A surprising must-have feature on the PFAFF creative icon

All right, as if not needing to unthread the machine to make new bobbins wasn’t awesome enough, I have another great feature to talk about on the PFAFF creative icon.

This is something I would have never thought of putting on my wish list. Yet I was so HAPPY to see that the people at PFAFF have thought about it. How many of you have purchased BIG thread bobbins only to find out that they can’t fit on your sewing machine?  So we buy yet another gadget to carry around with our machine that holds the bobbins and feeds the thread to our machine. And how many times we end up with the adapter falling, or the peg breaking….

Well NO MORE! The creative icon comes with two different adapters: a thread cone holder and a large spool holder that allows to place big bobbins on your machine. The thread will never tangle! All my big bobbins fit whether they are for piecing or quilting!

Now let’s finish the table runner top!

Step 11

Stitch a background strip to your medium dark B3 strip.

Cut to make four (4) 2½” x 4½” rectangles.

Step 12

Cut from a background strip four (4) 2½” x 4½” rectangles.

Stitch a background rectangle to a Step 11 rectangle.

Makes four (4) 4½” squares.

Step 13

Stitch together the light D5 strip to the medium dark B4 strip.

Cut to make four (4) 2½” x 4½” rectangles.

Step 14

With the leftover strip, stitch a dark strip (A3) along the medium dark strip.

Cut to make four (4) 2½” x 6½” rectangles.

Step 15

Stitch a step 13 and step 14 rectangles to a Step 11 square.

Makes a 6½” square.

Repeat to make 4.

Step 16

Take the 1½” background strips and cut:

– four (4) 1½” x 6½” rectangle (R1);

– four (4) 1½” x 7½” rectangle (R2);

Stitch a R1 and R2 rectangles to a step 14 square.

Make a 7½” square.

Repeat to make four.

Step 17

Stitch two (2) Step 16 squares to your Step 10 center block.

Align the end medium dark squares from the smaller blocks to the dark squares of your center block.

Makes 1 irregular shape block.

Stitch one (1) Step 16 square to each Step 10 end block.

Makes 2 irregular shape blocks.

Stitch both end blocks to your center block.

Congratulations! Your table runner top is complete.

Now don’t forget to sandwich your piece and I’ll talk about quilting the piece tomorrow. And I’ll be able to place my large quilting spool on my machine thanks to the must-have adapters.