No Pattern Necessary!! Donna's Prairie Points Runner Full Tutorial :)

hi i'm donna jordan from jordan fabrics today i'm going to show you how to make a table runner a table runner with prairie points all around the outside and this is made using charm squares i have all of these beautiful squares these are from hoffman they're 5 inch squares these have batik sand print mixed and all we need is two packages or 80 squares so grab your squares and let's get started sewing i'm going to use these pre-cut packages because they come with such a nice variety of prints but you can cut your own it's real easy to cut 5 inch squares of course the only problem with these free cuts is they come all fold it up so we do want to iron them nice and flat if i can even get it open we're gonna iron all of these nice and flat before we get started we are going to take 33 of these squares to make the table runner top it's going to be three by eleven rows so i'm going to just start laying these out and spread out the colors and not worry too much about what goes where but i like to have the colors kind of balanced i just don't want to get too too picky about it so i'm not going to want to put that there or even really close to it I'll put that farther down so lay your pieces three rows by 11 once you have the runner top laid out the way you like it you want to pick up the rows in order so you don't get anything mixed up when you're sewing them together so here's how I like to do it I am going to put these rope the robe on Row one here almost on top of itself so I've got them staggered just a little bit and I'm gonna put one pin in here then I'm gonna pick up the next row and put two pins and I'm gonna pick up the last row and put three pins and that will help me remember how to get these sewn together correctly here's another method I use to keep my rows in order this one here that was the top row right right corner then we've got the middle and then we've got the bottom so you can take these stickers these are just avery stickers they come right off so I will often label my stuff like this because I know I can get it off and that way if I get interrupted and I can't remember what my pins signified I can still get everything so directly I'm going to work with just one row at a time so what I'm gonna do here is I'm gonna leave the sticker on if you're not using stickers and you're just using pins unpin the row but put the pins back into this patch so you know where it's gonna go so this is gonna be on the far right that means I'm going to flip the whole thing over and I'm going to start with these two here so I'm just gonna make one whole row using quarter inch seams and then we'll make the next row in the next row and then we'll iron all of them with the seams going in opposite direction so I'm not going to worry about the seam allowances right now at all I'm just gonna sew all the blocks together so I'm just gonna set this row aside and I'm gonna go on to the next row again take those pins out and repin them in just this single piece and then see I can flip this over and that's gonna be the first piece and all these others are already right sides facing down which is how we want them so this process goes quite quickly here's all the rows sewn together now I'm simply going through iron the seam allowances on the bottom row all to my left so we can just push these all to one side and I'm going to keep the row straight it's kind of lined up on the bottom edge it's lined up parallel to the bottom edge of my cutting of my ironing board and once they're all facing that way I'm gonna flip it over and I'm going to slide it down this way because that makes those seam allowances they're facing that way so this is making sure they're laying nice and flat and then I'm going to steam press it now I'm going to avoid I'm going to avoid ironing the sticker here because that might make it too sticky right now it comes off pretty easily now since the seam allowances on this row are facing that way we want to iron these seams facing the opposite direction so I'm gonna flip this over but this time I'm going to want to iron all the seams in this direction so if you're good with your left hand you can take it down here hold it a little bit tight and they will just lay all to one side very quickly then again we'll flip it over and steam it now the last row it's gonna be the same as the first row so see these guys are facing that way so we want these seams facing that way I've got all three rows here and I've made sure I've got them in the right order so I'm gonna put this one aside for now and we're gonna stitch of these two together now since we have all of our seams ironed going in opposite directions it's gonna stitch up really flat and it's going to be really easy to match those intersections you can pin if you like but you can usually feel with your finger if everything is matched up there now when that stitching is done it really will help if you finger press this seam so we're just going to press it to one side so I'm just opening with my hands and drawing my fingernail you can use your fingertips if you want write down that seam it makes the ironing for the next it makes this the next step which is ironing makes it go easier if you finger pressed it first because we ironed each row and then we finger pressed these seams it's laying really fun I haven't even ironed it yet but it's really nice and flat now I've got everything in the right position so I'm going to take off my pegs take out my pins and then we will steam press it because even though it's laying pretty flat we want it extra flat now that the runner top is all done we're gonna make the prairie points so these are just made with the iron you take a 5 inch square fold it on its diagonal wrong sides together and then fold it one more time and that's all we have to do for each one of these squares it goes really fast and it'll make a really cute decorative edge for our table runner all the points are done so we're gonna move them over next to the runner here and we're going to pin these on so they're already in a pleasing color scheme here I just picked them up as they came so I'm not gonna do much switching around unless I get the exact same print so I'm gonna pin this on the edge here with the point pointing towards that corner and that one's gonna get pinned on then I'm going to go to the far corner and I'm gonna pin another one on in the very corner here then I'm going to take my long through here see how far I've got I think I've got about 45 inches so I'm gonna put the point of each prairie point three inches away so I want them overlapped a little bit so this is gonna go three inches away the next one three more inches and the only time I'm gonna switch up squares or points is if I get one that's exactly that color so I probably won't put this one right there but other than that I'm just gonna take them in the order that they come in lining up the edges right along the edge of the runner now this last point is gonna go here pointing at the six but I want to tuck it under this guy so each one of these is overlapping and I don't care which way it's facing I don't care if it's got the single fold this way or the double fold it doesn't matter to me but I just want them all even leave three inches apart now I'm going to pin it and I'm going to stay stitch along just this one side a little less than a quarter inch I just want these all anchored in place so I'm gonna put one pin in every point take it to the Machine and it's really easiest if you work with just one side at a time so I'm going to make sure