Whilst visiting local quilt teacher, Annie du Toit, last year, I saw an absolutely gorgeous runner on her table made in various shades of blue, arranged from light to dark. So, when I stumble across this free tutorial on YouTube, I was so excited to realize it was the same pattern. After surfing some more, I found this free pattern as well.
The video as well as the tutorial don't do this pattern justice though. Using 5 to 8 colors in shades from light to dark is the secret.
When our quilting group talked about possible projects for this year, I suggested this project. We all got to buying fabrics as getting 8 shades of a particular color locally, is rather a challenge. But by shopping around we manage to get our fabrics together.
All got busy cutting WOF strips and sewing 5 strip sets. As we used more colors than the pattern suggests, we cut our strips 1.5" wide instead of the proposed 2". At our first meeting in January, we cut and stitched the large triangles and started to lay out our runners and oh my word, they all turned out absolutely gorgeous. When we adjourned, all had to cut their small triangles and piece the top.
Today we added the backing and batting using the stitch and flip method to omit the use of a binding as there are quite a few corners. All that remains now is to quilt the runners and our first project for the year is all done. (Donna Jordan of Jordan Fabrics use the stitch and flip method on the majority of her table runners, so if unsure just watch this video.)
And now for the photo's...
First up is mine. I used 7 colors and the runner measure 1m across.
And in no particular order, the other group members runners.
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| Marietjie |
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| Angelina |
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| Elsa |
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| Rika |
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| Frances |
This was such a satisfying and extremely fast project which really went together super easy but looks very complicated.
