5 inches. Sew to short ends of topper.

Let’s make the mini prairie points, Choose 26 of the 5 X 1 1/2 inch strips and cut a square 1 1/2 X 1 1/2 inches from each.

Fold in half length-wise and iron.

Fold the piece inward so that the raw edges meet.

Do this for both sides and iron. These are very small so accuracy is important.

Pin, Pin, pin the the solid pink border as shown. Then baste about 1/8 inch from the raw edges. The raw edge will be covered by binding. NOTE* start your point placement about 3/8 inch from the edge and overlap the side edges about 1/4 inch.

There are 13 prairie points on each end.

Now you can layer and quilt the runner.

I stitched a 1/4 inch inside each tumbler.

And added a couple of quilting lines on the end border.

To finish I cut 2 – 1.5 inch X width of fabric (42-ish) strips for single fold binding. I like to use single fold for small quilt projects that won’t have a lot of wear and tear.

Notice the binding did cover the prairie points raw edge.

Dreaming of South Carolina Table runner 12.5 X24

I made most of this table runner while we were on vacation in South Carolina. This week as I finished quilting, my thoughts kept wondering back to the ocean…hence the name.

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