that's pointing towards the corner of this Square and I'm lining everything up and I'm using slightly less than a quarter inch I just want to get everything anchored in place so I'm going to straighten up all the edges as I go and make sure they're all lined up now we will go and do the same thing on the opposite side I'm going to start at the opposite corner this time and work my way that way so they will be overlapped like this and if your runner turns out a little bit shorter or longer it's no big deal you can slide these down or a little bit closer I just find that if you measure it and divide back by whatever number of points you want to do you can get them kind of evenly spaced but if they're not perfect it's really not that big a deal both of the long sides are done and now we just need to do these short sides so let's we're gonna put this one right up against that guy there and we are going to put let's try a green one here this one right up against that guy and I think we'll have room for three more there so let's get some colors we haven't used and let's measure these see if they're about three inches I think they are so this one's gonna go here and this one's gonna go here and let me tuck them the way I want them tucked here so I want I think I want it the other way I want these ones going over yep now we'll do the same thing at the fart just one more side and we will be ready to put the batting and backing on now we need to pick out a backing and we need something that will look good against all those prairie points so let's go down to the retail store [Music] since this is made of boutiques and print I think I'm going to use one of our more solid looking boutiques the pink would be really really nice I like the pink let's see if we've got a blue see we've got a nice blue that would look good that would work that would be really pretty I think I actually like the blue the best yeah let's go with that one for this runner we're going to do what we call a flip finish so we're going to put everything right sides together we're gonna stitch around the outside edge here and we're going to flip it right side out so I cut the backing and the batting about 54 by 16 inches so it's just a little bit bigger than my top here and the top is right sides down all these peri points are tucked right in and I'm just going to pin around the edges so nothing moves now I'm going to stitch through all the layers so that's where our prairie points are inside there so I'm going to stitch right inside that stitching that we just did when we put the pair of points on I'm gonna stitch all the way around but I'm gonna leave about an 8 inch opening so I'm gonna start right here and I'm gonna back tack because I don't want my stitching coming and I'm going a little bit bigger than 1/4 inch just inside the previous stitch I pivoted at all the corners and I'm coming around where I started again so here is where I started I don't like to leave too big of an opening because it can get hard to close but I want to be able to get my hand in there easily so I'm gonna stop sewing about here and again backpack right there now we're going to trim off the excess batting and backing even with the top I usually use scissors for this step but if you want to put it on your cutting board and use your blade you can we also want to trim some of this extra bulk off here so I'm going to trim close to but not through my stitching where I put it front to back so do that on every corner now find your opening and just reach between the front in the back to the far end and grab some and just pull it right side out now it's all right side out but it's looking kind of lumpy so just put your hand back inside poke out the corners a little bit and these will lay flat because we'll be able to pull on those prairie points and then go to the far end again just poke it out with your finger a little bit there's tools that you can use to help poke this out but it does leg pretty flat because we trimmed to that extra bulk now just grab it by the prairie points and give it a little shape and start smoothing it out it lays flat very easily because there's a lot of bulk in the edge here and those seam allowances all want to make it lay flat so I'm gonna smooth it out here then I'm gonna flip it over and I'm going to smooth it from the backside and look at how nice those colors look against that pettite so I'm just hand depressing at it the weight and the heat of my hands will make this nice and flat we need to close up the opening here so I've got the backing folded and that is going to meet just beyond that stitching and I'm gonna stitch us on the sewing machine you can whip stitch it by hand there's some products you can use to iron this closed but I'm going to just put this under the machine and do a very narrow stitch all right it's all closed up and you can barely see that we used matching thread and it just mixes right in I'm going to just do the simplest quilting possible on this I'm going to stitch in the ditch along all of these seams here now if you can free motion quilt you can go ahead and do whatever design you like you can even put this on your long arm you can pin the Prarie points on and then you can have the long arm quilted but I really don't want to take away from any of the Patrick I just want to get everything anchored down so that if we wash it nothing will come apart so to go in the ditch I am just getting my needle as close as possible to that seam and just go slow and careful all the way down because it's got the batting in there the the ditch goes down and it kind of hides so you can't see it and the fabrics can just the fabrics can just be showing you not the stitching this way this was such a fun runner to make the concept is so simple so simple you might even think I wanna do something more complex but the look of it is just very satisfying I really like shaped runners something that has a little bit around the edge on my table I think it looks really good and this one it's actually reversible so if you are doing a fancy floral centerpiece you might want to put that on this side you've still got all the prints around the edge and you can see my quilting here it's just in these parallel lines it went really fast I don't think you can tell that I am near the ditch and not in the ditch in some places now the prairie points we used the charm squares in all the different fabrics but if you wanted to frame it with just one or two fabrics you could just alternate colors you wouldn't have to put all these different colors on it but this is really a fun runner this would be great if you're going to someone's house for dinner and you want to make them a small gift table runners are just perfect because this is a happy summary one but you can make them for any season they're just totally versatile and they don't take up any room so the recipient doesn't have to think of where am I going to put this in my house where am I going to store it so here's all the numbers you need I used 33 of the 5 inch charms in the top and it's a 3 by 11 block patchwork the prairie points I used 40 of them all around the edge so I used a total of 72 charms the backing 16 by 54 batting the same size and it finished about 17 by 52 inches really a fun fast project thanks for watching our tutorial today on the Prairie Pointe runner so let's see what you guys can come up with with your charm squares send us pictures we want to see your projects happy quilting

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Length: 21min 0sec (1260 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 06 2018