Instructions:
1. Print the Sassy Summer Table Runner pattern PDF. Make sure you do not scale the pattern when you print
2. - Cut backing from the background fabric LOF, 15½" x 45½"
- Cut three 15½" blocks from the remaining background fabric
- Cut one 6" square of fabric color A
- Cut two 6" squares of fabric color B
Click here for the Sassy Summer Table Runner coloring page.
3. Choose an embroidery design that will fit within a 5" circle. If you’re using the Horizon MC15000 you can even do this on your iPad while sipping your morning coffee!
Choose thread to coordinate with the fabrics you’ve chosen. Remember, you’re not limited to the colors set in the embroidery design. Jane likes to use the Color Section key (looks like two little flowers) on her embroidery screen and plays with thread color as she goes along.
4. Embroider the motifs with Jane's new favorite method of embroidering on quilting cottons.
Hoop two layers of fusible tear-away stabilizer with the fusible side up for both layers. Use a little travel iron to adhere one of the 6" squares of fabric to the stabilizer and then embroider. Only the stabilizer is hooped, not the fabric. Embroider all three 6" squares.
5. Trace the shapes from the template pages onto fusible web. Trace the quantities specified for each shape and roughly cut around each traced piece.
Fuse all the shapes except the three circle 1’s to the back of fabrics A, B and C following the web manufacturer’s instructions.
Once cooled, cut out all the fused shapes along the solid lines.
6. Fuse together the stripe units, following the instructions printed on the Fusing Guide that was printed with the pattern.
7. Mark the background blocks with a guideline 5½" in from each edge. Then mark the inner square with crossing lines for the center. These lines will help you center the stripe units and the circles when you fuse them to the block.
Fuse the shapes to the background blocks as indicated on the Block Layout page and listed below. The quarter circles and the stripe units will extend to the edges of the block (in the seam allowance). Fuse carefully so the appliqué will line up when the blocks are sewn together.
- Fuse the stripe units on first, making sure they extend into the seam allowance and are centered in the 5½" guide lines.
- Fuse the quarter circles next, making sure they extend into the seam allowance.
- Fuse the center circle 2’s, centering on the block. (It’s helpful to very lightly crease the circle.)
- Fuse the center circle 1’s, centering on the larger circles.
8. Stitch around the edges of the appliqué shapes using decorative thread and a pleasing stitch. (If you have a circle attachment, you may find it very useful to stitch around the six circles.)
Note: You can also secure the edges of the appliqué when quilting, which is what Jane did for the butterfly table runner.
9. Sew the blocks together using ¼" seams, following the Color Placement image then press the seams open.
10. Sew layers together as follows: Place the batting on the bottom, the backing (facing right side up) in the middle and the runner (facing right side down) on top. Pin around the edges. Using the Dual Feed Foot OD or a Walking Foot, depending on your machine, stitch around the edges with a ¼" seam leaving a 10" - 12" opening to turn the runner right side out.
Clip across the corners and turn the runner right side out. Once that is done, push the corners out with a point turner and press the edges.
Pin to the baste and free-motion quilt.
