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Design Your Own Table Runner!

August 12, 2020

Today’s Topic: Design Your Own Table Runner

Welcome to Week Nine of The Better Machine Quilt-a-long based on my book 25 Days to Better Machine Quilting.

Find all of the previous Lessons HERE.

Sign up for emails of the class HERE.

Good Morning, Quilters!

We’ve had a busy week so far!  We’ve been Super heroes fighting villains like Gravity and Friction.  Then we put on our lab coats to become quilt scientists.

And today we will transform ourselves to think like designers. (All while maintaining our civilian disguises – going to work, cooking and cleaning–and otherwise pretending we aren’t thinking about quilting 50%, 75%,   98% of the time!)

Goal of the 25 Week QAL

The stated goal of this quilt-a-long (and my book) is to become better quilters by trying a wide variety of techniques and supplies.  However, the real goal is for YOU to be able to quilt YOUR quilt tops!

In order to do that, it is important for you to think about how each lesson applies to YOUR quilts and YOUR quilting style.

In other words, you need to think like a quilt designer.

There are many ways to use the basic formula of the Square Flower Table Runner to make it your own.  Create your design by: Changing the size, piecing the quilt top, changing the color palette or stitching different motifs.

Change the Size

The Square Flower table runner is fairly small.  Would YOU like it longer or wider?

Keep the proportions the same and scale it up!

Pieced Instead of Whole Cloth Quilt

The Square Flower Table Runner is stitched as a whole cloth quilt.

How would it look if it were stitched on a pieced quilt?

What if you added a floral or patterned fabrics in one of the sections?

Change the Color Palette

What if you changed it to a cool color palette?

Could you use the motifs in a border?

If your border is only four inches wide, would you stitch the alternating flowers or skip the flowers and quilt two rows of the Twist with a row of Silly Spirals in between?

 

 

Change the Motifs

What if we kept the basic framework and changed the motifs?

Would the Wagon Wheel work in the square blocks?

Christmas is Coming!

Christmas is just around the corner!

How would YOU create a Christmas table runner?

The Poinsettia tutorial can be found in More Free Motion Machine Quilting 1-2-3 page 38 and HERE.

And it would look great with the Candy Cane border (More FMMQ 1-2-3 page 39) 

Or try Mistletoe and Berries (More FMMQ 1-2-3 page 44)and HERE

A Challenge

Design your own table runner! Use YOUR favorite motifs and fabrics and create a table runner that suits YOUR quilting style!

OR….

Use the ideas YOU have learned so for to design a quilt top in YOUR collection!

Have fun with this! Keep it small (or not) to keep it fun!

Signed,

Your Favorite (?) Quilt Designer,

Lori Lagerfeld

PS…All tutorials, images and information are the property of Lori Kennedy Quilts and are intended for personal use only.  Feel free to re-blog, pin or share with attribution to LKQ.  For all other purposes, please contact me at Lori@LoriKennedyQuilts.com.  Thank you!

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6 responses to “Design Your Own Table Runner!”

  1. ireneshooter says:
    August 12, 2020 at 6:48 am

    I love these table runners!

  2. Cheri says:
    August 12, 2020 at 8:46 am

    These motifs will be fun to use if I can stitch them properly!

  3. Kathie Banks says:
    August 13, 2020 at 9:22 am

    The thing I love most about your quilting style is that they don’t have to be perfect to look amazing. Your simple motifs are suited to every degree of artistic talent. They can be easily adapted to fit in my piecing and give a hand made feel to my hand made quilts. I love to take off without much planning, and your doodle style quilting is my enabler. It’s not uncommon for me to springboard a whole new motif from your designs.

    1. WordPress.com Support says:
      August 13, 2020 at 8:22 pm

      Thank you! Your comments are music to my ears!

  4. worldpresscom986 says:
    August 13, 2020 at 12:53 pm

    The Wagon Wheel looks like organized stipple. Love its uniqueness.

    1. WordPress.com Support says:
      August 13, 2020 at 8:23 pm

      Lol! I can stipple after all!

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