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.
PFAFF performance icon
Let’s start with a few fat quarters and some background fabric to make a fresh and happy spring table runner.
Quilted 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.
Mask scraps for Scrappy Spring Table Runner project
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