Do you remember the quilt that I made with the Mango Salsa Tonga Treats a couple of years ago? Well I had some left-over scraps, and when I was cleaning out my fabric boxes I thought they were too smal to do much with, but then I saw this pattern on the Fat Quarter Shop website called "Mini Charm Mix" and decided to make a new table runner. The scraps were trimmed into 2.5" squares and I was busy making lots of 4-patch units...
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...some of the seams are only a scant 1/4" but I was desperate to use every last scrap! I always use Schmetz Microtex needles size 60 when I'm piecing batiks, and I used a very fine Masterpiece thread in my machine too. There was lots of piecing and pressing and more piecing and more pressing and finally I had the top of the runner completed. Once the runner was pieced together, it was layered with a piece of backing fabric and some thin pellon polyester wadding. This was then quilted very simply in straight rows with a Gutterman Sulky variegated quilting thread, and I used the edge of the walking foot as a guide for quilting the rows...
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...a narrow strip of batik was then attached to the edge of the runner and machined into place, to be used as a single fold binding.. I stitched a label onto one of the corners on the back of the quilt before the final piece of binding was attached...
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...and here is the completed runner on my dining table. I've got a few scraps left, hopefully enough to make a similar runner for my coffee table - as my lounge diner is a large, open plan room, I like to use co-ordinating runners. Guess what I'll be sewing on my next day off!
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