Barbara’s Table Runners

I have a few beautiful table toppers and a runner to share with you today!!

My friend Barbara makes beautiful runners or toppers to donate for an auction to help support youth activities at her church. These lovely runners are the ones she donated last fall.

Fabrics and pattern for the first two are by Fig Tree & Company called Acorn Woods. These are the leaf blocks, and the next one are the acorn blocks from the same quilt pattern.

I used my 4” Circle2 ruler to quilt all these lovely curves. Scroll to the bottom to see my 4”/10” ruler. It comes in a set of 6 rulers, and the circles range in size from 2” to 13”. They are available in my shop. I also used an Edge ruler from my friend Linda at The Quilted Pineapple. She has my very favorite straight rulers.

I used 8020 cotton poly blend batting scraps for all of these toppers/runner, from Winline Textiles. Do throw those bigger scraps away, they are perfect for something like this. I used cream Omni thread from Superior Threads.

Here are those cute acorn blocks from the same Acorn Woods pattern.

With this one I wanted a variety of different textures for the quilting. To highlight the acorns, I quilted a variety of different lines, once again with one of Linda’s rulers. Including the simple x quilted in the center squares.

The Grassy background and Pebbles in the border are freehand designs that I teach in my Quilting It Freemotion course. Which is available on my website. If you’re hoping to learn how to freemotion quilt, let me help you!

I also used 8020 batting scraps and cream Omni thread for this one as well.

This lovely runner is a pattern by Kim Diehl. It’s called Hen House Stars.  Kim designed 8 beautiful mini quilts for the Simple Whatnots Club Collection and this is one of them. These are also Kim’s fabrics.

I used Linda’s Edge ruler again for all the lines.

I quilted all the petals and circles that are in the background freehand.

I used cream Omni thread from Superior Threads and another 8020 scrap leftover from one of her quilts.

This fun runner is called Fall into Autumn by Lindsey from Primrose Cottage Quilts.

I quilted my freehand Swirly Feather in the leaves, another design that I teach in my Quilting It Freemotion course, as well as the Stipple that I quilted in the background. I framed it with some ribbon candy in the inner border. If you’d like to have an inside peak at my course, check out this video.

I also used an 8020 batting scrap and Natural White Omni thread from Superior Thread.

I used my 4” Circle2 ruler again in the square border to create the beautiful orange peel petals. If you quilt, freemotion and haven’t started using rulers yet, I highly encourage you to give it a try. It will change everything for your custom quilting.

Here is the 4”/10” Circle2 ruler, yes there are two different sizes of circles in each ruler. They are sold in my shop in a set of six. They are made in America from 1/4” high quality acrylic.

Thanks for being in my little part of the quilty world!! Happy quilting, Leisha 💕