Green Beer Table Runner Tutorial

GREEN BEER TABLE RUNNER

Last week my mom came from Iowa for a visit.  On the way to the airport we stopped at JoAnn's in Polaris.   Grace was begging for some decor that would represent her birthday March 16th. She knows St. Patty's Day is the 17th and so she & I picked out this cool green beer fabric from the seasonal section.  Elly my 2 year old picked the green fat quarter bundle to match (no joke).

I don't have very many holiday decorations for St. Patty's Day since I am German/English and my husband is Indian, however.....

 in the Spirit of St. Patty's Day.....

I created this Green Beer Table Runner and a tutorial for anyone else that may be interested in making one.

Gather all your Ingredients:

• 1.5 yards Green theme fabric for top and backing (14 X 50)

• Fat Quarter bundle of green coordinating prints or 5 different greens ~1 yard

• Batting at least 14 X 50 inches

• Varigated green thread

• general sewing/quilting supplies, rotary cutter, mat,pins, sewing machine etc.

St. Patty's Day Beer Tablerunner

10" X 50"

Cut the following:

G - beer print

 (3) 7.5" X 10.5"

(2) 3.75" X 10.5"

G1 - darker green

(2) 2.25" X 10.5"

G2 - dark green

(2) 2.25" X 10.5"

G3 - medium green

(2) 1.5" X 10.5"

(2) 1.75"  X 10.5"

G4- light green

(4) 1.5" X 10.5"

G5 - lightest green

(2) 1.5 X 10.5"

(2) 2.5 X 10.5"

• cut your pieces and arrange them to sew long sides together.

use this arrangement:

G4  G  G2  G4  G  G5  G3  G1  G5  G3  G  G3  G5  G1  G3  G5  G  G4  G2  G  G4

• I used my design wall and kept rearranging the strips to make sure I had the balance I started with.

• Here is the top pieced.

 • Note: I left the piece rectangular until the quilting was complete.

• layer your quilt top, batting and backing and quilt as you like....

• I used a varigated green thread and stitched 1/4 inch lines down the 50 inch length of the quilt.

• Here's another view.

• Once the quilting was complete measure one end of the top about 10.5 inches. 

 • Divided it by 2 and then measured over that far to find the center of the short end about 5.25 inches.

• Mark it with a pencil mark.

• Line up the ruler with the marked dot and the corner of second fabric row as shown in the picture.

• Repeat for the opposite end.

• Draw a pencil line here. It will be your sewing line for your binding.

• I made 2.25 inch binding for this project.

• Sew on the binding.

• Here's a close up.

• Once binding is sewn then trim the extra quilt fabric away.

• Flip the bindng and hand slip stitch to the back.

Enjoy!