Spring has sprung all over this quilted table runner!

Spring brings to mind fresh beginnings and making space for the new. Some might call this spring cleaning, but when it comes to quilting, I think of it as using up my stash. Giving familiar fabrics a new life and repurposing makes the job of tidying up more fun. This week I’m using the PFAFF performance icon to sew a spring table runner and to quilt it too!

The PFAFF performance icon has many features that make sewing easy and yet still precise, and throughout this week’s posts, I’ll share some of my favorites. I’ve come to realize I sometimes gloss over the built-in features that make using this machine so enjoyable, so I want to look at them in a little more detail.

Let’s start with a few fat quarters and some background fabric to make a fresh and happy spring table runner.

Fabric Requirements

• ½ yard background fabric
• 3 fat quarters
• ½ yard coordinating backing fabric
• batting

Cutting Instructions

From background fabric

(3) 2½” x length of fabric to make:

• (2) 2½” x 43″ long border strips, and
• (2) 2½” x 13½” short border strips
• (1) 14″ square – cut twice diagonally to make 4 side triangles
• (2) 7¼” squares – cut each square once on the diagonal to make 4 corner squares
• (2) 3½” squares for nine patches

With leftover fabric, cut and sew 2½” strips to make 126″ of binding

Focus fat quarter

• 9½” square
• (8) 3½” squares for nine patches

Fat quarter B

• (4) 3½” squares for nine patches

Fat quarter C

• (4) 3½” squares for nine patches

Make it scrappy for spring using mask fabric cutoffs

I couldn’t stop at just one table runner! I have lots of odd size scraps leftover from making masks. Instead of cutting them down to commonly used size scraps for my scrap bin, I’m using them to make a second table runner. Grab a ½ yard of some spring-inspired background fabric and mix up the rest of the pieces from your mask scraps.

Cut background fabric the same as for the Spring Table Runner

• (3) 2½” by length of fabric to make:
• (2) 2½” x 43″ long border strips, and
• (2) 2½” x 13½” short borders
• 14″ square – cut twice diagonally to make 4 side triangles
• 7¼” squares – cut each square once on the diagonal to make 4 corner squares
• 3½” squares for nine patches

 Note: For the scrappy table runner, I’ll sew 2½” wide strips from leftover mask fabrics together to make a binding strip that is 126″ long.

Focus square, cut 9½“ square.

From various scraps, cut 16 – 3½“ squares.

With the fabric picked out and cut, all that’s left to do now is sew it all back together! Of course, it’s more fun than that, and the PFAFF performance icon will make quick, precise work of this cheerful spring project. Join me tomorrow.

This is part 1 of 5 in this series

Go to part 2: How the PFAFF performance icon helps sewing on-point quilt blocks