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Table Runner
Nicole Gneiting
Tutorial
• Instructions are for a table runner that is 14 ½” by 73” and has a ¼” seam
allowance.
• Be specific when cutting but don’t fret over these specific measurements
when you are sewing. This table runner is pretty hard to mess up and very
easy to alter! In the instructions, use the word “ABOUT” with this in mind.
Material :
Front : Cut (scraps of) fabric into 35 strips of 2 ½” by 16” for the front.
• I’m serious about scraps. I had left over strips of fabric from making
a patch-work quilt. There are 15 different kinds of fabric on my
table runner.
Front-
5. Place the 35 strips of fabric on the table and arrange the colors, patches
and strips according to how you want them arranged.
6. Start sewing the strips of fabric together hot dog style (sewing long sides
together). When all the strips are sewn together and you have cut the
rough edges even, it should be about 14 ½” by 70”.
7. Iron the seams open on the wrong side of the front material.
Back-
8. Iron ¼” under on both of the long sides of the thin middle strip for the back
of the table runner.
9. Pin the thin middle strip onto the center of the back material. There
should be about 8” on each side of the thin middle strip and sew right
next to the ironed edge (the long sides) leaving the top and bottom of
the thin middle strip open. Cut any excess fabric on the top and bottom
of the thin middle strip.
10. Iron ¼” under on all 4 sides of the back fabric.
Layering-
11. Place the back material with the sewn on middle strip, wrong side up on
the table.
12. Then center the lining on the back material. There should be about 1 ½”
of back fabric on each side of the lining and the top and bottom should
be the same measurements.
13. Place the front material (strips sewn together) right side up on top of the
lining and centered at the top and bottom (Lining and Strips should both
be 14 ½” wide.)
1 ½” 1 ½”
= right side
= wrong side 3”
3”
Appendix-
• You can make the length of the table runner longer (based on your table)
by adding more strips of fabric to the front material and cutting your back
and thin middle strip material longer (based on your table). You can also
make the table runner as wide as you want by cutting the strips of fabric
on the front of the table runner longer and your back material wider.
• You can also create whatever patch-work or size of strips you want for the
front design as long as it measures 14 ½” wide by 70” long.