Chriss Cross Table Runner and Place Mat Set PART 1

It has been a while since I have posted a tutorial

so I  thought I would post what we did in class today 

In total you will have one Table Runner 

and a set of 

4 Place Mats 

below is what you need for everything 

but this is a 2 part Tutorial 
part 2 will be posted next week

what you will need:

Sewing machine 

Missouri Star Quilt Co.(MSQC) Small Simple Wedge Template

3 matching Fat Quarters (F/Q)

1 contrasting Fat Quarter for around the feature (F/Q)

1 meter of Black plain fabric such as Emma Louise Quilters Muslin
matching Thread 

Rotary Cutter 

cutting Mat

6x24inch ruler 

1.7 wadding of your choice eg: cotton/polyester/Bamboo

                                                                  1.7 Backing fabric 

                                                                 .70cm Binding Fabric 

now that we have all that together lets get started :) 

first take your matching F/Q's and iron out all the creases 

this is a must for accurate cutting of the template :) 

Here comes the fun and simple part of this Lovely table set

1. take your  MSQC Small simple Wedge template 

and place it on your fabric as i have in the picture

now cut along each edge of the template 

that is your first Triangle.....now spin your template...

line up on the cut edge of the fabric and cut along the other edge 

so you get your 2nd Triangle....continue this until 

you have 64 triangles in total ") 

2. Lets get sewing! 

take your triangles and place them like 

i have done in the picture here...and sew a 1/4 inch 

seam along the edges...press and then add another 

to this and continue until you have joined  triangles together

this forms a feature block in the table runner and place mats 

continue until you have 4  panels in total for Table Runner
then square off your feature blocks :) 
you just cut your end triangles in half 
like pictured :) 

3.Onto the Border for feature panels 

take you Contrasting F/Q and cut into 

1 inch Strips (cut as you need as you may not use the whole F/Q)

Now border your feature block....Press as you go.....for me I done the long sides first 

then the top and bottom...as you can see pictured here

                 

4. Now onto the assembly of your Table Runner 

take you Plain fabric in my case I used Black as this is my colour scheme of 

my Kitchen/Dinning Room 

** Cut 1x 9.5 inch strip  across the width of the fabric 

and 

**1 x 2.5inch strip across the width of the fabric 

now

take your first bordered feature Block and  add a 2.5" strip to the left side 

 and then on the right side of the feature block add the 9.5" strip of fabric 

now trim of excess...

then 

add another feature block and press 

now take you left over 9.5" strip and add another panel

continue doing this until you have 4 feature blocks attached 

now add another 2.5 inch strip to the end and you should have something that looks like this 

5.Now for the final strips to be added 

**Cut 3 x 1&1/4 inch strips (see placement of strips in above picture)

join 2 of them together and sew on to the top of the 

table runner cut off excess ....now repeat for the bottom of the Table Runner 

Your Table Runner Top  is Complete.....

6.Now onto the Quilting it :) 

you can do this however you please but for me 

I kept it nice and simple 

I just Quilted in ditch for the feature block and then 

cross hatched the black panels

7.Nearly Done Binding to go 

** cut 4 x 2.5" strips of binding fabric (WOF)

cut off selvage's and join your strips end to end 

to make one long strip of fabric...

now head over to your iron and press with 

wrong sides of your fabric facing each other 

(pretty side facing out) 

continue this until you have done 
The Entire length

Steps 1 to 5 for how to make your binding ..once you have sewn your strips end to end then we want to fold them with pretty side facing out and wrong sides facing each other in half....Press with a hit iron...once you have done this and you get to the end of your binding you need to open up approx 2 inches of you binding like shown in the 4th picture...now take your corner and press to make a 45 degree angle...no special tools need just do it like shown in picture  5 now move on step 6 

Steps 6 to 9... fold your fabric back over so you have it looking like image 6...now give it a good press with a hot Iron and maybe even use some spray starch it help it hold form for  you...you can see here what we are trying to achieve...a nice bias angle with the end of our binding...this will give you a nicer overall finish to your binding 

9. Now you are ready to attach you binding to the front of your 
Table Runner  

Steps 1 -3 following the pics you need to attach your binding like pic1. and then when
you start to sew about 5inches from the first pin back stitch for 3 stitches and then continue on till you
come to the 1st corner of table runner 

Steps 4 to 7 once you come to the corner you want to stop a 1/4 inch from the corner then take out your table runner and flip up your tail like in pic 5. then fold it down like it  is shown in step 6. it should look like pic 7 continue doing this for all your other corners ..this will create a Mitered corner :) 

steps 8 to 11...now that we are at our final corner we so the same as above...we continue to sew down till about an inch from the beginning of our binding....it is at this point that I take my long tail and trim it...it must have enough of a tail to fit into the beginning of our binding...you can what I am trying to achieve here by the pictures

Steps 12 to 15...so in picture 12 you can see that I have cut it on an angle...now we take this and slip into the beginning of our binding see pic 13...now fold it back over so it looks like it continues on like in picture 14...now sew along the remaining binding until you meet up with where you started
you now finished putting your binding on 

Table runner ....once this is done you  can then hand sew the 

binding onto the back of your table runner
your corners on the back should look like the picture below 
perfect mitered corners :) :) 

Woo Hoo you now have a completed Table Runner YaY 

Keep an eye out Next week for Part 2 

how to assemble your matching Place Mats ") 

                                         Happy Quilting ") N