Part 4 of 4 in our Sherbet Sparkle table runner series.
Basting, quilting, a trim and a binding. Here's the last stretch, and the finished table runner.
The top is pieced. What's left is the part that turns a quilt top into a table runner.
Baste the layers
Make your quilt sandwich. Backing face down, batting in the middle, quilt top face up on top. Make sure there is extra batting and backing on each side, as it sometimes shifts during quilting. Smooth each layer out from the center so nothing bunches underneath.
Then pin it. Curved safety pins every few inches, spread across the whole surface. It's what stops the layers shifting while you quilt.
Quilting
Decide how you'd like to quilt it. Parallel lines, serpentine stitch, free motion? I decided to do semi-free motion quilting through all three layers, following chalk lines I hand drew. Remove the basting pins as you reach them.
On this runner the quilting is a soft curved pattern that arcs across the triangles. It's a good choice here for two reasons. Curves play against all those straight piecing lines, adding visual depth while being forgiving.
Keep your speed and your hand movement roughly in proportion. Move too fast for the needle and you get long loose stitches. Too slow and they bunch up. Steady beats fast.
Trim it square
Once the quilting is done, trim the batting and backing flush with the quilt top and square up the corners. Ruler, rotary cutter, straight edges all round.
Bind the edge
The kit includes 140" x 2.5" of printed ombre binding, in the same color family as the top. You will need to cut it from the panel, sew the ends diagonally into one long strip. Then, iron the binding in half lengthwise, so it is 1.25" wide.
Line up the binding along the cut edge, so all the raw edges are facing outwards. Sew the binding to the front, fold it over the edge, and sew it by hand on the backside. Or, if you dislike hand sewing, you can sew it on the back, wrap it to the front and machine stitch it down.
If you've gotten this far with our tutorial, good job! You did it!
The finished piece
That's the whole build, from a printed panel to a finished runner.
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The full series
- Part 1: Materials list & Prep
- Part 2: Sewing: Magic 8 HST hack
- Part 3: Arranging the blocks
- Part 4: Quilting & Binding
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